One of the benefits of Lochlea’s position as an independent distillery is our ability to experiment and collaborate with other like-minded brands. When we discovered Overtone, one of Glasgow’s best craft breweries, was on the hunt for whisky casks to mature their first-ever double mash stout, we couldn’t turn down the opportunity.
Lochlea gifted the brewery with the cask makeup of our core expression, Our Barley: three bourbon barrels, two STR barriques, and one Oloroso sherry butt. The brewery matured their double mash stout in these casks for six months, after which they were returned to Lochlea.
Upon their return, our production team filled each stout-seasoned cask with our core expression, Our Barley, for one year. From these, our team at Lochlea selected three casks to be married together, resulting in our first-ever ‘Stout Cask Finish’. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.