Debt Collector is London's first bourbon-style whisky — produced at Doghouse Distillery in Battersea using a 75% corn mash bill with malted barley and rye, matured for three years in virgin charred American oak casks. Seven years in development, every step from milling to maturation takes place at the London distillery.
The bourbon-style approach is deliberate. Founder Braden Saunders, an Australian bourbon enthusiast, wanted to bring American-style whisky production to London. The result tastes remarkably bourbon-like — rich, sweet, with strong vanilla oak from the virgin barrels — though legally it is English whisky.
Debt Collector is a genuinely interesting English whisky that demonstrates how production method shapes character as much as geography. The bourbon-style mash bill and virgin oak create something that sits closer to Kentucky than to most English distilleries. A Battersea bourbon in everything but name.
