The Glasgow Distillery has released Batch 3 of its Glasgow 1770 Cask Strength series, featuring two new limited-edition single malt Scotch whiskies in its unpeated and peated house styles. The lineup includes Glasgow 1770 Cask Strength The Original Batch 3 (60% ABV, 750 bottles) and Glasgow 1770 Cask Strength Peated Batch 3 (61% ABV, 1,000 bottles), both available now via the distillery’s website and specialist whisky retailers.
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READ THE STORYGlasgow’s Cask Strength series has built a following among whisky enthusiasts for its unfiltered insight into the distillery’s spirit character and cask-led maturation approach.
The Original Batch 3 presents the distillery’s signature unpeated style at natural cask strength. It is produced using double-distilled unpeated malted barley, matured in first-fill ex-bourbon casks, and finished in heavily charred virgin American white oak from Kelvin Cooperage.
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The distillery team selected and married three standout casks for the release, creating the limited outturn of 750 bottles. Official tasting notes from the brand describe Seville orange marmalade, dried apricot, toffee apple, and poached pear, alongside tropical fruit, toasted pineapple, and warming oak spice.
The Peated Batch 3 showcases the distillery’s peated style, produced using barley peated to 50ppm with mainland peat from Aberdeenshire. Matured in virgin American white oak before an extended finish in Pedro Ximénez sherry casks, official tasting notes from the brand include BBQ smoke, tobacco leaf, smoked Ibérico ham, grilled pineapple, raisins, dark chocolate, and toasted oak.
Mike Hayward, founder of The Glasgow Distillery, said: “Our Cask Strength releases are a chance to present Glasgow 1770 in its most natural and expressive form. Batch 3 highlights the depth and versatility of both our unpeated and peated styles, with each release carefully selected to showcase the character of our spirit and the influence of exceptional casks. We’re delighted to share these latest bottlings with whisky lovers.”
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The Glasgow Distillery was the first independent single malt whisky distillery to operate in Glasgow in more than a century when it was founded in 2012. Production began in 2015.
Later this year, the distillery is set to release its first-ever 10-year-old peated single malt.
International allocations of the new Batch 3 Cask Strength are rolling out across Finland, Denmark, Canada, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic.
