Old Fettercairn 1980s Single Malt Scotch Whisky (Old bottle

1980s Official Bottling. Fettercairn has a traditional distillery set-up with an open-topped mash tun (producing cloudy wort), wooden washbacks and small stills. There are even soap grinders on the sides of the wash stills. These would have been used to add non-perfumed soap as a surfactant to stop the stills boiling over. Everything points to a firm, quite heavy, nutty style. This was exacerbated between 1995 to 2009 when the condensers were made of stainless steel. This added a slightly burnt, pot ale character to the new make. The single malt is aged mostly in first-fill American oak – some new wood is also in the mix – to add a balancing sweetness. Interestingly enough, during the great whisky loch in the 1980s when whisky is in excess, this could be released in the early 1980s while the crisis just started when distilleries needed to push out the young and excess whisky produced originally for blenders. At the end of 1980s and early 1990s, there are so many stocks left, distilleries pushed out older expression as their core ranges. After 1954, it was owned by a private owner until 1971 which bought by Tomintoul-Glenlivet and from there it joined Whyte & Mackay.