Amrut was founded in Bangalore in 1948 by Shri J.N. Radhakrishna under the name Amrut Laboratories. The distillery initially produced “Indian-made liquor”, foreign spirits such as rum, brandy and, from the 1980s, whisky, all produced in India. The current distillery was built in 1987 and its first single malt launched in Glasgow in 2004 after several years of experimentation.

Amrut Spectrum is a whisky aged first for three years in bourbon casks, then in a cask assembled from the staves of five different casks, one Oloroso, one Pedro Ximenez, and three French, Spanish and American new oak.