How do you recreate the whisky of the past?

Turn to the distilleries of the future.

In the fourth chapter of James Eadie's Project 1927, Dave Broom and Alan Winchester are joined by Simon Thompson & Euan Christie, Director of Distillation & Distillery Manager at Dornoch Distillery, to discuss the journey of making 1920s-style whisky, based on the book The Distillation of Whisky, 1927-1931.

0:00 - Intro
0:57 - First impressions from the book
3:27 - Ethos behind Dornoch Distillery
5:41 - 'Maturing' the yeast - a secret of old-style whisky making?
7:57 - Specs of Dornoch's Project 1927 spirit
11:37 - Manual cut points and importance of human decisions
14:21 - Choosing and crafting flavours in whisky distillation
16:35 - Importance of intuition to 1920s distillers
19:19 - Impact of cloudy worts on spirit
23:35 - Potential impact of Project 1927 on the industry - and why making 1920s-style whisky is so challenging!

The Distillation of Whisky, 1927-1931 is available to purchase exclusively from Royal Mile Whiskies: https://www.royalmilewhiskies.com/the...

Purchasers of the book will receive early access to Project 1927 spirit ahead of the general release.