Illegal Shipyard Riot, 13 years old

Illegal Shipyard Riot, 13 years old

The 27th release from Dramfool is bourbon matured 13 year old Islay Single Malt Whisky.

This whisky is from a well known Kildalton distillery famous for exporting into the United States of America during Prohibition because of its medicinal characteristics.

The whisky was matured in a bourbon barrel and bottled un-chill-filtered at cask strength of 56.7% yielding 211 bottles.

Tasting Notes

Nose neat: TCP, Elastoplast, Germolene, pencil sharpenings, peat smoke, smoked fish, a hint of polished leather, new car smell, burning heather twigs.

Taste neat: Initially sweet with a spicy pepperiness, fizzy with a briny saltiness, medicinal (Germolene again), kelp on the shore, charred wood, salty sea shells, peaty and savoury.

Nose diluted: The peat and smoke is vastly reduced, quite viney (tomato leaves), salty shoreline, charred sticks, creamy with a slight hint of Germolene, smoked haddock poached in milk.

Taste diluted: Sweeter, with Coal Tar soap, sherbet - but far less fizzy than when neat, burnt twigs, Germolene, Muscovado sugar, salty smoked haddock in a rich Cullen Skink.