Our Story
Two friends. One bad idea. Very good whisky.
Side Quest started, like many questionable whisky decisions, on Islay. We're two friends from Germany who've been drinking whisky together for decades. At some point, conversations turned into trips, trips turned into cask samples, and cask samples turned into a freshly filled Islay cask in early 2025.
That should have been the end of it.
Instead, shortly afterwards, we were offered something far beyond what we had in mind and an absolute dream cask. A Port Charlotte from July 2001 - older, rarer, and much more ambitious than anything we had planned. So we said yes - and what started as a side quest quickly became the main one.
Side Quest is about bottling whisky we genuinely love, and doing it properly: cask strength, no chill-filtration, no added colour, and no need to pretend this was ever a sensible idea. Our first release arrives this autumn.
Serious whisky. Not so serious attitude.
