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Hammerhead 1989

Hammerhead 1989

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Hammerhead 1989

Hammerhead 1989

Lot number: 011243

Winning bid: £40

Hammer Head was made in 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, which changed Eastern Europe forever. It was produced in the Pradlo distillery in western Czechoslovakia, which had been making pot-still spirits for many years before experimenting with making single malt whisky.

Hammer Head is available from Stock Spirits, who purchased the distillery without knowing that the whisky even existed. Pradlo then acquired and installed a traditional cast iron hammer mill. Built in 1928, the mill was the same style and make as those found in most traditional Scottish distilleries at the time.

Only Czech barley and water from the Bohemia region. The whisky was aged in unique oak casks made of 100% Czech oak wood.

The Wall fell and the whisky was forgotten, left to sleep in the cellars in its unique casks for 20 years.

70cl and bottled at 40.7%

Featured in The 11th Auction, ended March 4, 2012

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