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What kind of whisky casks are there?

Maturing whisky in casks Over the last couple of years we’ve been bottling a greater variety of casks, not just in terms of which distilleries they come from but also the ‘type’, or size, of cask. ...

What is whiskey made from?

What is whisky made from? Effectively, whisky is made from three ingredients: water, yeast and some kind of cereal. That’s the short answer, but it’s actually a bit more complex than that because d...

How To Taste Whisky?

Had plenty of tastings so far with all kinds of audiences but the question is always constant: “How do you taste and understand whisky?” Grab your whisky bottle and a good nosing glass (preferably ...

Whisky clubs: 5 best monthly whisky subscriptions

Christmas is here so we've decided to help you and picked 5 of the best monthly whisky subscriptions in 2021 that give you an easy way to try unique whisky every month, delivered to your door.

Why are they shaking whisky bottles?

Ever been at a whisky festival, seeing someone shaking the bottle saying "I am checking if it really has higher alcohol strength as the label says"...Yes it did happened to us. But as it turns out...

When is a whisky ready to bottle?

One of the questions we are commonly asked is how we decide when a cask is ready to bottle, as well as how we go about finding ‘good’ casks in the first place. The fact that prices of casks have b...

What is New Make Spirit?

Whisky is what happens when you put new make spirit into a barrel and wait. If it’s scotch, that means taking new make and putting into an oak barrel for at least three years. But what is new make ...

How Water Makes Your Whisky

In this article we look at how water is involved in each stage of the distillation of whisky, what kind of water is used, and why it matters.

Investing in whisky

"Unique spirits, bottled one cask at a time" This is our mission and what we work towards on a daily basis. At heart, The Single Cask is an independent bottler, but as we’ve discussed previously th...

What does an independent whisky bottler do?

“So what do Independent Bottlers do, exactly?” Not an uncommon question for an independent bottler, and to be honest our answer to some degree is “not a lot…”. Our philosophy goes beyond just choos...