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
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.