Unique Distillery Firsts And Exceptions Flashcards
For how long is Longrow made each year?
Only two weeks per year.
Triple Distillation
Auchentoschan (lowlands)
Hazleburn (Campbeltown)
Benrinnes (Speyside) (partial Triple distillation)
Ben Riach (speyside) (once a year)
First distillery to receive the Royal Warrant?
Royal Brackla in 1838
Name Scotch Distilleries that Masataka Taketsuru worked
Hazelburn
Longmorn (stills became model for Yoshi distillery)
Bo’ness (Coffee stills)
Distilleries where spirits stills are larger than wash stills
Lagavulin
Linkwood
Distilleries with Lomond stills
Scapa
Bruichladdich (installed in 2010 from Inverleven) - called “Ugly Betty”
InchDairnie (installed a Lomond Hill still in 2025, similar but has 6 bubble cap plates that are fixed and not moveable like a true Lomond)
(Loch Lomond stills are pot stills with rectifying columns in their necks, not lomond stills)
Two distilleries with horizontal shell & tube condensers.
Dalmore & Macduff
Most famous distillery cat in history?
Glenturret’s “Towser”
Lived 24 years (1963-1987)
Caught 28,899 mice
+innumerable rabbits, rats and pheasants.
Guinness Book of World Records - remains unbroken.
Name 3 large cooperages in Scotland
Camlachie Cooperage- Glasgow
Oakwood Cooperage - Speyside
Speyside Cooperage - Speyside
Which 4 distilleries have their own cooperages on site?
Loch Lomond
Balvenie
Glenfiddich
Girvan
Which two scotch distilleries use mash filter rather than mash tun?
Teaninich and Inchdernie also used at Midleton in Ireland
Single Malt distilleries in Scotland that use HARD water (most distilleries use soft water)
Highland Park & Scapa
Glenmorangie
Glenkinchie
Loch Lomand
Grain distilleries in Scotland
Cameronbridge (Lowlands - Diageo)
Girvan
(Lowlands - William
Grant)
North British
(Lowlands - Lothian Distillers)
Invergordon
(Highlands - Whyte & MacKay)
Strathclyde
(Lowlands - Chivas Brothers)
Starlaw
(Lowlands - La Martiniquaise)
Loch Lomand
(HIghlands - Loch Lomand Group)
Reivers
(Lowlands - Mossburn Distillery Co.)
What is Diageo’s smallest distillery in Scotland?
Leven is a distillery near Cameronbridge where they do their distillation trials.
What distilleries combined in 1877 to form Distillers Company Limited?
DCL (which would ultimately become Diageo) was created when the grain producers who owned Cambus, Carsebridge, Cameronbridge, Glenochil, Kirlston and Port Dundas joined forces in Edinburgh.
What consortium of blenders created North British Distillery in 1887?
Andrew Usher
William Sanderson
John Crabbie
and James Watson
created Northbridge to have an alternative to DCL monopoly.
How did Northbridge end up in the hands of the people who would create Diageo?
1887 - Northbridge created as an alternative to DCL
-Cooperative ran until early 1990’s when Edrington and IDV took control.
-When IDV was bought by United Distillers (which in turn became Diageo) Northbridge fell into the hands of the company it was created to escape from.
Which distillery in Speyside has a flat top still?
Cragganmore
Cardhu Pure Malt Contreversy
-The term “pure malt” had no legal definition (like Small Batch in US)
-The term denoted quality and provenance & not necessarily origin
-term was used then the way “blended malt” or “vatted malt” is used today
-Cardhu Single Malt was pulled because they needed juice for Spain and JW blends
-Replaced it with Cardhu Pure Malt - competitors complained that this was an attempt to mis-lead consumers
-Cardhu Pure Malt was pulled from market
Where did Charles Doig install the first pagoda roof?
Dailuaine in 1889
What is the oldest distillery in Speyside?
Strathisla (1786) originally known as Milltown distillery
What are the two distilleries in Scotland that have hammer mills?
Teaninich
Inchdernie
What are the two distilleries in Scotland that make grain whisky and malt whisky on the same site?
Loch Lomand
Girvin / Alisa Bay
