Furneaux Distillery Co. ‘Sawyers Bay’ Batch UB2 Ex Bourbon Unpeated Single Malt Whisky 700ml 45%

The second unpeated ex-bourbon cask expression and the distillery’s very first single cask that yielded 168 bottles.

Details
700ml: 45%alc
Age: 3-years-old
Region: Flinders Island, TAS
Bottler: Furneaux Distillery Co.
Cask Type: 100L Bourbon
Batch No: UB2
Release Date: 22nd of December 2022
Individually numbered

Description
Already sold out at the distillery, this second expression was made with 100% unpeated Tasmanian Pilsner Malt and aged in a single 100L American Oak Ex-Bourbon Cask for a touch over 3 years and then bottled at 45% ABV. It’s the distillery’s first ever single cask whisky.

Distiller Tom Ambroz comments;
“After maturation this whisky was decanted into a stainless-steel vat and we began aeration and dilution trials on the liquid and found the whisky tasted best at 45% ABV, so we started adding water from our coastal rain tank in small increments during further aeration until we rested on the final bottling strength. As always, our whisky is non-chill filtered, so we let it sit and rest as the fatty flocculent sank to the bottom, then racked off the spirit and bottled it”.

The Furneaux Distillery Co. ‘Sawyers Bay’ offering pays tribute to Sawyers Bay, the home of Furneaux Farm and the bond store where this unpeated single malt once rested on railway beams laid across an earthen floor. It’s there where the full force of the westerly-winds whip across the land and sea giving the old casks character and depth.