Goalong

The founder of Goalong Distillery, Mr Alan Gao, had been dreaming of his own Whisky distillery for some time and distilled Goalong Single Malt Whiskey - The Laboratory in 2016. The distillery was built in 2019 and started production in 2020. It can now store 6,666 casks and has a wide range of different casks for maturation. The storage was designed to represent the four seasons of the Chinese region of Changsha.

The Whisky is distilled in five small 5-tonne pot stills. The special thing about the pot stills is that they were built using a hybrid construction of stainless steel and copper. They are not heated with steam, but with highly heated oil, which is pumped through the stills in heat exchangers. This technology allows the stills to be heated to 140° Celsius. It enables the master distiller to add notes of toast and malt to the flavours of the raw spirit.