Joanne
10/22/2025 8:41:20 AM
4 mins read
Listen up: here’s an early Christmas present for those who love smoky whisky. Smokehead Original, a hero drink for those who love a bold, smoky, heavily-peated Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky, is on sale at Morrisons stores nationally, priced at £26.00 – down from Morrisons’ usual price of £40.50.
This whisky has been created for non-traditional whisky drinkers - those who have an appetite for something bold and different. You know how many whiskies are described as ‘smooth’? Not this one. Smokehead Original (ABV: 40%) is a whisky with attitude: it puts the creative spark back into single malts. The makers say: “Smokehead isn’t smooth; it’s savage”. Look out for the social media campaign featuring larger-than-life skull created from peat or from barley in a Scottish wildness which sparks into dramatic flames, indicative of the smoky notes in this whisky.
With intense smoke and notes of sea salt and spice, this is a vigorous whisky that stands out from the crowd - uncompromising, unexpected and defiantly different. Smokehead embodies a wild spirit that’s created for proud non-conformists - and the Morrisons promotional offer is a gift not to be missed.
The special price offer runs from 22 October until 31 October 2025, in time to stock up for Halloween and Day of the Dead adult entertaining as well as for festive gifts and Christmas hosting.
The grey flint bottle featuring a bold and distinctive skull motif is a sign of what lies within. This is a whisky to drink as you wish: there are no rules about how and when except to be drink aware.
Halloween / Day of the Dead Cocktail
Try the Phantom Alliance cocktail (pictured) which costs only £1.48 per serve to make at home and as this is built in the glass, you don’t even need a cocktail shaker.
Ingredients
50ml Smokehead Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky – original
23ml Triple sec
Ginger beer
Garnish – wedge of orange
Method
Fill a highball glass with ice. Add the Smokehead Whisky and Triple Sec. Stir. Top with ginger beer and garnish with the orange wedge.
Tasting notes:
Nose
Fiery with heavy, earthy peat and woodsmoke. Extremes of spices and sweetness – fresh lemon, zesty ginger and rich plum jam notes
Palate
An explosion of breathtaking peppery, peaty heat, soothed by honeyed sweetness, before the smoke comes to the fore again via notes of salt, spices, seaweed, and smoke
Finish
Exotic spices and a curious citrus tang of mandarin, both lulling you into a false sense of calm as the peat roars back to hit your senses again.
