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Malt And New Make Spirit

New make spirit is essentially unaged whisky, the alcohol that runs off the stills before it is matured. Typically when you say the words ‘new make’ people think of Scotch but technically, new make can be any style of whisky. Americans call it white dog, moonshine, or white lightning. It is clear like vodka and is very strong without dilution. But don’t fall for the misconception that anything that distillers create is rubbish before it goes into the barrel.

New make is the closest you can get to whisky DNA, a spirit so packed full of character and a great cocktail ingredient with its own fascinating history. What distillers do before maturation has a huge effect on flavour and new make will demonstrate the impact of the choices they make in the production process, for example when it comes to grain selection, yeast strain, fermentation times, or still shapes. You can swap it for Pisco in a sour, vodka in a Bloody Mary, or even for whisky in certain serves, like a Highball.

Whisky distilleries are increasingly bottling new make, both because it gives new producers a chance to make some much-needed money and give people a glimpse of what’s to come while their whisky matures, but also because it provides fans a chance to see how the flavour profile the love is formed.

So, if you want to learn more about what makes the whisky you love taste the way it does or you just want to learn about one of the world’s most unrecognised and unappreciated spirit subcategories, then we suggest you pick up one of the bottles below.

Best Seller

New-Make Malt Spirit

50cl, 63.5%
Master of Malt

A bottle of completely un-aged New Make Spirit produced in Scotland, in copper pot stills, entirely from Malted Barley. No, we’re not going to tell you which distillery it’s from. Doesn’t matter how…  More info

New-Make Malt Spirit
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$30.52

Vit Hund

50cl, 46.1%
Mackmyra

Unaged new make spirit from Swedish distillery, Mackmyra. Find out the origins of their fantastic whisky with Vit Hund (which means White Dog in Swedish, as that's what the American bourbon pioneers…  More info

Vit Hund
1
$40.19

Strathearn Distillery The Heart New Make Spirit

20cl, 63.5%
Heather Rose Spirits

An impressive New Make Spirit from the Strathearn Distillery, which was acquired in 2019 by Douglas Laing! Produced from Maris Otter barley, under the watchful eye of head distiller Angela Brown,…  More info

Strathearn Distillery The Heart New Make Spirit
1
$19.29

Lindores Abbey New Make Spirit

20cl, 63.5%
Lindores Abbey

Lindores New Make Spirit is the creation of Lindores Abbey Distillery and is a reiteration of the first release in 2018 which sold out almost immediately. This is an intriguing spirit that hints at…  More info

Lindores Abbey New Make Spirit
$17.59

Holyrood New Make Spirit - Chocolate Malt

50cl, 60%
Holyrood Distillery

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…  More info

Holyrood New Make Spirit - Chocolate Malt
$33.56
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Lagg New Make Peated Spirit Drink

20cl, 63.5%
Lagg

Fancy a sneak peek at what Arran's sibling distillery Lagg is up to on the Isle of Arran? Though it may be a while before we see the distillery's whisky, it has bottled up some of its peated new make…  More info

Lagg New Make Peated Spirit Drink
$20.82

Cooper King New-Make - Pilot Series

50cl, 47%
Cooper King

Yorkshire's Cooper King Distillery has given us a little peek at what's going on with it whisky production by releasing a New-Make as part of the Pilot Series! Made with 100% floor malted barley, the…  More info

Cooper King New-Make - Pilot Series
1
$36.63

Rascally Liquor Peated Malt Spirit

50cl, 46%
Annandale

The Annandale distillery released its first whiskies (Man O'Sword and Man O'Words) in mid 2018, but at the same released its new make under the name Rascally Liqueur. Just like the whiskies, there's…  More info

Rascally Liquor Peated Malt Spirit
$27.46

Rascally Liquor Malt Spirit

50cl, 46%
Annandale

Alongside Annandale's first whisky releases (Man O'Sword and Man O'Words), the distillery in the Lowlands also released its new make! As with the whisky, there's a peated version and an unpeated…  More info

Rascally Liquor Malt Spirit
$25.42

Holyrood New Make Spirit - Crystal Malt

50cl, 60%
Holyrood Distillery

The Holyrood Distillery is showing off Edinburgh's history as a brewing city through a series of new make spirits featuring brewing ingredients. For this particular expression, a portion of the…  More info

Holyrood New Make Spirit - Crystal Malt
1
$33.56

Holyrood New Make Spirit - Brewer's X Distiller's Yeast

50cl, 60%
Holyrood Distillery

The Holyrood Distillery is giving us a peek behind the curtain of distilling new make spirit, showing off the impact that different ingredients can have on its flavour profile, as well as shining a…  More info

