Raising Glasses Return of the Yowie 18yr Rum

Raising Glasses is an American independent bottler run by Lorri and John, a husband-and-wife team of longtime Scotch collectors who select their own casks and bottle them in 375ml under their own label, and Return of the Yowie, number 22 in their Folklore Series, is their third cask from Beenleigh Artisan Distillers in Eagleby, Queensland, after the original Yowie and The Yowie Strikes Back. The Yowie casks come from Beenleigh's 2006 era, when the distillery still fermented with an indigenous Schizosaccharomyces pombe yeast that was discontinued in 2010; the strain was slow and low-yielding but threw an unusual amount of flavor compounds, which is why these old Beenleigh casks have become collector items. This one is a molasses pot still rum aged 18 years, with most of that time in the Queensland heat before the cask moved to the UK, bottled in 2025 at cask strength with no sugar, coloring or additives, from a very small outturn of 52 bottles. The earlier 16-year Yowie from the same vintage was described by the bottler as herbally potent and elegant, with eucalyptus, tangerine and molasses funk and a dry finish. Five percent of profits go to North Queensland Animal Rescue. 375ml bottle.

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