Essentially the idea is pretty simple; take an empty bottle and put in the last few drops of bottles of whisky you finish over the years to create your own blend to serve to friends, colleagues, family, whoever as your own whisky, topping up with subsequent drops of future bottles to keep the blend evolving and the flavours weaving together.

I was reading a great article on Punch Drink as I was having my beard reshaped the other day (yes beard reshaping is a ‘thing’), and they had a big feature on how to do it and what it is when I realised that I had been doing it for a while without realising creating your own infinity bottle of Scotch whisky was a ‘thing’ practiced all over the world.

Last year I was ‘making space’ in one of my cupboards of whisky before a pending house-move so decided to put a load of unfinished Irish whiskey samples and bottle-ends into a new 700ml bell bottle I had lying around from a consulting project to see what happened when they married together, you can see a swift video of the experiment here.

I’m yet to revisit the resulting whiskey in truth as it was promptly packed away after filming ahead of the aforementioned move and all my amber nectar is still in boxes until next week when my office will be finished and they can be unpacked, but I cannot wait, and am sure the additional time will allow the marriage of flavours just a little bit more. Or it could be awful. We shall see.

Now I’m all settled into the new house, the bottles are being gradually unboxed and I find more bottles that have levels far too low to justify their space on my lovely new shelves, I’m starting a new take on an infinity bottle; The Living Infinity (Mini) Barrel.