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Killowen Rum & Raisin Single Malt (Non-Peated)

Killowen Rum & Raisin Single Malt (Non-Peated)

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Distillery: Killowen Distillery
Type: Irish
Age: 5 Years
ABV: 55%
Price: £49.95

Tasting Notes

Nose

Tropical dried fruits, PX sherry sweetness. Desiccated coconut, overnight oats. Vanilla backbone from the ex-bourbon base. Soft, creamy, inviting.

Palate

Rum and raisin front and centre — rum-soaked raisins, gingerbread spice, coconut. Caramelised fruit from the rum casks. A dessert whiskey with tropical, caramelised warmth. At 55% cask strength, no chill filtration.

Finish

Spiced rum warmth, dark chocolate, nutty oak. Lovely warmth that spreads across the mouth.

Killowen Rum & Raisin (non-peated) takes sourced five-year-old single malt from Great Northern Distillery, finishes it in PX sherry butts and dark rum casks, and bottles at 55% cask strength. The non-peated version is the sweeter, more dessert-like sibling of the peated Rum & Raisin.

Without peat to compete, the PX and rum influences dominate — tropical fruit, coconut, rum-soaked raisins. The effect is genuinely like rum raisin in whiskey form — sweet, tropical, indulgent. The 55% cask strength ensures maximum flavour intensity without chill filtration.

Killowen Rum & Raisin Non-Peated is a dessert whiskey of genuine quality. The PX and rum finishing on the clean Great Northern malt creates something unashamedly sweet and tropical. For after-dinner sipping and for anyone who enjoys the sweeter side of whiskey, it is irresistible.

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Sienna Blackwell
Sienna Blackwell
World Whiskey Editor

Sienna came to whiskey via the American craft distilling movement — she spent three years working harvest seasons at distilleries across Kentucky, Tennessee, and Oregon before turning to writing full-...

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