Single Malt Pinnacle Yeast 'Full Cask' No 609
⏳ Drinking Window
As a distilled spirit, this bottle is stable and ready to enjoy immediately, maintaining its character indefinitely when stored properly.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
dark chocolate, blue cheese, smoked salmon
✨ Technical Specifications
Holyrood Distillery, located in the heart of Edinburgh, has revitalized the city's rich distilling and brewing heritage. This particular expression highlights their deeply experimental ethos, specifically focusing on the impact of yeast on flavor development—a variable often overlooked in traditional Scotch whisky production. By utilizing Pinnacle yeast, a classic distilling strain known for its efficient conversion and clean profile, and maturing the spirit in a single selected cask, Holyrood showcases how raw ingredients and fermentation choices dictate the final character of Lowland single malt. The spirit reflects Edinburgh's historic brewing past, where yeast strains were carefully guarded secrets, bringing a modern, flavor-first approach to the traditional Lowland style.
🍾 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.