Alberta distillery takes home best new spirit prize at World Whiskies Awards

Gurpreet Ranu from Anohka Distillery takes home best new spirit at the World Whiskies Awards in London, England. March 20, 2024.A young Alberta distillery just took home a huge title at the World Whiskies Awards in London, England, beating out submissions from Scotland, Ireland, Japan and the U.S.won “World’s Best New Make & Young Spirit” for its “This is Not Whisky” heavily peated single malt spirit.

In order to qualify for the world awards, spirits have to win their national competition. This is the second year Anohka has been nominated at the World Whiskies Awards.“They called all the nominees up to the stage and I looked around and I saw who I was up against, and these are veterans in the industry… titans in the industry. I’m looking around and … I don’t really feel like I belong on this stage but if we win, I mean, amazing,” he said.

“The most ridiculous thing that we do is after we have our fermentation and we create our wash to distill it, we basically have a 1,000-litre Molotov cocktail and we light a giant fire underneath it to heat it. And that’s an inherently silly thing to do,” Ranu said with a smile.

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