Our Story
Two friends. One bad idea.
Our Side Quest started, like many good whisky stories, on Islay. We're two friends from Germany who have been drinking whisky together for decades. Over time, conversations turned into trips to the island, trips turned into cask samples, and cask samples turned into a freshly filled cask from Islay in early 2025.
That should have been the end of it.
Instead, a few months later, we were offered an absolute dream cask: a Port Charlotte from July 2001, older and rarer than anything we had planned. So we said yes.
When we first met more than twenty years ago, we spent our evenings on side quests: the detours in games that were never the main objective but somehow became the best part. This project went the same way and kept getting bigger, more serious, and more absurd.
Side Quest bottles whisky we genuinely love, and we do it properly: cask strength, no chill-filtration, no added colour, and no pretending this was ever a sensible idea. Our first release will be available by the end of 2026.
Serious whisky. Not so serious attitude.
