Auchroisk 11 Years Old 2011 Anime/Manga (Sexywhisky)

Bottled by Sexywhisky in 2022 as the 11 year old Anime/Manga themed release from 2011 vintage Auchroisk, with just 8 bottles distributed to the German market at cask strength of 52.8%. Sexywhisky is a German independent bottling project known for stylised illustrated label artwork themed around pop culture and entertainment, with tiny outturns and bold visual identity.

Distilled in 2011 at the Mulben distillery built by Justerini & Brooks in 1974, the wash was made from 100% unpeated malted barley with soft Dorie's Well water and fermented for around 53 hours in stainless steel washbacks. Auchroisk runs the spirit through four wash and four spirit stills with constricted lyne arms, encouraging high reflux that returns heavier compounds back to the pot. Shell and tube condensers give further copper contact, stripping sulphur compounds, with the spirit collected at around 70% ABV and filled into ex-Bourbon American oak.

Eleven years in temperate Speyside warehousing developed primary ester profile alongside measured oak extraction. Vanillin from lignin breakdown gave vanilla, cis and trans oak lactones added coconut and sweet wood, and char layer interaction produced furfural with Maillard derived caramelised sugars. The 8 bottle outturn represents a tiny cask sample bottling at 52.8%, with American oak influence layered over the spirit's signature light, ester forward profile.