Lochside – 1966 40 Year Old Single Grain (70cl, 46.1%)

Lochside – 1966 40 Year Old Single Grain is a whisky from Lochside (Highland). Aged 40 years, bottled at 46.1% ABV, 70cl. Lochside’s imposing white tower is now sadly missed from the Montrose landscape. It was unlike any distillery built before, or since. The tower had nothing to do with whisky, but students of brewery architecture would have recognised it as a classic German brauhaus, in this case reinterpreted by none other than Charles Doig in 1899. His design wasn’t an accident – Lochside indeed was a brewery from 1786 until its closure in 1957. It then went on to produce both single malt and grain whiskies until it’s closure in 1997. The site and the tower were finally demolished in 2005 by developers to make way for flats. Please note split to paper seal