Holyrood New Make Spirit - Brewer's X Distiller's Yeast
$33.56

Kingsbarns New Make Spirit Drink (20cl)

20cl, 63.5%
Kingsbarns

While we wait for the Kingsbarns Distillery's whisky to mature, get a taste of their new make spirit! The plans for this new Scotch whisky distillery in Fife (rather near St. Andrews, with its…  More info

Kingsbarns New Make Spirit Drink (20cl)
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Bladnoch New Make Spirit

50cl, 63.5%
Bladnoch

Here is an exciting opportunity to try the wonderful work of the Bladnoch distillery in its rawest form! This New Make Spirit shows us what goes into the casks for maturation, to eventually become…  More info

Bladnoch New Make Spirit

Retribution Soundings New Make Spirit

70cl, 44%
Retribution Distilling Co.

After their impressive offerings of rum and gin, the folks at Retribution Distilling Co. down in Frome have ventured into the world of malt! This right here is a bottle of its New Make Spirit,…  More info

Retribution Soundings New Make Spirit

Holyrood New Make Spirit - Made By Edinburgh

50cl, 60%
Holyrood Distillery

The Holyrood Distillery is super proud of Edinburgh and its history as a brewing city, and to show that off, it has created a series of new make malt spirits featuring ingredients that are more often…  More info

Holyrood New Make Spirit - Made By Edinburgh

PUNI PURE Acquavite di Cereali

70cl, 43%
PUNI

From the PUNI distillery in the north of Italy comes an unaged spirit which has been made using three types of malted cereal.  More info

PUNI PURE Acquavite di Cereali

Glenglassaugh The Spirit Drink That Dare Not Speak Its Name

50cl, 50%
Glenglassaugh

Under the new ownership of Glenglassaugh, the future looks very promising. They released this new make to give us some idea of what kind of quality to expect in the future from the distillery (whisky…  More info

Glenglassaugh The Spirit Drink That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Glenglassaugh The Spirit Drink That Blushes to Speak Its Name

50cl, 50%
Glenglassaugh

The follow on from Glenglassaugh's "The Spirit Drink That Dare Not Speak Its Name". This "blushes" thanks to its six month ageing in Californian red wine casks. This is not whisky because it is less…  More info

Glenglassaugh The Spirit Drink That Blushes to Speak Its Name

Mature Your Own Kit

100cl, 63.5%
Mature Your Own

What’s all this then? It looks like lots of fun! (Because it is...) In this kit, you’ll find a 1 litre (well – one and a bit litres) freshly toasted American White Oak barrel of medium to heavy…  More info

Mature Your Own Kit
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Thompson Bros. Single Malt New Make Spirit

20cl, 60%
Dornoch

The Dornoch Distillery is giving us a peek into the future with its Single Malt New Make Malt Spirit! This new make is made with organic, floor malted Plumage Archer barley, and fermented for 7 to 10…  More info

Thompson Bros. Single Malt New Make Spirit

PUNI ALBA Acquavite di Cereali

70cl, 43%
PUNI

Matured for months in Marsala wine casks, this PUNI ALBA release is the middle ground in terms of maturation between the PUNI PURE Acquavite di Cereali and the PUNI ALBA malt whisky.  More info

PUNI ALBA Acquavite di Cereali

Highland Park New Make Spirit Drink 35cl

35cl, 50%
Highland Park

A very interesting thing to try, spirit straight off the stills from Highland Park, completely unaged and bottled at 50%. A very good new make, it must be said.  More info

Highland Park New Make Spirit Drink 35cl

Roughstock Black Label (cask 154)

70cl, 59.4%
Roughstock

Distilled December 2011 and bottled March 2014, this cannot be classified as a whisk(e)y on these here shores as it's under three years old. It is, however, some rather interesting cask strength…  More info

Roughstock Black Label (cask 154)

Cotswolds ‘Test Batch’ Series

60cl, 63%
Cotswolds

A box set of three 20cl bottles of new make malt spirit from the Cotswolds Distillery! As they wait for it to age for at least three years in oak casks (so it can legally be classified a whisky),…  More info

Cotswolds ‘Test Batch’ Series

Abhainn Dearg The Spirit Of Lewis

50cl, 46%
Abhainn Dearg

The Abhainn Dearg distillery is located on the the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, one of Scotland's Outer Hebridean islands. This is their new make, which is aged in Sherry casks for just a few…  More info

Abhainn Dearg The Spirit Of Lewis
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