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Little Brown Dog Glen Garioch 10 Year Old


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Key Facts About This Whisky

Bottler: Little Brown Dog

Distillery: Glen Garioch

Region: Highland, Scotland

Age: 10 years old

Distilled: 17/11/2014

Bottled: 17/02/2025

Spirit: Single malt scotch whisky

Cask Type: Two first fill bourbon barrels

Alcohol by Volume: Cask strength, 56.2%

Bottled: Natural colour and without chill filtration

Outturn: 337 bottles

Bottle Size: 700ml

Glen Garioch 10 Year old Tasting Notes

Colour: Bright gold.

Nose: Pear tarte, kiwi, baked apple.

Palate: Tinned pineapple, honeydew melon, rhubarb crumble.

Finish: Crème anglaise, conference pear, white pepper.

About this Little Brown Dog release

Andrew and Chris at Little Brown Dog have waited a long time for the right Glen Garioch to release. It’s their most local distillery and they really wanted to do it justice.

Quickly becoming recognised as the “Springbank of the North East”, and not just because Andrew and Chris keep telling people this because they’ve got loads of it in their warehouse…. Glen Garioch now operates its own floor maltings and the wash still is direct fired. While this makes almost no economic sense for a global distillery company such as Beam Suntory to reinstate these features, it makes whisky fans really happy to see it.

It’s also unusually situated, right in the centre of the village of Old Meldrum, surrounded by houses and really tucked away so that lots of people will drive past and miss it.

This small batch release is nearly a single cask. It’s made up from one 1st fill bourbon barrel that is just epic, and a wee 40 litre dribble of a cask remnant from a private bottling of its equally epic sister cask.

Just means there’s a little more of this tropical fruit bomb beauty to go around, this can only be a good thing. Just 337 bottles though for the entire planet earth. Thick, tropical whisky, absolutely delicious.

Little Brown Dog Glen Garioch 10 Year Old
Little Brown Dog Glen Garioch 10 Year Old Sale price£79.95
Chris Reid, Little Brown Dog Spirits
Dr Andrew Smith, Little Brown Dog Spirits

Meet The Founders

Dr Andrew Smith and Chris Reid

Little Brown Dog Spirits was founded by Dr Andrew Smith and Chris Reid. They run an independent bottler and micro-distillery based in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

They take their name from Andrew’s beloved dog, whose nickname was the little brown dog. She followed him everywhere on all his distillery visits and was his constant companion. She passed away in 2022 aged 15 but lives on in spirit. Two more little brown dogs, Winnie and Peedie joined the team in 2020 and 2023.

Chris and Andrew started Little Brown Dog in 2018. Based on Chris’s farm they combine a passion for their surrounding area with in-depth knowledge (read intense geekery!) of distilling and cask maturation.