It is official; Drayman’s Brewery is now also Drayman’s Distillery. The ceremonial sealing of the spirit receiver and registering of the potstill was executed by Customs & Excise on 27 July 2006, after two years of planning.

Drayman’s, a micro-brewery based in Silverton, now also distills, blends and matures Scottish style malt whisky. Never before in the history has this nectar of the ancient alchemists been made on the Highveld of South Africa. After 10 years of brewing pure malt beer, making pure malt, postill whisky, seems to be a natural progression for Moritz Kallmeyer, owner, brewer and distiller of Drayman’s.
Drayman’s Single Malt Whisky and Drayman’s Solera Whisky are the two whiskies that are made. The Single Malt by law has to be matured for at least 3 years but may well only be released after 5 years. In the mean time whisky aficionado’s can indulge in Drayman’s Solera Whisky. This is a unique blend of imported Scotch Whiskies with high malt content that are further solera matured at Drayman’s in French oak barrels. The solera whiskies are not sold in the usual bottle, but in a 5 L miniature oak barrel that has been specially coopered to continually mature the whisky. The introductory offer is R877.19 excluding VAT and including the specially coopered oak cask.