Craft Works Distillery – Blak Soul Beast Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky 170ml 61%

The multi-award-winning, independent bottling that has tongues wagging Australia wide!

Details
170ml: 61%alc
Age: 2-years-old
Region: Capertee NSW
Cask type: American Oak/Port
Bottler: Craft Works Distillery
Distilled: October 2016
Bottled: October 2018
Individually numbered

Bottling Notes

We’ve finally released the beast on our virtual shelves, the ‘Blak Soul Beast’ to be precise, which is the second, stand-alone independent bottling from Craig ‘Crafty’ Field, owner and operator of Craft Works Distillery in Capertee, NSW.

For this bottling, Crafty sourced a 230 litre Barrique Vintage Port cask from a Mudgee wine-maker and had it reworked down to a deep char 100 Litre cask, a fitting vessel for his ‘Sydney-Distillery-sourced’ new-make spirit. The expression had already won a Silver Medal in the Non-Scotch category at the 2018 Independent Bottlers Challenge, without even been officially released yet. Now that’s one hell of an accolade in our books.

Crafty named the Whisky ‘BLAK SOUL BEAST’ because it’s dark as a black soul and was an absolute beast to manage during maturation. Keeping it in the family, his 8-year-old daughter designed the font and front label.

418 bottles were released of this 170ml expression as demand for the whisky convinced Crafty to bottle as many as he could in this smaller size so the whisky could be spread to as many enthusiasts as possible.