Independent Bottler - Little Brown Dog Spirits

Little Brown Dog Spirits Limited is an independent bottler and micro distillery based in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

They take their name from Andrew’s beloved dog, who’s nickname was the little brown dog. She followed him everywhere on all his distillery visits and was his constant companion. She passed away in 2022 aged 15 but lives on in spirit. Two more little brown dogs, Winnie and Peedie joined the team in 2020 and 2023.

Chris and Andrew formed the company in 2018. Based on Chris’s farm where they combine a passion for their surrounding area with in depth knowledge (read intense geekery) of distilling and cask maturation. 

Their goal is simple, make the best tasty things.

Whether that’s selecting the best single, most interesting single casks, or bringing a level of detail and transparency to rectified distilled spirits that is quite uncommon.

Their distillery is smaller than most. They distill and bottle on site using a 10 litre copper pot still, called the wee dug, and a 100 litre big dug for the rectification of GNS. They have modified the still to operate as they want them and have manuafctured their own cooling systems and copper botanical basket to gently extract the aromatics in the fresh botanicals.

As independent bottlers they make the most of their on site maturation warehouse, giving them much more control of their casks and allowing them to closely monitor the progress of each cask held there and bottle them at their peak.

With SDV accreditation for maturation, bottling and labelling they can also provide bottling services. Get in touch for more information.