Scottish craft beer maker BrewDog will start producing spirits when it inaugurates its new distillery division next month.
Lone Wolf Distillery will start production with a line of vodka, and has removed a section of its brewhouse roof to install a 19 metre-high rectification column for the purest and cleanest spirit possible. The company will become the only craft distillery in Scotland to make its base spirit from grain under one roof, Aberdeenshire-based BrewDog said.
This will then form the basis of Lone Wolf’s vodka and gins, distilling everything from scratch. Its head distiller is currently in the process over experimenting with more than 30 different botanicals, building up the flavour complexity until the blend is perfect, it said.
Lone Wolf will also seek to expand into whiskies as it challenges the boundaries of what a distillery can do, and forms part of BrewDog’s Equity for Punks crowdfunding initiative launched last year.
BrewDog will begin by distilling vodka, gin and, later, whisky.
The foundation of the distillery follows shortly after the opening BrewDog’s new 300hl brewery to the east of its current site.
“Just a month after the new brewhouse fires up for the first time, we’ll be celebrating a second debut at our Ellon HQ. We can’t wait to begin producing hand-crafted small batch spirits, and the newly-named Lone Wolf Distillery launches in April,” a company spokesperson said in February.
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