Say Hello To The Peak District’s First Whisky Distillery

Say Hello To The Peak District’s First Whisky Distillery

For those who have been following our journey, you will know what a momentous day the 28th of September 2019 was for us as a business. We released our first single malt (12-month aged spirit) to a select group of Temperance Club members.  This date is also significant for Derbyshire and the Peak District, as we made history in launching the first single malt ever distilled here from the region’s first whisky distillery!

For our first annual Temperance Day celebration we invited members down to the distillery to collect their first bottle (the first of ten bottles for many). The bar was open all afternoon with samples of the bottled spirit, and obviously featuring our Shining Cliff gins along with some of the local beer that has inspired our single malt spirit.

The whole of our distilling team were on hand during the afternoon to give our members unique access to the distillery and the inside track on our whisky-making process, from barley through to casking. We held a series of 20-minute sessions to dive a bit deeper into malting, milling, mashing, fermentation, distilling and maturation. We even had a go at de-constructing and rebuilding one of our casks to show people what a charred cask looks like on the inside. The event finished with a group toast and tasting to close out the day.  For some of our members, this was the third time they had met as a group at the distillery and it was a great opportunity to catch-up and share progress and general interest in whisky .

The 28th of September 2019 marks the first significant step towards a general release of a 3 year-old malt whisky towards the end of 2021.  We expect to bottle a limited edition of 5,000 bottles and demand for this yet-to-be-released single malt is already high.

If you would like to find out more about what we do at White Peak Distillery, then sign up to join us for a tour of the distillery where alongside our copper whisky stills you will meet ‘Betty’ our 600 litre spirits still used for our award-wining Shining Cliff Gin. You will also learn about the vision that drove us to set up the very first whisky distillery in the Peak District.

 

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