A GRAIN INNOVATION LIKE NO OTHER

Our Maverick theme continues into our month of Festival casks for 2023 with May’s Malt of the Month being one of our very special festival cask projects. A project that again breaks the mould of what flavour can do, and showcases how the SMWS isn’t your ‘usual’ independent bottler.

For our Festivals month Malt of the Month, we proudly welcome a whole new code to the SMWS. Essentially G16.1, this first-ever grain project was distilled by the SMWS at a distillery in Glasgow in 2016. As our whisky creator Euan Campbell says, “Our goal was to make a ‘bourboninfluenced’ single grain whisky here in Scotland. The internal name used for the project was G52, only because the distillery postcode is G52 4XB. We decided to bottle at 50% as a nod to ‘bottled in bond’ prodcuts in the US. In terms of category, it falls under single grain Scotch whisky. The last grain distillery number is G15, hence this is G16.”

This rare release, G16, has a mashbill of 58% maize, 21% malted barley, and 21% un-malted rye. Kai, Euan, & Phoebe on our team worked closely with this new distillery to produce this unique offering, which was distilled in column stills (as opposed to pot stills). The spirit was then filled into custom-specified new oak barrels from the Kelvin Cooperage in the US with a #4 heavy char, 24-month air-seasoned oak with toasted heads.

What does

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mean for the end product? We end up with a custom project, made by the SMWS from day one, and finally presented as a Festival offering to celebrate the absolute explosion in the Lowlands spirit scene. Truly thick, charred, sweet and biscuity cask strength grain whisky to celebrate our Festivals month. Dig in! Limit one per member.

Available first Friday on the 5th May at midday AEST, and only through smws.com.au/shop.