It was born in a pub and that’s how Copper Dog is best enjoyed: in a convivial atmosphere amongst friends. It has a fairly thin body, and doesn’t really stand up to being a sipper that you can sit down and spend a lot of time with. Renowned for its remote Highland location, Speyside was a smuggler’s paradise with stills and bothies hidden in every nook and cranny.

The liquid is a unique blend of no fewer than eight single malt whiskies, slowly married together in old oak casks.Our liquid is a unique blend of no fewer than eight single malt whiskies, slowly married together in old oak casks. In years long-passed, distillery workers would help themselves to a dram using a ‘copper dog’; a pipe hidden inside the leg of their trousers. On the nose it’s all about aromatic toffee, sweet nectarine, apple blossom and just the slightest touch of smoke.

I’ve actually used this in several cocktails as a result, as well as in hot toddies and in my whisky sauce to accompany a haggis, neeps, and tatties Burns supper. His first ambition was to create a community pub set within the hotel for locals and travellers alike, offering a farm to plate philosophy. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.It is produced in association with the pub that shares its name, located in the historic Craigellachie Hotel in Speyside.