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Little Brown Dog Glen Elgin 13 Year Old


Sale price$551.00

Key Facts About This Whisky

Bottler: Little Brown Dog

Distillery: Glen Elgin

Region: Speyside, Scotland

Age: 13 years old

Distilled: 13/02/2012

Bottled: 20/02/2025

Spirit: Single malt scotch whisky

Cask Type: American Oak first fill oloroso sherry

Alcohol by Volume: Cask strength, 58.2%

Bottled: Natural colour and without chill filtration

Outturn: 289 bottles

Bottle Size: 700ml

Glen Elgin 13 Year old Tasting Notes

Colour: Braeburn Apple.

Nose: Sweet cicely, coriander seed, bramble jelly.

Palate: Jam roly poly, alpine strawberries, cola cubes.

Finish: Sorrel, lemon zest, Jägermeister.

About this Little Brown Dog release

Rally cars and whisky, a tenuous link you say. But it was a scabby old Peugeot 205 rally car, poking out of a shed that started Chris and Andrew’s friendship back in 2007, and a mere 11 years later Little Brown Dog became a thing.

So for their 3rd rally car inspired label they’ve not gone for any famous Subarus or Lancias, but their very own 1993 BMW M3. Quite possibly the cheapest amount you can spend on a car for the greatest amount of fun.

And, it’s now a rally winning car! Not only are Little Brown Dog Scotland’s current independent bottlers of the year, they are also class S3 winners at the McDonald and Munro Speyside Stages Rally 2025.

Now if that isn’t worthy of a celebratory bottling, what is? Bottled to celebrate their return to rallying after an 18 year absence, or because they thought it was an absolute cracker of a single cask Glen Elgin… The Speyside Stages were based in Elgin, so that was a good enough excuse for Andrew and Chris to do another rally label.

First fill oloroso sherry but with American oak rather than more common (to sherry casks) European oak, so the delicate Speyside distillate isn’t overwhelmed by the wood. Beautifully fruity, well balanced and a super interesting herbal note that weaves in and out.

Little Brown Dog Glen Elgin 13 Year Old
Little Brown Dog Glen Elgin 13 Year Old Sale price$551.00
Chris Reid, Little Brown Dog Spirits
Dr Andrew Smith, Little Brown Dog Spirits

Meet The Founders

Dr Andrew Smith and Chris Reid

Little Brown Dog Spirits was founded by Dr Andrew Smith and Chris Reid. They run an independent bottler and micro-distillery based in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

They take their name from Andrew’s beloved dog, whose nickname was the little brown dog. She followed him everywhere on all his distillery visits and was his constant companion. She passed away in 2022 aged 15 but lives on in spirit. Two more little brown dogs, Winnie and Peedie joined the team in 2020 and 2023.

Chris and Andrew started Little Brown Dog in 2018. Based on Chris’s farm they combine a passion for their surrounding area with in-depth knowledge (read intense geekery!) of distilling and cask maturation.