Little Brown Dog Spirits ltd

Everything we have done before..... Has led to now. Aberdeenshire Single Malt by Little Brown Dog #ASM #scotchwhisky #singlemalt

Little Brown Dog Aberdeenshire single malt Scotch whisky… a 12 year old Highland whisky at 46% ABV, distilled at Glen Garioch and matured in bourbon and sherry casks. Little Brown Dog has introduced its first-ever core single malt Scotch whisky… and this feels like a proper step. The Aberdeenshire-based independent bottler, founded by Andrew Smith and Chris Reid, moves from small batch and single cask releases into a permanent core expression. And they didn’t rush it. 🥃 Aberdeenshire Single Malt 12 year old Highland single malt Scotch whisky Distilled at Glen Garioch Matured in 60% first-fill bourbon barrels and 40% Oloroso & PX sherry casks Bottled at 46% ABV Non chill filtered | Natural colour Batch One comes in hand-numbered runs of around 2,000 bottles. Big for them… but still small enough to keep that batch character alive. What makes this one interesting is the approach behind it. This wasn’t just created in a warehouse somewhere. It’s been shaped over years, with input from retailers, distributors across nine markets, and more than 200 whisky drinkers. 🥃 Nose Soft orchard fruits, vanilla, light spice and a gentle sherry sweetness. 🥃 Palate Balanced and rounded. Honey, malt, dried fruits and subtle oak, with that bourbon and sherry mix working together instead of fighting. 🔥 Finish Medium length, clean, slightly warming with a soft spice and dry edge. Built to reflect Aberdeenshire. Not just as a place… but as a style. No hype release. No one-off. This is their foundation going forward. A big step for Little Brown Dog… and honestly, well deserved.

One week of the year, that's all we have to forage the beech leaves at the right moment. They've got to be picked just as they emerge and before the tannins develop to get the bright citrus flavours we want for the gin. After picking they're geotagged, vacuum packed and frozen to give us enough for a year of distilling. They are a wee bit earlier this year, usually first week in May but we picked our first leaves of the year last week. #LBDGIN

Last day of tapping the birch trees. The sap is still running but our freezer is full and we'll have enough to make gin for the next 12 months now. You can see the difference in sap flow rate between these two trees, these bags are both 24 hours old and one is overflowing! We use the birch sap as a key ingredient in our Aberdeenshire Foraged Gin. The sugars in the sap caramelise during the direct fired distillation which adds a gently woody sweetness to our spirit. After tapping we spigot the holes with a birch dowel and the tree heals. It'll be 3 years before we go back to the same trees. #AFG #LBDgin #foraging #treetapping

Anne from The Culinary Kiwi Bird popped in this morning to chat about Calvados with us. She uses our single cask Calvados to make the filling of her utterly incredible almond croissants. She brought a few over, still warm from the oven. Probably the best way to start the week, fairly elevated the morning coffee. Bit early in the day and forklift to drive but can't help but think a cheeky wee Calvados chaser would have made this even more epic! You'll find Anne and her incredible breads and patisserie at farmers markets across the North East of Scotland. Probably the best croissants outside of France. Scroll over for a picture taken in front of a Glen Garioch cask filled with Pays D'Auge Calvados. The will power it took not to take a bite before these photos were taken was intense... Cheers, slàinte, santé 🥃🥐 🍎

You could say I branched out for this one I went out with Little Brown Dog to see how their foraged spirits start and I didn’t realise it takes a full year to bring it all together From just a couple of weeks tapping birch sap in April, to beech leaves, rhubarb, bee pollen, parsnips and juniper later in the year everything depends on what’s growing locally at that exact time It’s literally a year of Aberdeenshire in your bottle And the best bit… each bottle is geotagged so you can see exactly where it all came from Not your average G&T Would you try it? Aberdeen | Aberdeenshire | Little Brown Dog | foraged gin Scotland | Scottish gin | local ingredients Scotland | foraging Scotland | north east Scotland | Aberdeen hidden gems | Scottish distillery | seasonal food Scotland

Braeval 16 year old single cask from @lbdspirits . Is Braeval the highest distillery in Scotland? One of those questions that will get brought up now and then and gets hotly debated. Anyway, we don't get much Braeval onto our shelves and secondly we don't have anything matured in white port. Full maturation in white port ( 16 years) may we add. So this is unique in many a sense. About as unique as a 16th century castle that became Scotland's 1st mainland lighthouse and was in operation for nearly 200 years , of course this is in reference to the backdrop. 🙃 About the whisky though : Bottles – 332 Colour – Jurassic Park Amber Nose – Honeydew melon, clear gummy bears, fresh hay. Palate – Green apple skins, tarte au poir, quince jelly. Finish – White burgundy and the good milk chocolate that you don’t share. Only a couple left on site. Cheers all 🥃

