We were talking whiskey, and when I asked him what he had against blended scotch, his answer was “It’s the grain whisky watering down my good stuff!”Ĭompass Box takes this conventional wisdom and turns it on its head with Hedonism, a premium vatted grain whiskey and a serious throwback in whiskey-making.
Some years ago, I found myself in a Malaysian flophouse sharing a bottle of bourbon I’d been carrying with a Scotsman.
In Ireland, malt whiskey occupies the top slot, with pot still coming in second and grain a distant third. Over in Scotland, the single malts get all the glory, and many whiskey lovers think of vatted malts (an all-malt whiskey blend from different distilleries) as the next step down. In most cases, grain whiskey is a very necessary, but rarely spoken of ingredient for blended whiskey across the British Isles.
