New Distilleries

For the distilleries currently in production, I’m looking forward to getting a taste from the Wolfburn and Daftmill distilleries (Roseisle also, but too proud to admit it).

As for the others, both the Annandale and Ardnamurchan distilleries are amazing project, don't care too much about the others

Fantastic list, thanks!

One more that I could add here is the Glen Turner/Starlaw Grain distillery, Began production in 2011 Designed to produce about 25 000 000 l/year www.colorado-group.com/distillery.php

Excellent list. On a related topic there are three micro-distilleries planned in Northern Ireland. Whether all or any of the three will be up and running any time soon I could not tell you, but hopefully there will be some local competition for Bushmills sooner or later. See links:
irishnews.com/business/… u.tv/News/… belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/…

Distilleries are opening all over Europe For Ireland I've got (since 2005):

Dingle (operational since 2012): www.dingledistillery.ie

Horse Island: liquidirish.com/2012/12/…

Kilbeggan (operational since 2007) www.kilbegganwhiskey.com

Tullamore: irishcentral.com/news/…

Teeling: irishtimes.com/business/sectors/…

Walsh/Carlow: walshwhiskey.com/2013/10/…

West Cork: (operational since 2008) westcorkdistillers.com/home/index.html/…

I'm really quite excited about Kilkerran. It might very well morph into a vintage Brora-esque style of whisky. It's already getting fairly close.

Glen Gyle was not included in this list as it already started its production in 2004, but yes, I haven't tried Glen Scotia yet but thus far no Campbeltown has dissapointed me so far

started a new blog with a list of these distilleries, a bit more visually clarifying this way maltsofpandemonium.blogspot.be

Update on the Isle of Harris distillery, construction has begun whiskycast.com/construction-begins-on-isle-…

Great list. In sweden we have some also.www.swedishwhisky.se/svenska/main.. Box is releasing now in june. And they have really nice newmake and lot of people talks about it.

Did anyone pick up any news on the Annandale distillery? It was supposed to start its production this month. Or news from the Ardnamurchan distillery, they unloaded some casks and had their first load of barley delivered, but no mentions of actual distillation on the site yet.

Nearly all the Australian distilleries are new(ish). :D

It seems my question answered itself. Looks like some delays, new date set for this summer. bbc.com/news/…

I'll be spending a week or two in York in July, maybe I'll take a peek over the border

@Pandemonium Great topic. There do seem to be loads on new distilleries popping up all over the place. In England there are a few more planned that I know of. The closest to me are Dartmoor Distillery and Cotswolds Distillery. I am the most excited about the one in the Cotswolds as it is closer. I had a chat with the owner and did a quick post on it here bit.ly/1irBvkQ I've been invited up to have a look around once they go into production this Autumn.

The Darmoor Distillery are planning on doing a Whisky Academy where you stay on site and work there on different aspects of the production process. It sounds like fun.

With prices soaring I can see more and more being announced over the next few years.

Just a bit northwest of Scotland: Eimverk Distillery. In Iceland. I had the privilege to tour their operation in April 2014. Should be a piece about it on the Whisky Advocate website soon.

www.flokiwhisky.is

update on the Longship distillery, they are looking for investors for their new distillery on Orkney. The odd thing is that they are indeed planning to ship the equipment from their Swedish Gryhyttan distillery to Orkney, but they don't mention anything about the future of their Swedish distillery, only that their stoch their will remain in Sweden to mature. All the info on the new distillery is in here. longship.se/wp-content/uploads/…

PS: this not an attempt to get people to invest in this distillery, I myself will not. This post is purely informative and not an advertisement.

@Uisgebetha

I know that Echlinville Distillery in Northern Ireland has started producing they have a fb page, unsure about the other two though

Now the Box pioneer has ben released. 5000 bottles sold ot in on hour. they will release the second Bottling in november december it was given 80 by some well know whiskyconniserurs in sweden@softailman

Ardnamurchan distillery has started it's mashing process, exciting times. You can follow them here on FB: facebook.com/pages/Adelphi-Distillery-Ltd/… Really looking forward to this one, the people from Aldelphi finally behind the control panel of their own distillery.

scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/… River Clyde distillery by AD Rattray has got its funding and approval now. Though I don't like the fact that their main goal seems to become a tourist attraction. They appeal to the tourists in Glasgow, not so much to the whisky crowd out there. It would be interesting to know what style of whisky that they will be making. What really interests me is if they will be making a traditional lowland style malt, triple distillation, ... They are well known and respected independent bottlers right now, so I don't doubt that they will make a good whisky, but I don't like the overly-commercial spin to it. They could have used that money to buy the olde Rosebank distilery that is currently for sale and in desperate need of restoration.

thespiritsbusiness.com/2014/08/… new distillery grain distillery maybe?

The Annandale distillery will be inaugurated next month: picture album: facebook.com/media/set/…

Dalmunach (former Imperial distillery) will start its production this very month: chivasbrothers.com/newsroom/news-area/…

Ballindalloch started its production back in September: www.facebook.com/BallindallochDistillery And Annandale will fill its first cask later this week: www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/…

This year five new distilleries will have opened their doors: Ardnamurchan, Ballindalloch, Kingsbarns, Dalmunach and Annandale. The Falkirk and Harris distilleries are in progress of being build

I think it will be interesting to see if Annandale do a spin on the Bruce legacy. Robert Bruce was the Lord of Annandale, after all.

New distillery announced in Edinburgh (North Queensferry), although it seems they can't decide on what exactly will be their main activity and I don't think that secret method to make the whisky mature faster will float well with SWA.

thespiritsbusiness.com/2014/11/…

I know this is an older discussion, but Ailsa Bay has released a single malt. Apparently it's gotten decent reviews. People compare it to Kilchoman's earthy peaty character.

My distant cousin David Kennedy is the Marquess of Ailsa so I'd like to try this one at least for that reason.

@casualtorture Those old discussion are kept to be reactivated. It is the first time I am hearing of Ailsa. I went on there site and that got me curious. Thank you to bring this new comer to our attention. Of course being owned by Grant's doesn't make it at exotic as an independent, but learning that they will try to have a style similar to Balvenie has certainly raised my attention.

Last year's Malt Whisky Yearbook listed a ton of in development and new distilleries.
I'm interested in Ballindalloch and Dalmunach amongst the newbies.

Ailsa Bay? So nobody has given any feedback yet on Ailsa Bay, despite the fact that it is HUGE in capacity and operating since 2007. Whisky Advocate in the Winter 2017 edition outlines the current eleven Scottish Lowlands Malt distilleries, and notes the production capacity of each one. According to the magazine's numbers Ailsa Bay has more capacity than the other ten lowland distilleries put together. This stuff will likely soon be ubiquitous like Glenmorangie Original. Of course I assume that William Grant will use much of its capacity for making blends, too.

@markjedi1, would you please give us some reviews of the products from this Lowland distillery, Ailsa Bay?

@Victor At this point, they only have one (!) release as far as I am aware - and it's not terribly good. It is also part of the Collectivum XXVIII blend that was put out by Diageo in last year's Special Release. Other than that, all is destined for blending purposes. I'll see what I can find.

@markjedi1, thank you!