Single Malt Pinnacle Yeast 'Full Cask' No 582
⏳ Drinking Window
As a distilled spirit, this single malt is bottled at its peak maturity and does not age further in the bottle; it can be enjoyed immediately upon release or savored over many years.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
dark chocolate, blue cheese, smoked salmon
✨ Technical Specifications
Holyrood Distillery's experimental ethos is beautifully captured in their yeast trial releases, such as those utilizing Pinnacle yeast. Located in Edinburgh, a city with a rich but long-dormant distilling history, Holyrood bypasses traditional Lowland conventions. Instead of light and grassy spirits, they explore how different yeast strains, specialty malts, and heritage barleys influence flavor. The Pinnacle yeast trials focus on how this specific distilling yeast interacts with their wort to produce distinct ester profiles, resulting in a spirit with remarkable depth, fruitiness, and complexity. Cask No 582 represents a singular snapshot of this innovative liquid journey, matured in a hand-selected cask that highlights the distillery's flavor-first philosophy.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 2019 by Rob and Kelly Carpenter alongside former Macallan master distiller David Robertson, Holyrood Distillery marked the return of single malt whisky distillation to central Edinburgh after nearly a century of absence. Housed within a restored 1830s railway goods shed beneath Arthur's Seat in the Lowlands, Holyrood operates with an innovative, flavor-first distilling ethos deeply informed by Edinburgh's historic brewing heritage. Rather than conforming to traditional regional conventions, the distillery experiments extensively with diverse malt varieties—including heirloom, chocolate, and crystal barleys—along with an array of specialty brewing, wine, and sake yeast strains. Utilizing washbacks with extended fermentations and tall copper pot stills, Holyrood captures distinct ester and phenolic profiles before aging spirit in meticulously selected casks. Benchmark expressions include their inaugural single malts Arrival, Ambir, and Embra, alongside singular single-cask trials showcasing red wine, sake yeast, and peated variants.
🍇 Base Material
Malted Barley