A Fresh Season: Celebrating Spring with Two New Filey Bay Whiskies

The sun is shining and the daffodils have made an appearance adding some welcome colour to North Yorkshire landscape. Spring has arrived and we’re celebrating with two new Filey Bay releases.

Let’s take a look…

Filey Bay Porter Cask #2 Special Release.

This is the second time we have released a whisky that has been matured in sister company, Wold Top Brewery Marmalade Porter Casks.

Back in 2024 our first Porter Cask matured in these special cask over an eight-month period. Filey Bay Porter Cask #2 has matured in these specific casks for nearly three years. Brining a bolder, maltier dram and one that is carrying a deeper marmalade punch, it’s a complex, full-bodied dram, perfect for spring.

Tasting Notes: Complex and fruity with flavours of chocolate cereal, roasted malt and dark marmalade.

Filey Bay Flagship Marrying Strength

Think Filey Bay Flagship, but with the dial turned up. Bottled at ‘Marrying Strength’, this is like seeing our Flagship live on stage and you’re standing in the front row.

What does ‘Marrying Strength’ mean?

Its a term we use a lot behind the scenes, but perhaps not a term most whisky-loving folk would know. Sitting between cask strength (usually 57-60% straight from the cask) and bottling strength (usually 45-48% for us), we have marrying strength.

Before bottling and final reduction of our classic Flagship to its bottling strength at 46%, it spends long periods of time at what we know as marrying strength, allowing the whisky to harmonise, a gentle and controlled slow reduction as we take it down from cask strength to bottling strength.

Both whiskies are available to buy directly from our website, here at the Distillery Shop or across the UK and Europe at selected specialist retailers. – Shop Here

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