8 Wired Cask Strength Whisky

700ml | 56%

8 Wired's own, beer-inspired mark on whisky.

Instead of making a wash from pale distillers malt, they started with what can best be described as a porter; dark, chocolatey, malty and fermented with a Belgian saison yeast.

 After distilling this twice, they aged it in three different barrels:

First it spent a year in barrels that held 8 Wired's famed Imperial Stout, Bumaye.

Then it went into brand new, heavily charred American Oak barrels for two years.

Finally it spent three more years in Bourbon barrels that also held another Imperial Stout.

The finished result is a whisky that is rich and complex. Full of sweet, chocolatey notes from the barley and the stout barrels, layered with complex alcohols, esters and phenols from the fermentation and distilling. This is all rounded off by vanilla, coconut and caramel flavours from the oak.