February is all about filling casks. For most of the month we have been filling into Refills, which happen to be our own.
These are the previous fresh casks we filled into and, since they were only used for about three and a half years, they still have a lot of life to give. We are confident in using them again; but obviously maturation in them takes a little longer. We have time to wait !
The new malt – or rather, malt from a new maltsters – is doing just fine. I cannot stress enough how important it is to us to use malt made from barley that was grown in fields that can be viewed from the distillery.
Last year, you may well remember, we did an Organic Malt run and this year we plan to use a different malt, with plenty of local regionality. This malt has probably not been used in Fife for many years, but is more than likely the strain the monks would have been sowing and growing in MCDXCIV.
Again, more to follow as we continue on our Journey to make the best Single Malt Scotch Whisky we can!
Slàinte
Gary Haggart
Distillery Manager
