Kilbeggan Distillery - A visit to the Oldest Distillery in the World.
It is Wednesday the 30th of June 2010 and Jim and his wife, Jacqueline together with Philip Giles (a past guest taster) and his wife Lorraine left their hotel just outside Dublin for the hour or so journey to the Kilbeggan Distillery.
Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey [...]

Tullibardine Whisky - Distillery Visit

The home of this Distillery is on the southern edge of the town of Blackford on the A9 which is the main road north from Glasgow.

Glenkinchie Whisky Distillery
Pencaitland
Tranent
East Lothian
EH34 5ET
telephone 01875 342004
website www.malts.com
Owner, Diageo
The home of this Distillery in the village of Pencaitland which is only about 14/15 miles outside Edinburgh. Being so close to Scotland’s capital all the labels proudly state “The Edinburgh Malt”. Glenkinchie is one of only 2/3 remaining lowland distilleries and sits among barley fields.
The Lammermuir [...]

Deanston Distillery
Deanston,
Near Doune,
Perthshire
FK16 6AG
Telephone 01786 841422
Fax: 01786 841439
Owners,
Burn Stewart Distillers
Head Office
8 Milton Road
College Milton North
East Kilbride G74 5BU,
Scotland.
Telephone 01355 260 999
Fax 01355 264 355
Website www.burnstewartdistillers.com
Jim and Nicola left Longcroft at 10:15 am on Friday 12th of February 2010 to take the short journey to the Highland Distillery of Deanston ( approx 35 mins ).
We had [...]

Glenfarclas Distillery
Speyside
Banffshire
www.glenfarclas.co.uk
The Spirit of Independence
Glefarclas meaning – The Valley of the Green Grass. After tasting this fine dram in the Mash Tun public house in Aberlour, Catherine and I decided that this was a visit that had to be made while on this trip. So we went, up the long straight avenue towards the visitors [...]

Glenfiddich Distillery
Dufftown
Banfshire
www.glenfiddich.com
Thursday, May 7th, on our way back to our humble caravan we spotted the sign for Glenfiddoch Distillery (part of the William Grant Group). As I recall, Glenfiddich was the second single malt I ever tasted and it has had a calling for me ever since, so, in we go for a [...]

Dougie, Jim, Nicola ( the three Whisky Boys out on their first distillery tour together)

Left Longcroft (home of two of the Whisky Boys) travelling north to the Perthshire town of Aberfeldy, travelling through Crieff and the Sma Glen. In a twisty highland road on a beautiful sunny Spring day.

The date was 20th of March when the Whisky Boys and their lovely wife’s set of to Stranraer for the ferry to Belfast for a 6793visit that was to engulf many things , the main one being saying farewell to Jacqueline’s Mum who we were returning to Rathmullen, by scattering her ashes on that beautiful sandy beach. But there were other trips etc we were going to schedule in whilst in Ireland, these being:-

Friday 17th April 2009, heading north from Falkirk, passing Stirling and Dunblane en route to Creiff via Braco and Muthill. Jim and Nicola made their way to Glenturret Whisky Distillery, home of The Famous Grouse Experience.
Glenturret Distillery being the oldest in Scotland.
Glenturret Distillery  (also The Famous Grouse Experience)
The Hosh,
Creiff,
Perthshire PH7 4HA
telephone 01764 656565
website www.thefamousgrouse.com
It was [...]

Distillery visit Auchentoshan
On Thursday 9th April I phoned Nicola about midday and asked her is she was free and we could journey down the Clyde and visit Auchentoshan Distillery, without hesitation Nicola had her Whisky Boy’s polo shirt on and awaited transport.
Auchentoshan Distillery
Dalmuir
Clydebank
Glasgow
G81 4SJ
telephone: 01389 878561
website: www.auchentoshan.com
Owned by Morrison Bowmore (Suntory)
Classed as a Lowland Malt [...]