The Story of the Black Squirrel Distillery

A Global Whisky Project in the Making.

Not every distillery starts with copper stills.

Some begin with a question, a journey, and a few quietly laid-down casks.

The Black Squirrel Distillery is a long-term independent whisky project — built on patience, story, and collaboration. Each year, we fill a small number of casks by hand at select distilleries around the world, beginning in Scotland and gradually expanding to other whisky- and bourbon-producing regions.

Every cask matures where it was born, absorbing the character of its surroundings. In time, each will be bottled as a rare, single cask release – its origin, story, and journey carefully preserved.

Grains
Stills
Dunphail - stills
Eden mill -barrel fill cu
Dunphail - barrel store

We’ve already begun.

Seven casks filled.

Three distilleries visited

There’s more to come – Be Part of the Journey

Want to follow along as the project unfolds — or be first to know when the first bottles are ready?

As we know, good whisky takes time to mature… our new website follows this principle too – we will be adding a journal page recording our visits, progress and much more.


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