Little Brown Dog North British 32 Year Old
Key Facts About This Whisky
Bottler: Little Brown Dog
Distillery: North British
Region: Lowlands, Scotland
Age: 32 years old
Distilled: 17/12/1992
Bottled: 18/02/2025
Spirit: Single grain scotch whisky
Cask Type: Five refill bourbon barrels
Alcohol by Volume: Cask strength, 44.2%
Bottled: Natural colour and without chill filtration
Outturn: 567 bottles
Bottle Size: 700ml
North British 32 Year old Tasting Notes
Colour: Polished brass.
Nose: Gooseberry, red current, pencil case.
Palate: Salted caramel, custard creams, Muscadet grapes.
Finish: Winter spiced poached pear and clotted cream.
About this Little Brown Dog release
Grain whisky works best once it’s had a good few years resting in refill wood. That length of time depends on the cask and the distillate but after about 25 years most grains switch on.
Because of the need for lengthy maturation times it usually means refill wood works best, allows that balance over an expended period without the wood dominating the beautifully oxidised and reduced spirit.
Andrew and Chris at Little Brown Dog created this small batch whisky from 5 refill bourbon barrels. When they were filled on the same day back in 1992 they’d have had 200 litres each in them. Fast forward to 2025 and after 25 years of evaporation and angles share there was less than 40 litres in some of these casks! All 5 were great, but after briefly contemplating 5 tiny single cask releases, Andrew and Chris did the sensible thing and vatted them together.
The North British Distillery is a big ole beastie of a distillery, producing 73,000,000 litres of pure alcohol a year from its three Coffey stills, that’s a lot, and quite ironic that there was so little of it in these casks…
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Dr Andrew Smith and Chris Reid