Loch Ewe thrives on both claims of being the smallest commercial distillery in Scotland and the only one that still lives by the old illicit still tradition. Until a few years ago it was certainly the…

In 1994 independent bottler James McArthur needed a special bottle for the celebration of 500 years of whisky. They found it with an old grain distillery that had been decommissioned ten years before and…

From Gordon&Macphail’s 1995 centennial celebrations comes our first entry for Benrinnes, a vintage release from 1978. Who on the bottling line would have thought it would take another two decades before…

Longmorn, the next victim in the Mortlachification that holds the industry in its grasp. And it needn’t surprise anyone, the spin doctor behind this rebranding is no one less than Georgie Bell, yes…

Wolfburn was the first of a whole new generation Scottish craft distillers to fire up her stills. Thus it is only natural that she arrives first at the debutante ball. After a pricy inaugural release for…

The history of Lochside was short, but by far more eventful than that of many others. Not only did they produce both single malt & grain, but also made a blend of them. Something known as a ‘single…

A tribute to Littlemill’s innovative nature, in the 60’s the distillery owner experimented with lomond stills, water-jacket coolers and… peated expressions. Yes Littlemill did peat before it was cool!…

With Lagavulin’s 200th birthday drawing near and with many of the fans concerns were growing: would Diageo would make us pay dearly for the jubilee edition, are they cocky enough to force a NAS down our…

In Peterhead once stood a small distillery providing a unique floral malt for the blend industry. No official bottles made it to market and only a handful of independent bottlers (mostly the usual sus…

In the last few months Scapa finally emerged from the shadows as a single malt distillery: new bottlings (even a peated !?! release), a visitors centre and unfortunately they too are ditching that ‘cu…