Ailsa Bay

Ailsa Bay distillery is located on the same site as Girvan, in the Lowlands. It is a technologically advanced distillery with 16 stills, founded in 2007 by William Grant & Sons , mostly to reinforce its Maltwhisky production for blends like Grant’s and to allow for experimentation.

This specific expression (the first official release) was made with peated barley (“heavily peated”, they say: 21 ppm) during one of the two weeks each year that the distillery does peated runs. It was matured in four types of casks : refill American oak, first fill Bourbon, new oak and Baby Bourbon...