Edinburgh's Holyrood Distillery is proud of its home town's history as a brewing city, and is showing that off with a series of new make spirits which include ingredients that you'd be more likely to see in the world of brewing rather than distilling. For example, this expression features a portion of the distiller's malt replaced with chocolate malt (which is heavily toasted barley), and this helps to impart soft, roasty-toasty hints of coffee, caramel, and... Well, yeah, chocolate too!
Enjoyably bittersweet hints of dark chocolate and coffee beans, wrapped up in bold malty notes with a touch of peppery heat.
