Flagship Whiskey Batch 8 (but make it Peated)

With Batch 6, we were like…”okay, so this batch is a bit of an outlier”. And to some degree, it was. Batch 8 is without exception, yet we still felt it was appropriate to put into our standard bottle - just with a black wax dip instead of the white wax dip. Because it is smoky. Like - A LOT of smoke while at the same time not in the way that you have grown to love or hate. This is not polarizing smoke. This is not acrid, phenolic, creosote and bandaids smoke such as with Laphroaig or Lagavulin. This is warm savory/sweet combination delicious smoke.  We made a beer from one of my very favorite malts on the planet, Bairds Heavy Peat. It comes to us from Scotland (!!!), where the peat smoke is infused during the kiln drying of the malt. Then, instead of going into a used bourbon barrel or sherry cask as would be the obvious play, we put the spirit into New American Oak (NAO) casks. This is actually the first peated whiskey that I have ever had that was aged in NAO. The new, heavily charre