“Unpeated Double Oak is one of the last whiskies we released that was distilled in Launceston. While our stills were being built and the stillhouse at the Flinders Wharf was still just a plan, our founder Damien Newton-Brown was working in Launceston with Chris Condon, making the cuts on our first batches of spirit.

In those early batches we were playing around with the composition of Flinders peated malt in the mash bill. Some were 100%, some were 30-40% to test a lighter peat profile. The spirit from those “lightly peated” runs was so subtle in its peat influence that we decided to not release it as a peated expression, reserving that title for the more intensely smoky spirits.

So, this expression while presenting as an unpeated release, actually has around 20-30% peated malt in the composition. Blended on Flinders Island by our Head Distiller Tom Ambroz, the spirit was matured in 20l ex Tawny and ex Bourbon casks for approximately 2.2yrs, then decanted, diluted from our coastal rainwater tanks and put through a series of blending trials to marry the dominant bourbon notes with the soft sweetness of Australian tawny. It was then set to breathe for several weeks after blending, and non-chill filtered for bottling. It is one of the last whiskies we will release from the spirit distilled at Launceston, before our Flinders Island distillery spirit is mature in 2022.”