Arran Barrel Bonfire

Vale! The LAST EVER peated Arran Whisky to be produced…EVER – The Arran Barrel Bonfire!

EXCLUSIVE to the Club – This LIMITED EDITION, SPECIAL RELEASE is sure to become a collector’s item over the coming years – if you can save it that long! Of course, you can always get two – one to keep and one to drink!

The Arran Barrel Bonfire represents the end of an era at Arran in a couple of ways. Firstly, this is the final peated offering to come out of Arran… EVER! Since these casks were filled, no more peated spirit has been produced under the Arran name. And peated spirit production was altogether phased out of Lochranza Distillery in 2016. All peated spirit for the ‘Isle of Arran Distillers’ is now being produced at the sister distillery in the south of the island – Lagg Distillery. All peated expressions from the Isle of Arran Distillers will now come under the Lagg or Machrie Moor labels.

The other aspect of this whisky that makes it very special is the use of the quarter casks form Koval distillery in the USA for the second half of the maturation. These 115 litre ex-bourbon barrels were custom made at Koval for [eventual] use in Lochranza’s maturation program. No more of these special barrels have been filled since, making this release double-y unique.

Distilled in 2012 with a peat level of 42ppm it spent its first 5 ½ years in ex-bourbon casks before transferred into the smaller 115L Koval quarter casks for a further 5 1/2years. Bottled at a generous 50%abv and (of course!) non chill-filtered and 100% naturally coloured.

The Arran Barrel Bonfire is Edition 2 of the four-part Arran ‘Signature Series’. All the casks in this series have been hand-picked by distillery manager, Stuart Bowman and in his words, “the Signature Series is a selection of Arran Single Malts which showcase the diversity of our spirit and the values which are important to us”.

With this series, Stuart encourages you to look at the quality of the whisky in your glass and focus on investing in your own enjoyment. His aim is to provide you with an interesting, complex whisky with quality over quantity.