We want to capitalise on our brewing expertise with varying malts. We will use rye, wheat and malted barley mashbills, and crystal, chocolate and roasted malts will not be off limits. Kersley explains, “We schedule what we need from the brewhouse on a weekly basis, but as we upscale the distilling operation we hope to develop a dedicated brewhouse just for our use. The second, more conventional, pot still is attached to a complex condensing system, and an eight-plate rectifying column still completes the line-up. German fabricators Arnold Holstein have created a 50-litre pilot still, where experimentation takes place, and a pair of 3,000-litre charge copper pot stills, the first of which boasts what Kersley calls a “triple bubble,” intended to give lots of reflux and copper contact. You’re already half-way there when you have a brewery! BrewDog’s founders Martin and James were passionate about making our own whisky, and the distillery was designed with flexibility very much in mind.” The distilling regime is a thing of wonder, with a remarkably wide range of permutations. “Our ambition is to create the same sort of success with spirits that we have with beer.” “We decided to start distilling because it seemed a natural progression. “The name Lone Wolf was chosen because we are looking to carve our own path, not being constrained by rules or regulations – progressive and innovative and experimental,” he says. Subsequently, he spent four years managing various Diageo distilleries, before his creative and experimental streak led him to Lone Wolf. Presiding over Lone Wolf is Steven Kersley, who studied chemistry at Glasgow University, then brewing and distilling at Heriot-Watt in Edinburgh. Its two brewhouses, distillery, bottling and head office functions are based on an industrial estate at Ellon, some 16 miles north of Aberdeen, and spending time there you sense that the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) which oversees the industry’s rules and regulations, probably has some headaches in store. It has become Scotland’s largest independent brewers in no more than a decade, causing outrage and delight in equal measure along the way. Both Lone Wolf ( and Twin River ( have grown out of brewing enterprises, and both are already pushing the envelope of what constitutes ‘Scotch whisky.’ Lone Wolf Lone Wolf is the spirits division of those nanny state-baiting punk beer entrepreneurs at BrewDog, who have developed an international presence with the likes of Punk IPA and Dead Pony Club. In Scotland two of the most experimental and forward-looking young distilleries making whisky are located within 30 miles of each other in the north-east county of Aberdeenshire.
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