Lohin McKinnon Single Malt

Nice review, I had a chance to sample this at SOT. It's very much as you said, green, floral and light, very close to the grain, it lacked something to grab your attention. I tried their wine cask finished variant and felt that the wine easily drowned the base malt. Needs more time and a higher proof.

They released a limited edition bottling for the Canada 150 anniversary, it is a blend of malted rye and peated malt finished in oloroso casks.. That makes me curious

The more I drink it, the more I want to delete that comment about it being worth checking out. This is not one I would buy again, at any price.

@Megawatt Oh no buyer's remorse...it happens, see if you can salvage it in cocktails or as a component in home blends, or perhaps passing it along to someone who likes it better than you do.

I have gifted/been gifted a few that way.

I'm now 0 for 3 on my last 3 bottles. Fortunately they were all cheap/on sale. But still. I might need to rethink this idea of always trying new whiskies, especially from small or unknown distilleries.

@cricklewood , where do they get their peated malt from?

Or if they malt it themselves, where do they get the peat?

@Megawatt Did you try Last Mountain whiskyy? I once had it at a tasting with @paddockjudge, @nozinan and many more and it was surprising. It started like a nice Canadian whisky and suddenly at the end WHAM! the stronger coffee note I ever encountered in a whisky. It is a wheat whisky from Saskatchewan that I am curious of and would really like to know if that coffee note was a luck or if it is a distillery signature.

@Robert99 Nope, haven't encountered that one. One a related note, Stalk and Barrel single malt has the strongest black tea flavour I've ever encountered in a whisky.

@MadSingleMalt I am not sure about the origin of their peated malt but as they are also a functioning brewery I would assume from one of the many malt suppliers. I doubt it is from Port Ellen, from what I have heard (but could be false) PE doesn't take many new clients and it is quite expensive as one must buy a large quantity.

There isn't much out there on this peated hybrid they make but my curiosity is piqued, I would do a bottle split if anyone else is interested and we can actually find it. Two Brewers in Yukon (incidentally also a brewery) makes a peated single malt that has received really good reviews SAQ received some a few weeks ago, I am trying to see if they have any for sampling.

I'm a huge fan of any Lohin McKinnon stuff I've tried so far...including the peated malt. To answer the question above, they actually got their malted barley from Baird's in Scotland. In 2017 they switched to Simpsons peat malt also out of Scotland.