Today everyone wants to know more about what’s in their food, but do you know what’s in your single malt? Bruichladdich is the first major Distillery to fully embrace this new ‘age of transparency’. They go to extreme lengths to produce whisky, the flavour coming from not just the process, but ALL the ingredients. It is now time to find out exactly what those are.

While many producers aim for absolute consistency in their flagship bottle, Bruichladdich are stepping away from tradition with the Classic Laddie and the Laddie Eight. Rather than practise caramel colouring or chill-filtering to homogenise their whisky, they want to celebrate those differences. Not surprising since these are anything but ‘standard’ bottlings.

Enter the batch code printed on the back of those bottles on their website, and it will reveal the unique recipe. Batch 19/999 of the Classic Laddie is made up of 76 different casks, comprising five vintages of spirit, three different barley types and eight different cask types! Each batch will be subtly different, though still showing the celebrated elegant, floral Bruichladdich style.

The goal is for you to be able to trace that individual batch’s ingredients from origin to bottling. Every separate thing that subtly influences the taste of the final blend can be found. Barley origin, cask type and provenance, and the age of the youngest component. Basically, as much information as they are legally allowed to provide. No hidden measures.