This eveining, I am presenting some images taken during a recent tour of Auchentoshan Distillery.



The manaufacture of whiskey entails a convoluted process of Malting, Crushing,Fermenting, Distilling and Maturation.



Here is the final product, maturing on oak casks.





Copper stills. These are really giant kettles in which the wash is heated to the point where the alcohol is driven off and then condensed into liquid spirit.






This is where fermentation occurs, where the enzymes in the malt convert the starch into sugar. The resultant liquid is known as wort which is cooled and pumped into washbacks where yeast is added.

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posted by Catswhiskers @ 12:33 PM  0 comments

This evening I am posting some images of a recent Scotland tour which entailed a visit to Edradour which is a classic farm distillery and the smallest legal distillery in Scotland.

Edradour was founded in 1825 and currently produces 90,000 litres p.a.

The management of Edradour provide an excellent free tour taking visitors through the whole process of malting,mashing,fermentation, distillation and maturation.

There is an excellent whiskey shop at the Distillery which sells a wide range of specialist whiskeys.


Here is an aspect of the Distillery buildings.

Here is a copper still
Here is the glass-fronted spirit safe where the expert separates the middle cut containing the best quality alcohol from the feints or lower grade alcohol.

Malt mill
Tour group inspecting colling system which is used to cool the hot, alcoholic vapours rising up the neck of the still and condense them back into a liquid.


Edradour is located close to Pitlochry in Perthshire and is well worth a visit.

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posted by Catswhiskers @ 3:26 PM  0 comments

This afternoon I have collected some images from a 2007 Whisky Tour centred on the Famous Grouse Distillery near Crieff in Perthshire.

Here is the group having some fun taking pics by a loch.


Here is a representation of the Famous Grouse

Here is the distillery. Shop, restaurant and a number of tours to choose from.


Here is the group enjoying some springtime sunshine

Colourful image of the burn running close to the Distillery. Lost of water is essential for the distilling process.

Overall, a good tour which took in lots of spectacular scenery in the Trossachs

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posted by Catswhiskers @ 9:39 AM  0 comments

A Scottish based buyer has paid GBP14,850.00 ($29,000) for a bottle of Glenavon 'Special Liqueur Whisky' which is believed to have been bottled by a long defunct Speyside Distillery between 1851 and 1858. The vendor was a woman from Northern Ireland. However, an expert has raised a question over the bottle's provenance due to the machine made bottle and elaborate label printing which suggest a bottling date of late 19th. century.

The record for a single bottle of Scotch remains at GBP26,000 ($50,100) which was paid in 2002 for a bottle of Dalmore, which had been matured for 62 years prior to bottling.

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posted by Catswhiskers @ 7:11 AM  0 comments