The Longmorn Distillery was founded in 1895. At the very end of the 19th century Scotland experienced a huge whisky boom. The founder of Longmorn Distillery, John Duff also owned Glenlossie distillery. He wanted to respond to the raising demand for whisky, so he partnered up with George Thomson and Charles Shirres to create the Longmorn Distillery Company in 1893. Read more...
Address: Bowling Bowling North Lanarkshire G60 5BG Scotland
Littlemill is normally classified as a Lowland distillery due to the use (until 1930s) of triple distillation that’s traditionally used in the Lowlands – as opposed to the double distillation that is customary in the rest of Scotland. Littlemill was closed in 1984, but the distillery was re-opened again in 1989 by new owners Gibson International. Closed again in 1994, Read more...
Address: Grangestone Girvan South Ayrshire KA26 9PT Scotland
The Ladyburn distillery was a producer of single malt Scotch whisky that operated between 1966 and 1975. Ladyburn is among the rarest Scotch malt whiskies -due to bottling for only about 10 years. Even harder to find are whiskys from its sister distillery Kininvie. Interestingly both distilleries were founded by WM Grant & Sons and were not traditional malt whisky Read more...
The old distillery (Linkwood A) was closed in 1985, it reopened in 1990 with a limited production. The old distillery makes whisky for just a few months per year. Today Linkwood B Linkwood has built a strong reputation with blenders over the years and was used in blends; notably Johnnie Walker and White Horse. Read more...
Knockando Distillery is distilling a single malt Scotch whisky. Although distillation continues throughout the year, each year of production is still referred to as a Season at Knockando distillery. In each bottle you will only ever find the produce of one single Season – a practice which continues to distinguish Knockando from almost all other single malts. Read more...
Address: 40 Moffat Street Glasgow Glasgow City G5 0QB Scotland
Kinclaith distillery was the last malt whisky distillery to be constructed in the Glasgow area. Kinclaith was dismantled in 1977, less than twenty years after starting production. It is therefore one of the scarcest malts around, with only a few independent bottlings available, all at prices that reflect its rarity. The brand Long John is used for both blended whiskies Read more...
The Kininvie Distillery, one of the youngest distilleries in Scotland, began production on 4 July 1990. William Grant & Sons, in 2005, introduced a premium blended malt whisky called Monkey Shoulder, which is created from a mixture of single malt from Kininvie, together with single malts from the Balvenie and Glenfiddich distilleries, both of which are owned by William Grant Read more...
Address: Dumbarton Dumbarton West Dunbartonshire G82 1RB Scotland
Inverleven Distillery is a huge distillery complex in Dumbarton is licensed to George Ballantine & Son Ltd. and still produces whisky for the Ballantines blend to this day. Both malt distilleries on the site were closed and mothballed in 1991/1992. Since then Inverleven Distillery is back to grain whisky distillation. Read more...