Bruichladdich Whips Up A Special Blend On Burns Night

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jan 26th 2006 at 10:04AM

Wine International reports that the Bruichladdich Distillery celebrated Burn's NIght (the anniversary of the birth of poet Robert Burns) in a unique way this year. The distillery created a special distillation using an ancient form of barley known to Burns as ‘Bere.' The distillation process was shown live on the Bruichladdich website webcams. Twenty acres of the barley, which fell out of use in the 18th century, were planted on Islay in spring of 2005 and harvested. They will make 25 casks of whisky which should yield ten thousand bottles for sale when the whisky matures in 2016.

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