Nc’nean Quiet Rebels - Simon

We love this organic, certified (with extremely high score) B Corp distillery, powered by 100% renewable energy. We also love their Quiet Rebels series, celebrating the humans behind the whisky with releases selected by, and named after, members of the team in the order in which they joined. Still unreleased at the time of writing, it’s now the turn of Simon (alongside a non-whisky Sarah, an oat-based whisky cream liqueur).

Simon here means distiller Simon Hewitt, who trained as a chef, has walked the length of New Zealand and North America, has dabbled in bee-keeping, and is a self-proclaimed beer fanatic. The final fact is the important one, as his very own Nc’nean single malt – distilled between 2017-2020 – started life in shaved, toasted and re-charred (STR) red wine casks, but was finished in stout casks from famed Scottish brewery Innis & Gunn.