Oak & Ember
Oak & Ember was founded by friends Ben Hunt and Lewis Simper after an idea took shape on a delayed flight home from one of their annual trips to the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival. Both were already deep into whisky and the culture around it, but starting a distillery was out of reach, so they looked for another way in. Ben brought a background in purchasing, Lewis in graphic design, and the pair turned that conversation into a Bristol-based brand built around whisky, travel and time spent outdoors.
Their Traveller sets and Flight flasks are a smart answer to a fairly obvious problem: good whisky is easy to enjoy at home and surprisingly awkward to take anywhere else. The flasks use premium glass interiors rather than metal, wrapped in protective silicone sleeves so they travel well without compromising the flavour of what’s inside. There’s also a write-on panel for labelling each whisky, which makes particular sense when you’re carrying a few different drams. The result feels notably more current than most whiskyware, a category still crowded with drab, old-fashioned designs. These guys keep the ritual, but give it a much cleaner, more modern edge.
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