All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
A series of new Kilchoman bottlings for the Japanese market, which had already been bottled in November 2023, have now only been released in Japan in April 2024 due to the long transport routes. In addition to some single cask bottlings – a 12-year-old fully matured bourbon cask and a Kilchoman aged for almost 8 years in a refill Pedro […]
Read moreKilchoman has now discontinued its series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, which was only renamed Triskele Casks in mid-2023. Reason enough for us to honour the series, which was launched in July 2019, once again in detail in an overview article. Kilchoman pursued several objectives in 2019 with the series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, which […]
Read moreTo mark its 50th anniversary, German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen has now announced “The Sister Casks – A Maturation Journey”, a new series of Kilchoman single cask bottlings. The six releases consist of three pairs of “sister cask bottlings”, i.e. two casks that were filled on the same day and then stored side by side in the Kilchoman warehouses […]
Read moreFive new Kilchoman single cask bottlings have now been announced in the USA for 2024. The very active US importer ImpEx Beverages is continuing its renowned Cask Evolution Series with two new bottlings. No. 01/2024 is a 15-year-old Oloroso sherry cask full maturation. The whisky was initially matured for just over 12 years in an Oloroso sherry butt and was […]
Read moreAfter malting and kilning and before mashing, the barley malt must be ground in a special grain mill after a certain resting period. Like many Scottish distilleries, Kilchoman uses a time-honoured Porteus Mill, which was bought second-hand from a brewery in England and installed in 2005 in a small separate room behind the malting floor, to the side of the […]
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