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Aberfeldy Distillery

Aberfeldy is a picturesque Highland town, famous for the raising of the Black Watch Highland Regiment following the '45 Jacobite Uprising. A famous bridge, designed by William Adam and built by General Wade spans the River Tay at the edge of the town The distillery was built by the Dewar brothers, the Perth based blending firm famous for the "White Label" brand, in 1896. The distillery now boasts a visitor centre and whisky museum dedicated to "The World of Dewar's".

Blair Athol Distillery

The distillery is located at the southern edge of Pitlochry in Perthshire. The site is thought to have housed an illicit still in the late 18th Century, but the earliest documentary evidence dates from 1825.
It was rebuilt in 1949, when whisky production restarted.
The whiskies are gently peaty with aroma and flavour, which lingers on at the finish.

Deanston Distillery

Deanston, located at Doune near Stirling, is a Highland distillery by only a few miles.
The distillery occupies a former cotton mill. The building was built in 1785 and designed by Robert Arkwright . Robert Arkwright was the designer of the spinning frame that caused riots in Lancashire in the 1760’s. Extensive restructuring took place in 1836. This work included the provision of a vaulted weaving shed, which is now a maturation warehouse.
The distillery conversion took place in 1965/66, prospering in the ‘70’s, but stopped production in the early ‘80’s. Bought over in the early 1990’s, it is again in full production.

Edradour Distillery

Edradour is the smallest distillery in Scotland, using the smallest stills allowed by the Customs & Excise regulations. It sits on the hill to the east of Pitlochry in the hamlet of Balnauld. Reported to date from 1825, it first appears on records in 1837, and is the last example of the traditional farm distilleries. It is a working distillery with a staff of three, taking a year to produce the quantity of whisky that a Speyside unit would produce in a week. They produce about 12 casks of spirit at 70% each week. Each member of staff must be able to turn his hand to any distillery task.
Production methods are largely unchanged since 1825, with as much of the old-fashioned equipment as possible still in use.
It is reported to have been a major supplier of alcohol to America during prohibition. 40-gallon loads of whisky were fired onto Long Island beaches at night from ex-Navy torpedo boats. This required the development of specially designed bottles to withstand the shock. There are also unsubstantiated claims that there have been Mafia connections in the past.
The main loss from the ‘complete’ farm distillery is that they no longer produce their own malt. The malt house has been converted into a visitor centre.

Glengoyne Distillery

The distillery is located at Dumgoyne on the A81 about 15 miles north of Glasgow. It sits in an idyllic setting at the foot of the mare’s-tail burn ‘ giving visitors a pleasant vista as they sip their dram at the end of their tour.
The distillery was established on the site of an earlier ‘small still’ in 1833. An earlier name for the site was ‘Glen Guin’ or ‘Burn Foot’.
The restricted site meant that malt had to be bought in as early as 1910, and the filling store is on the opposite side of the main road from the distillery. For safety reasons the spirit is pumped from the distillery to the filling store through a copper pipe under the road.
Glengoyne is one of the smaller distilleries, but well worth a visit.

Glenturret Distillery

A claimant for the title of oldest distillery, Glenturret is located just to the west of Crieff on the A85. Whisky distillation took place on the site as early as 1717, with the distillery dating from 1775. The original name for this site is The Hosh, which is still in use locally. There was another, older distillery nearby that adopted the Glenturret name in 1826. It disappeared, and the Hosh became known as Glenturret..
Distilling stopped in 1921, and the distillery used for warehousing. The distillery was dismantled in 1929 and the buildings used by the adjacent farm. The distillery was re-established in the early sixties and is again one of the established malts of Scotland. It is a small scale operation with most activities being carried out manually, reminiscent of methods used 100 years ago..
There are extensive visitor facilities, and has become a major tourist attraction.

Loch Lomond Distillery

Loch Lomond distillery is located at Alexandria, just south of Loch Lomond..
The design of the stills allows the distillery to produce a number of malts with different characteristics..
Single malts produced are Inchmurrin, named after an island in the Loch, Loch Lomond and Old Rhosdhu.

Tullibardine Distillery

In Blackford, in Perthshire, the distillery was built within a brewery that dated back as far as 1488 when a special brew was produced for the coronation of James IV at Scone.
The present distillery was rebuilt in 1974, but is currently silent.

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