Blas (Blog)

What is so special about IWA DIPLOMA week?

WATER – thinking about the Water Table and how much water can be extracted by you – but in good relationship to the requirements of other beings around.

POWER – how much electrical power is required to run your plant, your distillery? How can this be generated? Have you designed your building in such a way that it requires very little power to run it, or is this something you have not even considered.

Have you considered that “resources” are no such a thing – that they are actually Gifts from Nature, and we should be grateful for every drop of water and Robin feather that comes our way.

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Bruichladdich Islay Barley 2014 Tasting Notes

Damp green vegetal barley, like in the malt barns when the floors are first laid down with grain. 
White nougat. Lovely tingle into the nose.   The essence of warm sand dunes. And the sweet fleeting aroma of white candy floss.   Honey and ripe bananas.

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