Glasgow 1770 Triple Distilled

Our mission
The name ‘Glasgow 1770’ is a tribute to the founding date of the original ‘Glasgow Distillery Company’. Our city once boasted over 30 working whisky distilleries, and the original ‘Glasgow Distillery’, as they were known for a time, were one of the largest in the world until 1902 when they closed their doors. We take on their legacy with a mission to bring quality Glasgow-made spirits back to our city, and to the world.

A unique Signature Range
Glasgow 1770 Peated forms one-third of our 'Signature Range'. The Signature Range celebrates our three whisky creation styles:
1. Double distilled whisky using unpeated malted barley,
2. Triple distilled whisky using unpeated malted barley,
3. Double distilled whisky using peated malted barley.

We’re one of only a handful of whisky distilleries that produce these three styles of new make spirit every year. We do this as it allows us to make a wide range of different styles of whisky.

This is our flagship triple distilled single malt which we produce for one-third of our production year.

Production Summary
To make Glasgow 1770 Triple Distilled, we combine the following three ingredients:
Barley: unpeated malted barley sourced from around the UK.  
Water: our local soft Scottish water sourced from Loch Katrine.
Yeast: A minimum 72 hours of fermentation within our washbacks using MG+ Pinnacle Distillers Yeast which gives us a bright and citrus-forward flavour profile. 

Distillation:
Not many distilleries in Scotland produce triple distilled single malt. We choose to do a limited run of triple distilled whisky each year as it gives us a delicate and very smooth, citrus-forward style, which is different from our other distillation styles, therefore allowing us to make such a broad range of flavours within our whiskies.

Our first distillation runs very slowly within a 2,500 litre copper pot wash still. Our second distillation is within a smaller 1,500 litre spirit still and our third distillation runs through this spirit still once again – it’s within this third distillation that we’re capturing our new make spirit, also known as the ‘hearts’.

For triple distilled, we’re capturing a very high hearts, with a cut point from 81% ABV to 75% ABV. This gives us wonderfully smooth and bright new make spirit, which is then reduced to 63.5% ABV before filling into casks for maturation.

Maturation:
Glasgow 1770 Triple Distilled is matured across three different cask types, which are then all married together just before bottling. The majority of the cask make up is first fill ex-bourbon barrels, and refill ex-bourbon barrels – these come to us from a variety of quality bourbon producers in the USA. A small amount of the cask recipe, around 4-8%, is fully matured within virgin American white oak barrels sourced from Kelvin Cooperage in Kentucky.

Glasgow 1770 Triple Distilled is a non-age statement product, which means we don’t place an age on the label. This is because the age of the whisky inside the bottle can change from batch-to-batch as we seek to provide a consistent flavour profile within the bottle, rather than a consistent age statement on the label. You can find the batch number of each bottling on the rear label near the barcode.

Bottling:
Glasgow 1770 Triple Distilled is consistently bottled at 46% ABV. This product is non-chill filtered, which means we’re keeping as much flavour and mouth-tactility within the bottle as possible. This bottle is also presented at natural colour, the bright golden straw colour all coming from the ex-bourbon and virgin oak barrels we’ve used for maturation.

The resulting single malt is what we call our ‘smooth & vibrant’ style of whisky. Packed with notes of fresh orchard fruits, vanilla, soft caramel and honey with delicate floral undertones throughout. A brilliantly smooth and delicate style of whisky that is the perfect easy sipper.