Bruichladdich Bere Barley is the newest whiskey to be released from Bruichladdich & has been created in traditional Bruichladdich style with a fantastic story behind it involving Vikings, exploring, the ancient world & supposedly the original species of Barley. Bere Barley is said to be the first form of barley ever, brought over to Islay when the Vikings came centuries ago. It is a much denser & richer form of barley than the modern style, which caused a lot of distilling problems at the Bruichladdich distillery. However it is the latest installation of the core mission at Bruichladdich, which is to push & explore the boundaries of single malts. Distilled my Master Distiller Jim Mc Ewan, & aged for around 6 years, this single malt is a new breed of whisky, which like most new breeds, comes in short supply & normally not for too long, especially with only 7, 200 bottles being distilled from this first batch. It is an unpeated whisky that has the colour of straw & like all Bruichladdich products, it has not been chill filtered nor had any artificial colouring added to it.