PRESS RELEASE: Signature Edition ELEVEN

St. Kilian Distillers Focuses on the Unique Reflux Condenser with the Signature Edition ELEVEN

Rüdenau, October 2022
Every Signature Edition at St. Kilian Distillers has an individual character and always celebrates a very special theme. "After focusing on special casks or different malt blends, as featured in the award-winning Signature Edition Ten, in this case, we focused on the reflux condenser in the lyne arm of our spirit still," explains Managing Director Philipp Trützler. This reflux condenser represents a unique technical finesse at St. Kilian. It describes a cooling coil installed in the slightly rising lyne arm, the connecting pipe from the spirit pot still to the condenser. If cooling water flows through the reflux condenser, the rising vapors can be condensed before reaching the actual cooler, flow back into the still, and are thus distilled again. With the help of this additional cooling device, the reflux can be precisely varied. "An extremely practical addition to our distillation equipment," says Master Distiller Mario Rudolf with satisfaction, "because reflux has a decisive influence on the spirit." By using the reflux condenser in different ways, various characteristics can be generated in the new make, which, for example, affect the smokiness, mouthfeel, and sweetness of the spirit. A strong reflux thus ensures a softer new make, as was used for the Signature Edition Eleven.

Signature Edition ELEVEN

Although peated malt from Scotland with 54 ppm was used, the Signature Edition Eleven is only mildly smoky. "With maximum reflux, the new make is less smoky, and the remaining smoke is better integrated. This makes the spirit softer, sweeter, more pleasing, and already has a great mouthfeel. In this way, you get a wonderfully rounded single malt after just three years," Mario Rudolf notes with satisfaction. For the Signature Edition Eleven, the casks were somewhat in the background. Exclusively 190-liter ex-Tennessee whiskey casks from Jack Daniel's were used, which gave the single malt a creamy vanilla sweetness and spicy oak notes. Neither chill-filtered nor colored and with an optimal drinking strength of 46.2% Vol., this three-year-old single malt whisky presents itself with a mild-fruity sweetness of vanilla, fresh citrus notes, and grilled apricots, garnished with a fine oak spice and rounded off with subtly dry ash components – all perfectly enveloped in mild, warming peat smoke.

Sales Start October 15, 2022

A total of 8,340 bottles of the Signature Edition Eleven, in the iconic still shape, were bottled. The retail price for consumers is €49.90. The premiere of the new edition took place on Saturday, October 15, as part of the large online whiskey tasting live from the stillhouse of Germany's largest whiskey distillery. The Signature Edition Eleven is now available in St. Kilian Distillers' online shop, on-site at the distillery, and will soon be available at selected retailers.

Tasting Notes: Signature Edition ELEVEN

APPEARANCE
Straw-colored

AROMA
Mild peat smoke combines with a sweet mélange of vanilla and toasted malt, refined with ripe banana, citrus aromas, and juicy apricot fruit, complemented by subtly dry ash notes.

TASTE
The mild-fruity sweetness of vanilla cream, fresh citrus notes, banana, and grilled apricots is underscored by pleasantly warming bonfire smoke and spicy oak notes, garnished with a pinch of cayenne pepper.

FINISH
Long and wonderfully warming with malty sweetness, ash notes, and a hint of allspice, as well as fine, spicy smoke with a touch of grilled apricot.

ALCOHOL CONTENT:
46.2% vol

RRP:
€ 49.90 (0.5l)

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About St. Kilian Distillers GmbH

Germany's largest whisky distillery from Rüdenau in Lower Franconia, near Miltenberg am Main, produces top-class whisky that has been awarded numerous gold medals at the most renowned whisky competitions around the globe. In addition, awards such as "Distillery of the Year" and "Whisky of the Year" attest to the international top level that the distillery, founded only in 2012 by investment banker Andreas Thümmler and thus still young, has now reached with its whiskies. St. Kilian Distillers supports responsible alcohol consumption, which you can read about at https://www.massvoll-geniessen.de/. Further information about the company and its portfolio can be found at stkdev.lichtschreiber.de.

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