Masthouse Column Malt is Copper Rivet's more experimental expression — using their custom-built 40-plate column still to distill malted barley rather than the pot stills used for the standard single malt. The column still produces a lighter, cleaner spirit with different flavour compounds than pot distillation.
The column distillation gives the malt a lighter, more delicate character. Where the pot-distilled Masthouse Single Malt has more body and intensity, the Column Malt is breezier and more delicate — sweet cream, pear, banana — with the 40-plate column adding punchy, distinctive flavours.
Masthouse Column Malt is an interesting experiment in how distillation method shapes malt whisky. The column-still approach produces something recognisably different from pot distillation, though most reviewers prefer the fuller pot-distilled single malt. As a study in English distilling innovation, it has genuine value.
