The Glasgow Distillery, a Lowland Scotch whisky producer in Glasgow, Scotland, released a 10 year old single malt finished in a used tequila cask on November 12, 2026, limited to 230 bottles at 55 percent ABV.
The bottling, called Glasgow 1770 Tequila Cask Finish 10 Year Old, is the first release under a refreshed identity for the distillery's loyalty program, The Glasgow Distillery Community, and is sold only through the distillery's own website at a retail price of 59 British pounds.
What is in the bottle
The whisky comes from a single cask, numbered 16/856, that began its life in a first fill ex bourbon barrel. According to The Whiskey Wash, the spirit spent four years and six months in that bourbon cask before being transferred into a single ex tequila cask for a further five years and six months, bringing the total maturation to ten years. The Whisky Wire reported that the resulting whisky carries notes of pineapple, citrus zest, vanilla and white pepper. Neither outlet, nor the distillery's own materials, names the tequila producer, brand or NOM number associated with the cask.
How Glasgow Distillery has used tequila casks before
This is not the distillery's first experiment with tequila wood. In August 2021, Glasgow Distillery introduced a Tequila Cask Finish and a Cognac Cask Finish as the opening two releases in a Small Batch Series, a project credited to co-founder Mike Hayward and priced at 59 pounds, with UK availability from specialist retailers and export to Germany. A later batch, an unpeated triple distilled Tequila Cask Finish bottled on June 27, 2023, yielded 272 bottles at 55.3 percent ABV, with the distillery describing notes of agave, pineapple and vanilla drawn from an initial two years and nine months in a first fill ex bourbon barrel followed by a two year finish in the tequila barrel. The new 10 year old Community Exclusive is the third Glasgow 1770 release built around a tequila finishing cask, and the first to carry a double digit age statement.
What the new Community identity includes
The whisky launch doubles as a rebrand of the distillery's customer club. The Glasgow Distillery has partnered with Glasgow based clothing brand Urban Pirate to produce a new line of Community merchandise, including T shirts and hoodies carrying the updated branding, according to The Whiskey Wash and The Whisky Wire. Each bottle of the new release ships in a redesigned gift carton that includes stickers featuring Community branded characters alongside tasting notes and bottling details, which members can use to personalize their own packaging. The Glasgow Distillery, founded in 2014, has described itself as the first independent producer to make single malt whisky in the city in more than a century, alongside its Makar Gin range.
What this means
None of the coverage reviewed for this story, nor the distillery's own release notes, identifies which tequila house's barrels were used for the 16/856 cask or any of Glasgow 1770's earlier tequila finished batches. That gap is common in whisky marketing built around secondary casks from other spirits categories, and it leaves open a basic question for anyone tracking where used tequila barrels end up once they leave Jalisco: whether they are sold directly by a producer, brokered through a cooperage, or sourced some other way is not stated here and remains unverified.