Our Grains

Nestled in the heart of picturesque Parkland County, Alberta our farm is located in the heart of some of the best barley growing conditions in the world. In fact, the Province of Alberta grows more barley than any country in the Western Hemisphere and almost three times more than Scotland.

Anohka was started with the intention of showing that we have a tremendous opportunity to make some of the best whisky in the world in the same place where we have some of the best growing conditions in the world.

On our 110 acre farm we grow our own barley without the use of glyphosate or pesticides as a part of a 3 year rotation, along with Wheat and Canola. We have a portion of our crop malted by a local farm based maltster, Hammer Malt, and make a variety of different styles of whisky from our barley, including single pot still, single malt and grain whiskies.

The grains with which we work also include local malted barley, peated malt from Simpsons, rye, malted rye, our own wheat. We hope to one day experiment with local corn and oats as we use a mash filter to mash our grains, meaning that we can make whisky from any grain or any mash bill.

We have discovered a large peat bog on our farm and are working on developing a limited release of a peated whisky from our own barley and our own peat!