Region : Islay, Scotland
Alcohol : 50%
Volume : 700ml
Website : www.bruichladdich.com
Bruichladdich is located in the Islay production area in Scotland, UK. It is one of the nine existing distilleries on the island. It is now a whiskey owned by the French Remy Cointreau Group. brand.
Brady was founded in 1881 on the shores of Loch Indaal in the far west of Islay by three brothers, John, Robert and William of the Harveys. The Harvey family is an ancient whiskey family, operating two distilleries in Glasgow since 1770. Through John's design, Robert's construction and capital injection from William and other members of the family, the Brady Distillery was built and its design was state-of-the-art at the time. While most of Islay's distilleries grew out of farms, Brady's distillery was built using a new building material - concrete. In order to reduce human intervention, the distillery was built on a slope, allowing the wine slurry to flow directly into the distillation chamber using gravity, greatly improving the efficiency of wine making. In addition, a device to prevent collapse was installed on the distillation machine in the distillery. This was also Brady's innovation and was adopted by many distilleries in Scotland.
Unfortunately, before the distillery was built, William had a falling out with his two brothers, so William ran the distillery alone until his death in 1936. Over the next 40 years, Brady's was acquired several times and finally ceased operations in 1994. In 2000, a private investment group led by Mark Reynier of Murray McDavid purchased Brady's and used the brewing equipment from when the brewery was established. On July 23, 2012, the French Rémy Cointreau Group announced that it had acquired Brady for £58,000,000.
Today, Brady still uses much of the brewing equipment from its early days, including a Victorian Boby Mill and a lidless mash tun. The equipment ensures Brady can extract the sugar in a slower, gentler way. During the production process, Brady does not use electronic equipment. Every step is controlled by professional technicians, mainly using dipsticks and simple flotation devices for measurement. Brady believes that whiskey takes time to make, so they will never ignore the quality of the whiskey in pursuit of production efficiency. In terms of production raw materials, Brady only uses Scottish barley. After the malted barley is dried, it is ground in a burpee grinder. The burpee grinder is very precise and ensures that all the malt is grinded to a similar degree. After the malt is mixed with hot water, it will be placed in an uncovered mash pot and soaked for a long time to extract the sugar. The long natural soaking will produce a sweet and sticky wort. The wort is then transferred to wooden fermentation tanks for fermentation. The wood is able to absorb the heat generated during the production of alcohol, thus extending the time required for fermentation. This gives the whiskey unexpected purity and a more complex flavor. .
Brady owns two wash stills with a capacity of about 12,000 liters, two spirit stills with a capacity of about 11,000 liters and a newly purchased Lomond still. . Among them, the first four distillation machines are very tall pear-shaped distillation machines, and the newly purchased Rohmann-type distillation machine is adjustable. The amount of reflux liquor can be adjusted by setting the neck and Lane arm. The warehouse used by Brady to age whiskey is located on the shores of Lake Indal on the west coast of Islay. The climate here is cold and the air is humid, which prolongs the aging time of whiskey. During the long aging period, ozone from the Atlantic Ocean gradually penetrates into the whiskey. Oak barrels also play an important role in the aging process, so Brady attaches great importance to the selection of oak barrels. The oak barrels used for aging are mainly from the United States and Europe. American white oak barrels give the whiskey an intoxicating vanilla flavor, while the influence of European oak barrels is more subtle.
Although the brewing equipment used when it was founded in 1881 has been used, Brady has always insisted on innovation during the development process and strives to create unique high-quality whiskey. Some of the whiskeys released on Brady's official website are made from Scottish malt that has not been dried with peat, so they do not have the flavor of peat; while the rest of the whiskeys are complex and diverse in style, witnessing the development of Brady Continuous innovation and breakthroughs in the process.
