Dalry M*** is back
get yours now
New and improved, but exactly the same.
Remember last year when we released an April Fool’s bottling that turned out to be a real thing you could actually buy?
Well it turns out that a certain chocolate company happened to have a bar which they thought looked a bit similar, so they asked, if it wouldn’t be too much of an inconvenience, if we might possibly consider stopping selling our bottle, right fucking now.
They were actually terribly decent about the whole affair, but the thing is, the whisky didn’t do anything wrong, and you guys loved it, so we decided to make a few tweaks to the packaging and re-release it in new livery which couldn’t possibly be mistaken for chocolate of any kind.
We’d like to introduce you to the new and improved Dalry M***.
(It’s exactly the same liquid, just a year older).
45.4% • 70cl
This is a single grain whisky from the North British Distillery in Edinburgh. If you know single grain whisky, you understand to expect something sweet, creamy, and rich.
This 16 Year Old Scotch takes things up a notch after spending time maturing in a 2:1 combo of oloroso and palo cortado sherry casks. Oloroso brings hazelnut, dried fruit notes, while palo cortado adds almond and citrus peel elements.
Together, they do something extraordinairy. The whisky becomes a chocolatey treat, one that evoked certain memories for our whisky maker Sam Simmons. Learn more below...
Creamy notes of condensed milk, buttery flapjack, and Rich Tea biscuits, with hints of milky Coco Pops and burnt brown sugar.
Sweet layers of burnt sugar and vanilla cream, fudge, milk chocolate, tinned peaches and pears.
So creamy, so chocolatey, with nutty cereal, rice pudding, gently warming ginger, and toffee pennies.
This one starts in Edinburgh. Before odour control towers and planning regulations tidied everything up, Gorgie and Dalry carried the scent of production. Malt. Yeast. Warm cereal sweetness drifting through the streets.
Sam Simmons remembers it well.
When our head of whisky production tasted this single grain, it took him straight back. Not to a brand. Not to a product. To a place. This is his version of that memory.
For decades, no one walked the streets of the Gorgie and Dalry area west of Edinburgh, instead, they floated upon the scents of malt and yeast wafting from the North British distillery (or the old Caledonian Brewery). One fateful day in 2009, presumably when it had cleared its to-do list entirely of social and economic issues that needed dealing with, the local council mandated that the distillery had to install an odour control tower to mitigate those mouthwatering smells.
This whisky is a loving tribute. Yes, it might be 1 April, but that just happens to be our Dalry M*** anniversary.
You love this whisky, and we enjoy it when you show us that love. We will share your snaps and spread the good cheer right here. Points to the best picture. But no actual prize. The whisky is reward enough, no?
