Innis & Gunn has launched The Original: XX Edition, matured in a single malt whisky cask, to celebrate the Scottish brewer’s 20th anniversary.
A 7.7% ABV beer, the casks for The Original: XX Edition were laid down the year that Innis & Gunn launched, 2003. Before being filled with this brew, these casks had brimmed with a deliciously rare and flavourful 20-year-old Speyside single malt.
This exclusive 20th anniversary celebration brew has a signature smooth body, with moreishness and notes of vanilla, toffee, and spicy oak.
“Launching The Original way back in 2003 by maturing our beer in single-malt whisky casks seemed like an act of revolution,” said Dougal Gunn-Sharp, founder and master brewer at Innis & Gunn.
“The interaction of beers with oak had all manner of historic forebears, but it seemed that none of those brewers had wanted the flavour of the oak cask to influence the flavour of the final beer. I wanted the opposite. After all, if oak of many different provenances and fillings can add such complexity and intrigue to whiskies and wines, then why should the same not be true for beer?
“Twenty years after Innis & Gunn’s launch, we are maturing this celebration beer in casks of a 20-year-old Speyside whisky of real elegance. And we have produced an exceptional union of beer and oak with this limited edition of Innis & Gunn Original.”
