For those of you that have been following the story of our distillery layout, you’ll be reading this for two reasons: You no doubt want to know which layout we are going with, and of course, who it was that won the 5 Golden Tickets!
Erm, 9. Not 5
Due to the overwhelming response that we had – we decided to increase the number of Golden Tickets to 9. Our whisky maths was assuming 500 or so entries, and 1% winning a Golden Ticket seemed about right. But, with just over 900 entries, it only felt right to increase the tickets awarded to 9.
But let’s start with what we were all voting for.
The Final Layout
As absolutely no surprise to more than half of you who voted for this – the chosen layout was The Choir.
This 10 still configuration was the preferred choice of the entire Nine Rivers Distillery team – so the fact that it was the favourite for our audience just reinforces our original decision.
As a brief recap on the key highlights, this configuration utilises:
- 2 x 30’000 litre wash stills
- 2 x 25’000 litre spirit stills
- 2 x 15’000 litre wash stills
- 2 x 5’400 litre spirit stills (type 1)
- 2 x 5’400 litre spirit stills (type 2)
We think this will give us about 7 million LPA of production capacity, and allow us to make three distinct styles of new make spirit. This will lead to us being able to make some really interesting whiskies for all whisky lovers to enjoy.
The Competition Winners
Here are the names of the NINE lucky people:
- Fred Bloggs from CITY NAME
- Fred Bloggs from CITY NAME
- Fred Bloggs from CITY NAME
- Fred Bloggs from CITY NAME
- Fred Bloggs fom CITY NAME
Jahye Lee
One of the first people to enter the draw and apparently assigned ticket number 11 is Jahye from South Korea. Sherry cask finished single malt Scotch is her whisky of choice.
Adam Schilpf
From and what whiskies
Birger Jensen
From and what whiskies
Terri Lightfoot
From and what whiskies
Rabbi Kuty Kalmenson
Rabbi Kuty from Ningbo has been in China for 9 years and his favourite styles of whisky are the ex-bourbon cask matured, floral Speyside whiskies.
Robin Chen
From and what whiskies
Venus Liu
From and what whiskies
Marc Debeer
From and what whiskies
Augustine Lung
From and what whiskies
The Golden Ticket