{"product_id":"benromach-10-year-old","title":"Benromach 10 Year Old","description":"\u003cp\u003eToday, this truly unique distillery is run as if in a time warp, where a team of three carefully craft a pre-60s style of Scotch whisky with the minimal use of modern tools. The small scale of the distillery means that everything can be done by hand, and they joke that the only computer in the distillery is one used for emails, so much so that there are no temperature or pressure gauges on the stills. Everything is down to the stillman’s skills. The old-time processes mean slower fermentations using a combination of brewer’s and distiller’s yeast for bigger, maltier flavours, slower distillations to capture the sweetest part of the run, and a focus on local ingredients. Benromach only uses barley grown in their home county of Morayshire and spring water from the nearby Romach Hills. Only first fill casks are used for maturation, and all it’s sherry casks have spent at least three years in a Spanish bodega before being shipped to the UK for bottling and consumption, meaning that the sherry was actually used as drinking sherry (therefore of a higher quality) and not simply dumped after seasoning the cask for whisky maturation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther than it’s few heavily peated varieties, the bulk of Benromach whiskies are slightly peated to 12ppm and the malting is done locally by Crisp Maltings. This is key to Benromach’s pre-1960s style because all Scotch whisky was at least very lightly peat-smoked in that era as peat was a staple fuel. This changed in recent times as peat and even coal to a large extent have been replaced by electricity and gas, paving the way for the non-peated whiskies now available on the market.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you have a few minutes you can click here to watch a most touching film about the distillery and the passion of those behind it. Best enjoyed with a dram in hand!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Benromach Distillery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46489894453327,"sku":"WC0012","price":85.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/1185\/7487\/files\/benromach_10.png?v=1787700848","url":"https:\/\/thewhiskyclub.com.au\/products\/benromach-10-year-old","provider":"The Whisky Club AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}