{"product_id":"rock-town-distillery-5-year-old-2015-smws-single-charred-barrel-b3-10-smouldering-coals-in-a-sweat-lodge-arkansas-straight-bourbon-whiskey-2020-70cl","title":"Rock Town Distillery 5 Year Old 2015 SMWS Single Charred Barrel B3.10 Smouldering Coals in a Sweat Lodge Arkansas Straight Bourbon Whiskey (2020) 70cl","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRock Town Distillery 5 Year Old 2015 SMWS Single Charred Barrel B3.10 Smouldering Coals in a Sweat Lodge Arkansas Straight Bourbon Whiskey (2020) 70cl\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 of 193 bottles from a single charred new American Oak Barrel. \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\u003cp\u003eThe SMWS are one of the Britain's most revered independent bottlers with a worldwide network of partner bars with one mission of getting as much whisky at natural cask strength without water to different nations including USA, Canada, Switzerland, UK, Austria, Germany and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTASTING NOTES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productView bottle js_itemPageProfile flavour-default\" data-categories='[\"Bottle Archive\"]'\u003e\n\u003carticle class=\"productView-description\" id=\"productView-description\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productView-descriptionWrap\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe nose gave us ‘cola cubes and in a painted room’ and ‘smouldering coals in a sweat lodge hung with eucalyptus’. Time brought out sandalwood and nutmeg. The palate had amarena cherry, red cola and molasses, plus pleasant tannic tingles of polished oak, liquorice and black tea, with abundant cinnamon and clove. The reduced nose evoked a vintage automobile shop for one panellist – others reported fresh apple pie, red onion chutney, smoky bacon, rum punch and orange oil. The palate was now wonderfully tasty – fruity jam and cherry brandy, apple cider, dark chocolate, camp coffee syrup and overcooked banana from the campfire. The mashbill was 82% Arkansas corn, 9% Arkansas wheat \u0026amp; 9% malted barley.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Rock Town Distillery\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRock Town Distillery is proud to call Little Rock home and source ingredients from farmers across Arkansas. Phil Brandon’s goal for Rock Town was to make an affordable product using all-natural ingredients that could compete against any top-shelf competitor in the nation. That is precisely what Rock Town has done. In 2009, Phil Brandon left his corporate job in the pursuit of his passion, starting a distillery. Thus the phrase ‘Our Passion Is Our Spirit’ was born, and in 2010 Rock Town Distillery found its home in Little Rock, Arkansas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRock Town also has a full bar offering craft cocktails using Rock Town's award winning spirits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of US Micro Whiskey of the Year in the 2015 edition of Jim Murray's Whisky Bible for their Single Barrel Bourbon Whiskey.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e59.5% ABV\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e70cl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rock Town Distillery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55704964006213,"sku":"ROCKTSMWSB3.10","price":159.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/9495\/8661\/files\/RockTownDistillery5YearOld2015SMWSSingleCharredBarrelB3.10SmoulderingCoalsinaSweatLodgeArkansasStraightBourbonWhiskey_2020_70cl1.jpg?v=1758493937","url":"https:\/\/b1yyjg-bk.myshopify.com\/products\/rock-town-distillery-5-year-old-2015-smws-single-charred-barrel-b3-10-smouldering-coals-in-a-sweat-lodge-arkansas-straight-bourbon-whiskey-2020-70cl","provider":"Whisky Situation Old","version":"1.0","type":"link"}