While we don’t like to give too many of our master distillery secrets away, we can let you in on some of the processes we go through to bring you the Manx spirits you know and love.
ManX Manx Spirit
We start with a pure malt whisky. This is brought straight to our Sulby distillery from our Scottish neighbours.
We begin by re-distilling the whisky, which we bring in at around 60% ABV.
From there we separate the spirit that comes over during distillation into its different fractions. Then we extract a portion of the neutral alcohol that doesn’t have much of a taste or a smell and re-combine the other fractions to our taste, so the flavours are more intense (this is similar to a chef reducing a sauce or stock to enhance the flavours) and the result is outstanding. We create a refined, colourless spirit which embodies the best of the raw spirit while delivering flavours and notes that make ManX the spirit you know and love.
Bifrost
Bifrost begins with a beautiful VS Cognac from André Petit – a fellow small, family run distillery in France, we think long and hard about our ingredients, and can safely say we got it right with this one. When we first tried the spectacular André Petit Cognac we knew we could do something magical with it. After a process of testing with our still – Bifrost was born.
We redistill the Cognac in our specialised still, and from there combine the fractions to our taste – producing our flavoursome Bifrost.