Guide to Whisky

Why are they shaking whisky bottles?

Why are they shaking whisky bottles?

Ever been at a whisky festival, seeing someone shaking the bottle saying "I am checking if it really has higher alcohol strength as the label says...

What's the best whisky for the summer

Just like wine or beer, whisky has different flavour profiles that you can match to different seasons. We tell you what the best kind of whisky for...

Top 5 best whisky cocktails for the summer

In this article we're going to give you our top 5 best whisky cocktails for the summer - and there's not a Highball or Old Fashioned in sight!

Should You Have Whisky with Ice this Summer?

Should you add ice to whisky this summer? It’s one of the most controversial questions of our age: ice in your whisky; nuclear disarmament; jam or ...

The oldest ever English Whisky bottled by The Single Cask

Article By Sorren Krebs It is truly a very exciting time for English whisky scene. It is the dawn of a new era, it is the birth of a new industry ...

When is a whisky ready to bottle?

One of the questions we are commonly asked is how we decide when a cask is ready to bottle, as well as how we go about finding ‘good’ casks in the ...

Secret Spirit's Rum's Revenge tasting set

Top 5 Father's Day gift ideas!

Our top five gift ideas for whisky loving dads on Father's Day 2021.

Why Cask Strength Whisky is the Perfect Gift

Why Cask Strength Whisky is the Perfect Father's Day Gift

Cask strength whisky goes straight from the barrel and into the bottle. Distilleries often add water before they bottle their single malt whisky. ...

What is New Make Spirit?

Whisky is what happens when you put new make spirit into a barrel and wait. If it’s scotch, that means taking new make and putting into an oak barr...

How Water Makes Your Whisky

In this article we look at how water is involved in each stage of the distillation of whisky, what kind of water is used, and why it matters.

Investing in whisky

"Unique spirits, bottled one cask at a time" This is our mission and what we work towards on a daily basis. At heart, The Single Cask is an indepen...

What does an independent whisky bottler do?

“So what do Independent Bottlers do, exactly?” Not an uncommon question for an independent bottler, and to be honest our answer to some degree is “...