Sexywhisky North British 14 Year Old 2008 Bourbon Barrel Matured 'Korean Beauty' Single Grain Scotch Whisky (2023) 70cl
1 of 28 bottles produced from a bourbon barrel
About North British
Blend contributed to: Cutty Sark, Famous Grouse, Chivas Regal, J&B, Isle Of Skye
Practically crowd-funded to provide an alternative source of grain, North British is today jointly owned by two of Scotland's largest distillers.
The North British (the archaic and somewhat disparaging term applied to post-Jacobite Scotland) distillery was founded in Edinburgh in 1885. Up until that point, Scotland’s blenders and spirit merchants could only buy their grain from DCL [see Cameronbridge]. In an attempt to break the monopoly, Andrew Usher, William Sanderson, John Crabbie and James Watson joined forces to build a new – and substantial – grain distillery in Gorgie, close to the Union Canal, the railway line, and the Caledonian distillery which had been absorbed into DCL the year before. A case of the last straw perhaps?
Production started in 1887 from a single Coffey. Within three years capacity had doubled to three million gallons a year. Whisky-making ceased during the First World War, but production restarted in 1920. It was nursed cautiously through the tricky period of the 1930s, but blossomed once more post-WWII. By the 1960s it was making six million gallons a year (a figure which would double by the start of the following decade), and for a period, North British was the largest grain plant in Scotland.
By the 1960s it was still being run as a kind of co-operative with its shareholders including Robertson & Baxter, IDV, William Lawson, Macdonald Martin, Seagram and William Teacher. In 1993 its management was taken over by Lothian Distillers, an equal partnership between R&B [now Edrington Group] and IDV. The result of the merger between the latter and DCL (by that time called UD) in 1997, meant that North British was being jointly run by the firm which it had set up in opposition to.
Ahh, the irony.
About Sexywhisky
This German independent bottler has a surprisingly good reputation and the anime artwork always seems to go down well with them.
Sexywhisky from Germany certainly push the boat out when it comes to their label artwork. Some is so raunchy that it would have to be blurred if listed online. You never know what they will do next.
*due mid Feb 2026
46% ABV
70cl
