Oak Ageing Barrel + White Pheasant Whisky Spirit

Description

Small handmade tabletop white oak ageing barrel with a wooden stand. With this 1 litre barrel you can age spirits such as whisky to give it a characteristic new flavour. Each barrel has a medium char which allows the contents to interact with the oak, leaving it with a smoother finish and the burned wood releases delicate new additional smokey flavours along with caramel and vanilla.

The oak barrel is available in 1 litre or 3 litre sizes.

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White Pheasant New Make Spirit

Cotswolds White Pheasant New Make Spirit provides an opportunity to try our Malt Spirit before it goes into cask, where it will mature into single malt whisky. Bottled at cask strength, it delivers tropical fruit notes of banana, pear drops, toasted oats and barley sugars.

Awarded Best English New Make Spirit at the World Whiskies Awards 2020.

Tasting Notes

Our New Make Spirit delivers tropical fruit notes of banana, pear drops, toasted oats and barley sugars.

The Finest Ingredients

Malt: Odyssey. We are committed to using only barley grown in the Cotswolds. 100% floor-malted barley.

Yeast: Two complementary varieties – Anchor and Fermentis – to ensure good yields and excellent fruity flavours.

Water: Village water supply – filtered, softened and demineralised before use.

Lovingly Crafted

Locally-grown malted barley is milled and then mashed in our 0.5-tonne mash tun, mixing the milled grain with hot water to produce worts. Yeasts are then added. We run the fermentation for more than 90 hours in order to generate plenty of fruity flavour compounds alongside the alcohol produced.

Then the distillations begin. First, in the wash still (Mary), and the second in Janis, our spirit still. In the spirit run, we only select a small section – the heart cut – which is taken unusually early in the distillation to capture the fruity notes and avoid the heavier, rougher elements that appear at the end of the run. The end result is a light, colourless, fruity new-make spirit which we’ve bottled at 63.5% ABV.