Dilution makes it more herbal - dried herbs and herbal toothpaste
eucalyptus and dried heather
On the taste we ordered a "hauf and a hauf" (normally a glass of whisky and a half-pint of beer) but this time Belgian style grain based jenever and a wheat beer
dry heat on the palate neat like a spiced Simnel cake (light fruit cake made with fragrant spices
Light oil and burnt hazelnuts introduced maritime character as lobster nets combined with fish boxes on the shore
Cask No. 53.355 10 years and under Dilution makes it more herbalCask No. 53. 355 The beast from the yeast Islay The brilliance of white, hot peat coals, a blizzard of hot smoked fish and then squid ink, oyster sauce, singed hessian cloth and molten marmite smoothies. A heady brew of cow fields and gusts of pin sharp, slicing, petrol driven minerality. With water, the salty teardrops flow. Briny, tartly citric, hyper fresh coastal aspects and things like soggy kelp, rock pools and the sharpness of flint smoke. The