Bonnie night locking up tonight

Full maturation white port single cask Braeval, when did you ever see that before? A cask we’ve been excited to share for some time. Full maturation white port barrique from a lesser seen Speyside distillery. Way waaaaay back when LBD was just a sample sharing hobby, Andrew made a little cask, seasoned it with white port and finished an Arran in it to give to friends at the distillery for the 18th anniversary (2013). So once again there’s a sentimental little nugget for us to get all misty eyed and excited about! Why we bottled this – We really try to find interesting things, and while we absolutely love bourbon and sherry casks, the opportunity to present full maturation white port casks from any distillery does not come up very often! It’s such a unique style to work with, fruity but dry and a wonderful mineral profile. The label – Without getting into a fight about which distillery is the highest, Braeval or Dalwhinnie, lets call them joint highest. Clouds seemed appropriate, they are high. We did think about other types of “high” labels but the SWA probably wouldn’t approve. Bottles – 332 Filled – 02/02/2010 Bottled – 11/02/2026 Colour – Jurassic Park Amber Nose – Honeydew melon, clear gummy bears, fresh hay. Palate – Green apple skins, tarte au poir, quince jelly. Finish – White burgundy and the good milk chocolate that you don’t share. As with all our small batch and single cask releases, this is natural colour, not chill filtered and cask strength.

Is it just us, or when you read about the Speyside distillery your reaction is always, yeah but which one? The Speyside Distillery. Yeah, BUT WHICH ONE!? Which is why this is the NOT SECRET Speyside. Do we get to call it a ghost distillery yet? The original distillery has been dismantled but will live on with new owners in a rebuilt building that is currently under construction. (Also how confused are our the fulfilment company ging to be with a not secret Speyside and a super secret Speyside in the same launch?) Why we picked this – A bright sipping, sweet Speysider with a fascinating nose. We do love a refill casks at this age and this American Oak refill sherry (uncategorised) hogshead stood out for us. Label – The Speyside distillery in Kingussie is/was just along the road from the Highland Wildlife Park. Our favourite animal there is the snow leopard, so here’s a snow leopard label. Close decision between this, the wildcats and the polar bears but who doesn’t love a bit of leopard print?! A real photo, no AI. Bottles – 317 Filled – 25/06/2009 Bottled – 13/02/2026 Colour – Cedar Wood Nose – Pomegranate, paprika, fresh box of Crayola Palate – Red currant, artichoke, Sancerre Finish – Lakrids and fizz wizz popping candy. As with all our small batch and single cask releases, this is natural colour, not chill filtered and cask strength.

As will now no doubt be clear, we don’t like secrets at LBD. Which is why we do all we can to avoid them. Our 3rd “Secret” Speyside, but each time we change the name as they’ve all been different distilleries, unnamed Speyside, Very Secret Speyside and now Super Secret. A distillery that adds “Glen” to Rothes and isn’t from Fife, we added the what 3 words coordinates to geotag the stillhouse on the back label, just in case there’s any confusion as to the origins of this single bourbon barrel. Oh and we double checked the spelling this time…. ///flinches.smiles.flirts Why we picked this – We’ve had this cask now for almost 7 years, it was amongst the first casks we bought as a business and while we didn’t quite forget about it, it only came home a year or so ago. A very solid single bourbon cask and fun to pair it next to the not secret Speyside. The Label – Andrew had the immense privilege to spend a day at this distillery with bonafide LEGEND of the industry, Mr Ronnie “red socks” Cox. While he has not been involved with this bottling, it’s our nod of respect to a man who absolutely inspired us early in our whisky journeys and we’ll forever associate him with this distillery. We can’t think of this distillery without thinking of Ronnie and his amazing stories. So many amazing drams have been shared with incredible stories. Ronnie’s stories aren’t ours to tell here but if our stories at the end of our careers are 10% as good as his, we’ll have succeeded. Bottles – 222 Filled – 03/12/2008 Bottled – 16/02/2026 Colour – Brass Spirit Safe Nose – Toasted brioche, blossom honey, mango sorbet Palate – Pink Grapefruit, cress, plum chutney Finish – White chocolate & lemon balm As with all our small batch and single cask releases, this is natural colour, not chill filtered and cask strength.