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
Founded in 2019 by Rob and Kelly Carpenter alongside former Macallan master distiller David Robertson, Holyrood Distillery marked the historic return of single malt whisky distilling to the center of Edinburgh after nearly a century. Situated in a converted 1830s railway goods building adjacent to Holyrood Park in Scotland's Lowlands, the distillery embraces a progressive, flavor-led production philosophy. Driven by extensive experimentation with specialty and heritage barley varieties like Golden Promise, diverse brewing yeasts, and tailored cask regimens, Holyrood pushes traditional boundaries. In addition to producing nuanced, complex single malt whiskies, the craft distillery is celebrated for its distinctive artisanal gins, rums, and innovative botanical spirits.
🍇 Base Ingredient
Malted Barley