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Eddu Silver

Hep ijin, nep krouadur

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@markjedi1Review by @markjedi1

4th Feb 2018

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  • Brand: Eddu
  • ABV: 40%

Next to the Eddu Grey Rock – a blended grain – the distillery also has the Grey Rock Brocéliande, Silver, Silver Brocéliande, Gold and Ed Gwenn. Let’s try the Silver, which is a single grain, distilled from 100% buckwheat.

The nose is candy like sweet and shows some vanilla, salty olive oil, but mostly… err.. apple cider! Could it be that they matured their spirit on the same small French casks that they also use for their cider. That’s not even far-fetched. But the result is mediocre.

Very sweet on the palate, but again with that weird salty edge. Good fun if not for the immediate chemical sweetness that rears its ugly head. Some apples and litchi with some star anise and cinnamon. Unfortunately it turns into rosewater and perfume from the second sip on.

The finish is mercifully short on litchi, honey, nutmeg, cinnamon and… cognac.

'Hep ijin, nep krouadur' is Britton for ‘without imagination, no creation’. And while I like the idea of a buckwheat whisky, the taste does not make me smile. 40 EUR best spent elsewhere.

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