Product description
Bere Barley is an old, six-row, small-grained barley that has never found favour with farmers and distillers due to both low yields and poor distillation efficiency (Bruichladdich averages 400 litres of spirit per tonne of barley, compared to 320 litres for Bere). Bruichladdich Distillery began experimenting with Bere barley in 2006. The whisky featured here was distilled in 2011 from barley harvested the previous year from five Orkney farms – Quoyberstane, Muddisdale, Weyland, Watersfield and Westermill – and bottled at 50% abv after 10 years of maturation in fresh American whiskey casks, mainly Jack Daniel’s and Jim Beam.
Nose : fresh and floral, apple blossom, geranium, oatmeal, apricots, lime jam, vanilla, melted butter, yeast cake, milk chocolate, mint leaf and oak.
Taste: slightly oily, vanilla, honey, milk chocolate, apricots, mirabelle plums, pink grapefruits, wholemeal bread, a mixture of dried herbs and delicate mineral and oak notes.
Finish : long, with notes of salty breeze, vanilla, brown sugar, greengages, gooseberries, white pepper, a pinch of anise and oak.