Living: BBC Radio Humberside at Spirit of Yorkshire - Spirit Of Yorkshire

Sally Fairfax from BBC Radio Humberside came to visit us yesterday (24th October) – Joe gave her a tour of the Distillery, discussing our ethos, why we’ve done what we’ve done, and our aims and ambitions. The interview is available for the next couple of weeks so if you’d like to listen, then please click here

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Breaking our series of Finishes posts, to bring you Filey Bay Yorkshire Day 2022, as Joe and Jenni have been at the House of Lords for a “Yorkshire Reception,” celebrating innovation, enterprise and culture in the county.

Naturally we couldn’t resist a shot of the bottle with Big Ben in the background!

Tasting notes: boiled sweets, cinder toffee, dried sweets and orange zest
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For our Filey Bay Peated Finishes, we've brought the west coast of Scotland to the east coast of England to 'finish' our whisky in ex-peated casks from Islay.

During maturation, our light and fruity style weaves into the creamy, subtly smoked wood of the casks, creating delicious coastal whiskies that hold flavours of vanilla and caramel.

Batch #2 won a coveted World Whisky Master in 2022 and sold through very quickly. Batch #3 is in cask maturing as we speak and will be in bottles later this year.
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Further to last night's post, we're staying with the 'finished' theme.

Filey Bay STR Finish is a visually striking whisky because of the deep colour it draws from the STR (Shaved, Toasted, Recharred) ex-red wine casks.

It tastes as good as it looks too. Light, floral and fruity with flavours of red fruits, vanilla ice cream and toasted oak.

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The finishing process is intensive and time-consuming but well worth the effort as it adds layers of flavour and complexity to our light, sweet and fruity ex-bourbon house style.

Multi award-winning Filey Bay Moscatel Finish was initially matured in 200L bourbon casks filled in 2016 before being transferred to 250L Hogshead barrels from Spain that had contained Moscatel floral and aromatic naturally sweet sherry wine for 10 years before this.

It's soft, sweet and fruity with notes of orange, honey, dried fruits and cocoa, and we love it!

Our Tasting Experience Pack is a great way to compare and contrast the house style of Filey Bay Flagship alongside Moscatel and STR Finishes. Link in bio.

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Filey Bay Flagship: The true taste of our distillery character.

Whether you’re new to whisky or an experienced collector with a well-honed palate, you’ll appreciate the nuanced and subtle flavours of our ex-Bourbon matured Flagship single malt whisky.

Approachable and welcoming, this is a whisky for everyone, and we’ll be growing, distilling and maturing it for as long as you want to enjoy it!

Find out more about Filey Bay Flagship on our lovely new website. Link in bio.

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A proper #throwbackthursday today as we look back three years to 27th March 2020 when the Pot Still Coffee Shop and Distillery Shop were closed but Dave was still distilling, and we started making a lot more videos…!
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It’s Mother’s Day on Sunday (19th). In this part of Yorkshire we can recommend a number of brilliant independent florists and growers. We’ll hazard a guess that wherever you are, there’ll be some great places near you too.

For flower arrangements, @LisasFloristSelby and @FlowerMerchant also stock our whisky in store, making them brilliant one-stop-shops in Selby and Market Weighton respectively! The wonderful Helen (@flowers.rosebud) is responsible for the flowers around the distillery, most of which are grown by her. Flowers by Jenny (@flowersbyjennybrid) is a favourite of the team too.

For pots and bulbs, try your local nursery – Reighton Nurseries is literally two minutes up the road from the distillery, or Eastfield Garden Centre (@eastfieldgardencentre), Moss and Moor (@MossandMoor) and Tong Garden Centre (@tong_garden_centre) are long time stockists of Filey Bay as well.

Lastly, if you’re looking for local growers, @FlowersfromtheFarm has a brilliant local search tool on their website too.

Thanks to Eastfield Garden Centre and Flower Merchant for the pics!
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Now that the snow is gone and the sun is (almost) out, Whisky Director Joe shares his choice of Filey Bay Single Malt for this time of year. Makes a great Mother’s Day gift alongside some freshly picked daffs and whatever greenery you can find
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Today we're looking back to December 2019, when we presented John, the winner of our prize draw to win the first ever bottle of Filey Bay Whisky, with bottle number 1. Thanks again to Pete for the amazing wooden case! If you'd like to see it, John very kindly loaned it back to us at the distillery and it's on display in the shop.
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Filey Bay Flagship - the backbone of our distillery and an extremely well travelled whisky…
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What a gang (and a shout out to those behind the scenes too, the ones who magically melt away whenever a camera comes out…)
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“Florals? For Spring? Groundbreaking!”

But that’s because it works! Mother’s Day, the first day of Spring, and beautifully bright spring bulbs really do go brilliantly together, especially when accompanied by a bottle of light and fruity Filey Bay Flagship…

We love flowers here at the distillery, brewery and on the farm – something we hope you’ve noticed if you’ve been for lunch or a tour, or just bobbed in to pick something up.

Our late Director Gill was a horticulturist and created an incredible garden from nothing at Hunmanby Grange (the farm), as well as designing many gardens locally too. She brought a love of all things floral and botanic to Kate and me (her two daughters) and so I wanted to come out behind the ‘fourth wall’ of social media today to talk about flowers and Mother’s Day.

Nothing makes me happier than someone telling me they have a-this or a-that plant on her recommendation, and that they think of her whenever they look at it. She was my personal plant wiki – I’d send a picture to her of a plant and immediately get a response back with its common name, latin name and an interesting fact too.

Mum and Rebecca (Thompson, also a Director) together devised and planted the beautiful landscaping at the distillery too, with year round colour and interest, which was always so important to her when it came to garden design. They had great fun one summer planting the Filey Bay and Spirit of Yorkshire Dahlias in old casks by the main door, named and bred just for us by customer Bob Hendley.

Mum was passionate about supporting local industries, especially those doing things from scratch. So for this coming Mother’s Day, if you’re looking to send some blooms (alongside your bottle of Filey Bay or Cream Liqueur of course!) then please do look and think local first.

Over the next week or so we’ll be doing some posts highlighting some great Yorkshire (and further afield) florists, nurseries and garden centres, where you can get something to dazzle the mum-figure in your life, as well as often picking up a bottle of Filey Bay.

And if it’s a difficult day for you, know that we’ll be raising a dram with you too.

In good spirit,

Jenni Xx

Where in the world is David…?
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Lots of trying, tasting, testing, talking happening here this week in preparation for a busy spring… make sure you’re signed up to the newsletter to be the first to hear things over the next couple of months!

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It’s World Book Day! What are you reading alongside your dram tonight? (A few of the team’s favourites here… we’ve “eclectic” tastes!)
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Not long now until we'll be drilling our Spring Barley. The amount of barley we plant each year changes depending on field rotations; for 2023 we'll be growing just over 100 hectares (10 points if you can convert that to acres in your head!) all planted with a direct drill. Later in March we'll be doing a series of blog and social posts about how we're farming – covering everything from rotations to soil structure and why that's important for great tasting whisky & beer. Because that's what we're growing this barley for!

(These pics are from the past couple of years. It's actually chucking it down here right now).
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Photo credit shots 1 & 3: @ChrisMansonVisuals for @WoldTopBrew

We’ve said it once before but it bears repeating… the winter (almost spring) afternoon light in the warehouse is something else.
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A touch of spice and boiled sweets on the finish, Filey Bay Sherry Cask Reserve #3 marries five ex-Fino casks carefully selected from our warehouse.
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When the drill comes out, exciting things are happening…!
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