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 [...]

Edradour Distillery Visit December 2008
After an evening of fun and frolics at Pitlochry’s Atholl Palace Hotel and a hearty Highland breakfast, we guys Dougie Bell Alan Blackhall and I (Dougie the Whisky Boy) set off to walk to the smallest distillery in Scotland, namely The Edradour, situated about one mile away on the other side [...]

Glengoyne Distillery,
Dumgoyne,
near Killearn,
Glasgow,
G63 9LB
+44 (0) 1360 550 254
E-mail reception@glengoyne.com
It was bitterly cold on the morning of Saturday 6th of December 2008 when the Whisky Boys (on this occasion only Jim and Nicola) set off to the Glengoyne Distillery - Christmas Food Festival 2008.
But we Whisky Boys knew that if this was held in a distillery [...]