Triple Distilled Peated Malt 25ppm Cream Sherry Cask

132.3 litres | Cask 395159 | Distilled 19.12.2022 | Bond Code CW000751

About Our Cream Sherry Casks

These small 130-135L casks have been cut down from larger Butts that were used to mature cream sherry. They have a lot more activity within the wood than standard casks, making them suitable for accelerated ageing and early bottling. 

Cream Sherry casks are now rarely seen in the whiskey world, although they used to be a lot more common. The style is usually made by sweetening a base Sherry such as Oloroso with sweeter PX or Moscatel Sherry. However some styles such as Pale Cream are made 100% from the Palamino Fino grape.

Ireland might not have had many peated whiskeys for a number of decades but with the main fuel source in Ireland going back centuries being turf it only seems natural that a number of Irish Whiskeys would have been peated in style. Already, there have been a number of peated single malts released from the Great Northern Distillery including our very own Celtic Cask Fiche A Cuig. Despite its youth, it's an excellent whiskey. In our opinion, young peated whiskey is better at masking its youth over unpeated equivalents. The malt used is 25ppm Phenol (lower than the 55PPM previously used at Great Northern), but this gets reduced by the Triple Distillation in the final spirit.

Triple Distilled Peated Single Malt Production

Great Northern Distillery source Irish barley which is malted in Ireland with the barley being dried by turf/peat smoke. The PPM level is 25 at this stage. The grains are wet milled, breaking open the grains to form a grist. Mashing is when this grist is mixed with hot water in the lauter tun which then turns the starch into a sugary liquid called wort. The wort is then converted into a beer-like liquid once yeast is added. The yeast converts the sugar into alcohol and it's now called wash. The wash is then triple distilled in Great Northern’s giant copper pot stills. The spirit is put into cask at 63% ABV and on this occasion will be casked in a first fill American Bourbon barrel.