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BADACHRO
Badachro Distillery is near Badachro Bay and reaching out towards Skye and the Outer Hebrides. Badachro is a family-owned distillerywith family owners Gordon and Vanessa.
Badachro Distillery offers small-batch, artisan whisky, gin and vodka from the Scottish Highlands.
BALBLAIR
Balblair distillery is a Scotch whisky distillery located in Edderton, Ross-shire, Scotland. Originally founded in 1790, the distillery was rebuilt in 1895. In 1996 Balblair distillery was purchased by Inver House Distillers Limited.
However, so good was the original water source that the rebuilt distillery chose to ignore a nearby burn in favour of the original Ault Dearg burn. To this day, the Balblair Distillery continues to use this original water source.
BALMENACH
Balmenach distillery was established in 1824 by James MacGregor, from a family of farmers and illicit distillers who resided in Tomintoul. The Distillery Balmenach whisky miniature collection is owned by Inver House Distillers Limited.
Situated in the district of Cromdale on the banks of the River Spey the distillery stands in beneath the nearby hill of Tom Lethendry where the Jacobites were defeated in the Battle of Cromdale in 1690. The distillery closed in 1941 and re-opened in 1947, following expansion of its facilities.
BALVENIE
In early 1892 work began to convert an 18th century mansion (Balvenie New House) into a distillery. The Balvenie distillery is a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky distillery in Dufftown, Scotland owned by William Grant & Sons.
Balvenie produces whisky in a traditional style. The use of locally grown barley is preferred, and is floor malted. Balvenie's offerings have generally performed very well at spirits ratings competitions.
BANFF
The Banff distillery was a producer of single malt Scotch whisky that operated between 1863 and 1983. Banff used a triple-distillation process until 1924.
- demolished
The distillery continued to produce whisky until it was finally mothballed in 1983. By the late 1980s, most of the distillery's buildings had been dismantled or demolished. The last warehouse was destroyed in a fire on April 11, 1991.
BEN NEVIS
Ben Nevis is located at Lochy Bridge in Fort William and sits just at the base of Ben Nevis, Scotland's highest mountain, which rises to 1344m above sea level. The distillery was founded in 1825 by 'Long John' McDonald. The Japanese company Nikka (Japan) acquired the distillery in 1989.
The heart of the range has been for some time the 10 years old. There have also been a few cask-finishes, limited editions and independent bottlings.
BENRIACH
The BenRiach distillery is a single malt Scotch whisky distillery in the Speyside area of Scotland. In 2004 the distillery was acquired by an independent consortiumby the BenRiach distillery Company Limited. In 2008, the company expanded their portfolio with the acquisition of the Glendronach distillery.
The BenRiach Distillery was established by the John Duff in 1898 close to the Longmorn Distillery which was also owned by Duff.
BENRINNES
Benrinnes is a malt whisky distillery in Aberlour producing an eponymous whisky. It was founded in 1826. Was founded by Peter McKenzie. The distillery is still active. The distillery employed a unique partial triple distillation process until 2007. The triple distillation process was abandoned in 2007, when it switched to a more common configuration of two wash stills and four spirit stills.
- no site available
Benrinnes produces one fifteen-year-old semi-official botteling in the Flora and Fauna range since 1991.
BENROMACH
Benromach is a Speyside distillery founded by Duncan McCallum and F.W. Brickman in 1898 and currently owned and run by Gordon and Macphail of Elgin. In 1998 the distillery was officially reopened by Charles, Prince of Wales and bottling of the new malt started in 2004.
In 1993 Gordon and MacPhail took over the site and in 1997 they started to restore the distillery to a working order. The design of the distillery was changed slightly to allow it to be operated by one man.
BEN WYVIS
The first distillery to use the name "Ben Wyvis" operated between 1879 and 1926. As of 2010, no whisky from this distillery is known to exist. The Ben Wyvis distillery began operation in 1965 was started by the Invergordon distillery, and was built on the Invergordon grain distillery complex. It was primarily to produce whisky for use in Invergordon blends, but did produce a very small number of single malts.
- dismantled
Ben Wyvis was dismantled in 1977, the stills were saved and eventually used by the Glengyle distillery.
BLADNOCH
Bladnoch distillery is the most southerly whisky distillery in Scotland. It is one of six remaining Lowland distilleries, and is located at Bladnoch. The distillery is situated on the banks of the River Bladnoch. The distillery was founded by John and Thomas McClelland in 1817.
The distillery was bought by Irishmen Raymond and Colin Armstrong in 1995 and reopened for production in late 2000. The first 8-year-old product produced by this new team became available in 2009. Produced monthly miniatures.
BLAIR ATHOL
Blair Athol distillery is located near Pitlochry in Perthshire. The distillery was founded in 1798 by John Steward and Robert Robertson. Blair Athol single malt whisky is used in Bell's whisky, and is also normally available in a 12 year old bottling.
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The distillery closed down in 1932. The mothballed distillery was bought by Arthur Bell and Sons, but didn't open again until it was rebuilt in 1949.
BOWMORE
Bowmore is a distillery that produces scotch whisky on the isle of Islay, an island of the Inner Hebrides. The Bowmore Distillery was established in 1779 by a local merchant, John P. Simpson, before passing into the ownership of the Mutter family, a family of German descent.
The distillery is owned by Morrison Bowmore Distillers Ltd, a holding company owned by Japanese drinks company Suntory. Morrison Bowmore also own the Auchentoshan and Glen Garioch distilleries and produce the McClelland's Single Malt range of bottlings.
BRAES OF GLENLIVET / BRAEVAL
The Braeval distillery (formerly known as Braes of Glenlivet) is one of the youngest distilleries in Scotland, built in 1973/'74 by Chivas. It's located in the far south of Speyside, upstream from Tamnavulin and (the) Glenlivet. Braeval distillery resumed production on 11.July.2008.
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When Pernod Ricard bought the distillery in 2001, they wasted no time and promptly mothballed it in 2002, together with Allt A' Bhainne, Benriach, Caperdonich and Glen Keith.
BRORA
The Brora distillery was built in 1819, although it was known as "Clynelish" until the opening of the Clynelish Distillery in 1968, whereupon the name of the original Clynelish was changed to "Brora". Most of the whisky produced as Brora after 1973 is in the lightly peated Highland style.
- mothballed
Brora produced a heavily peated whisky to supply for blending. In early 1983, production at Brora was stopped and the distillery was mothballed.
BRUICHLADDICH / PORT CHARLOTTE
Bruichladdich distillery is a Scotch whisky distillery on the Rhinns of the isle of Islay. She is situated on the Rinns of Islay, the westernmost part of the island. It is one of nine working distilleries on the island. Bruichladdich was built in 1881 by the Harvey brothers.
Bruichladdich also produces 'the most heavily peated Single Malt Whisky in the world'—Octomore (at 80, 130, 141, 152 and 167 ppm). Port Charlotte is sub-brand of the distillery.
BUNNAHABHAIN
The Bunnahabhain distillery was built in 1881 and sits below the northeast tip of the island just north of Port Askaig. It overlooks a narrow belt of water (the Sound of Islay) with a view of the neighbouring island of Jura.
The Bunnahabhain which is one of the milder single malt Islay whiskies available and its taste varies greatly from other spirits to be found on the island of Islay, off the west coast of Scotland.
