{"product_id":"few-spirits-3-year-old-2012-smws-single-new-charred-oak-barrel-b4-1-comforting-coconut-bountiful-banana-illinois-straight-bourbon-whiskey-2016-70cl","title":"Few Spirits 3 Year Old 2012 SMWS Single New Charred Oak Barrel B4.1 Comforting Coconut Bountiful Banana Illinois Straight Bourbon Whiskey (2016) 70cl","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFew Spirits 3 Year Old 2012 SMWS Single New Charred Oak Barrel B4.1 Comforting Coconut Bountiful Banana Illinois Straight Bourbon Whiskey (2016) 70cl\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 of 114 bottles produced from a new oak barrel. The first release of FEW Spirits for the SMWS. This bottle has since become a historical first for the Edinburgh based Independent bottler. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eScotch Malt Whisky Society\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas founded in Edinburgh in 1983 by Phillip 'Pip' Hills who, while travelling around Scotland in the 1970s, fell in love with whiskies drawn straight from the cask. After he expanded his syndicate the Society was purchased by Glenmorangie PLC in 2004. In 2015, the Society was sold back to private investors. In June 2021, the private owners floated the holding company The Artisanal Spirits Company plc on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt has a unique code system where the first number refers to the distillery and the second refers to the cask from which the bottle comes. SMWS also offers the largest range of distilleries of any independent bottler. These curiously named drams really do have something for every whisky lover!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTASTING NOTES\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe nose was welcoming, sweet and fruity – dried mango, corn candies, bubble gum, vanilla pastries and bountiful banana (banana chips, foamy banana, banana toffee); black pepper and liquorice in the background. The neat taste was ‘fierce’ and ‘explosive’, with quinine, tree bark and resins balancing coconut, cola cubes, red laces, cherry lips and Dandelion and Burdock. On the reduced nose, a charred element brought a frisson of danger and excitement to the sweet, homely aromas of white chocolate, toffee popcorn and pecan pie. The palate was more rounded and comforting – coconut macaroons and Walnut Whips fronting leather and willow twigs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout Few Spirits\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA grain-to-glass distillery since 2011, FEW Spirits produces award–winning craft whiskey and gin in a tucked away alley located in the growing Chicago suburb of Evanston, IL..\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFEW Spirits is an American craft distillery based in Evanston, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. They pride themselves on producing everything from grain to glass; every aspect of the production of their spirits is done by them. They currently produce a range of award-winning gins and whiskies, all using ingredients sourced as local to the distillery as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvanston is also the home of prohibition, for it was here that Frances Elizabeth Willard championed the temperance movement with the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. As a not-so-subtle nod to her achievements, Paul Hletko named his distillery FEW Spirits when it became the first distillery in Evanston since prohibition. Every FEW Spirits label carries with it some local heritage by depicting a different scene from the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe distillery has two copper pot stills. Their first still is a custom built german hybrid still and is used to produce the whiskey, as well as to strip low wines for gin production. The second still is also custom built, but is optimized for gin production. Since Few places all of their gin botanicals directly in the pot, the use of a separate still for gin production ensures that the gin flavors don't mix with their whiskey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough a relatively young distillery, Few has rapidly gained acclaim. Social and Cocktail named Few American Gin the most exciting spirit product introduced in the UK in 2012, and the Beverage Testing Institute awarded the Few Barrel Gin the highest rating given a gin in 5 years. 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