How do you recreate the whisky of the past?

Turn to the distilleries of the future.

In the first chapter of James Eadie's Project 1927, Dave Broom and Alan Winchester interview Alex Bruce and Scott Stewart, Managing Director and Production Manager of Ardnamurchan Distillery, about how they approached recreating a 1920s style whisky based on the book The Distillation of Whisky, 1927-1931.

0:00 - Intro
1:06 - First impressions after seeing the book
3:19 - Recording history using the Blockchain
5:24 - Thought process behind Ardnamurchan's Project 1927 spirit
7:00 - Challenges of using barley, yeast & processes of 100 years ago
9:37 - Differences with normal Ardnamurchan spirit
12:22 - Would Ardnamurchan do this again?
14:19 - Impact of Storm Babet
16:19 - Insight gained into experience of past distillers
17:17 - Why is interest in old production methods increasing?
23:45 - Regionality and reviving flavours in Scotch whisky

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.