100% made for mixing

Monkey Shoulder was originally created to make perfect whisky cocktails and has been getting
in the mix ever since.
Get a lovely whiff of zesty orange, vanilla, honey and spiced oak before tasting mellow vanilla with spicy hints as you enjoy a cheeky sip. Never one to stay quiet at a party, the smooth, malty and fruity character is bold enough to stand out in a drink, but balanced enough not to take it over.

“Richness and vibrancy combine with fruity aromas and mellow vanilla notes,
making it perfect for mixing”

BORN IN SCOTLAND

  • Monkey Shoulder is born of one of the oldest whisky making Scottish families in the world, William Grant & Sons. Still family owned today, William Grant & Sons has been distilling the finest Scotch whiskies since 1887.
  • Early in the 2000’s the team at William Grants recognised an opportunity to bring the world of Scotch to a much bigger audience through championing cocktails and mixed drinks as a new way to enjoy Scotch.

    With this brief in mind, an epic blend of Scotch malt whiskies were chosen to create the perfect whisky for mixing and as you will see from our bottle the blend that was chosen was called batch 27.
  • At the time the idea of blending only malt whiskies was a novel one because blends usually included some grain whisky. But our perfect blend didn’t and so we ended up creating a new category of Scotch ‘a blend of malts’ that no one else had ever released before.
  • ‘Batch 27’ didn’t have the snappiest ring to it and instead we named our whisky Monkey Shoulder in tribute to our whisky heritage and in 2003 we set out to give the whisky world a good old fashioned shake up.

    The rest, as they say, is history!

  • what’s in a name?

    Okay, so where did ‘Monkey Shoulder’ come from? Well, in the traditional malt whisky making process, malted barley is turned by hand by malt men using large heavy malt shovels. Years ago, some malt men would develop a strain injury which had a tendency to cause their arm to hang down a bit like a monkey's, so they nicknamed it 'monkey shoulder'. Thankfully, the condition no longer exists but we're still proud to honour our whisky heritage.

Get Mixing

Long or short? Sweet or sour? Sunny afternoon or late night after party? Our bartenders have been monkeying around with a list of classic cocktails to lift the spirits and suit your mood. Ready? So let’s get mixing.

Ginger Monkey

lazy old fashioned

monkey splash

Ginger Monkey

rob roy

boulevadier #3

espresso martini

 

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