BOX Early Days - Batch 002

The main idea behind the first official Box whisky was to be able to present a relatively traditional bottling from Bourbon casks. And frankly, three years is quite a short time when it comes to storing whisky, so we knew we had to use quite large quantities of peated whisky for the first bottling in order to take the edge of the finished product’s youthful qualities. We now know that The Box Unpeated Recipe stands up more than well in the competition, however youthful it may be, and that there wasn’t really any need to hide or masque the youthfulness.

Recipe..
50% unpeated and 35% peated whisky (31ppm) matured for three years in Bourbon ‘Ankare’ (40 litres) and 15% unpeated whisky matured for two years in 200-litre Bourbon casks and that’s been finished in 100-litre casks of charred, new Swedish oak. The light smoky whisky has a clear but moderate peat flavour. The elements of Swedish charred oak contribute with spices and notes of caramel and butterscotch as well as some deeper colour. The Pioneer has been neither chill filtered nor coloured.

The Pioneer was bottled in a batch of 6,508 bottles of which 5,000 were released to the public on the 5th of June 2014. The remaining bottles were reserved for our stockholders. We recommend that you allow The Pioneer at least half an hour for aerating before sampling.

From Box Distillery.