Hicks & Healey 2004 Single Cask

Cornwalls first whisky in 300 years was born from a handshake between two local, forward thinking independent family businesses, St Austell Brewery and Healeys Cornish Cyder Farm. The partnership brings together expertise in brewing and distillation for the first time in England, resulting in a quality whiskey made with passion and integrity. The Cornish Whiskey Story. Made with Maris Otter barley grown in Trerulefoot, South East Cornwall, and using clear, soft Cornish spring water from the Brake, St Austell Brewery's private well, the wash was mixed at St Austell Brewery's traditional brew-house before being transferred to Healey's Cornish Cyder Farm and passed through a double distillation in a unique copper pot still. At only 1,200 litres it is the smallest legal still in the country and ensures longer interaction between the spirit and the copper. The heart of the run was then collected and filled into new charred bourbon casks where it has gained character and colour as it has slept in the steadu Cornish climate for eight years.