Arran scenery When all excitement on Islay and Arran still on our minds, before we knew it we were home again. One thing was sure though – we would keep doing this and even expand our madness. The year already had been good, (it is only June 2013 in this timeline) but coming back from…
Category: Distillery in depth
.4 – Milling – 2013
Arran scenery A week of driving around on Islay was good. Sadly, we missed Ardbeg day because of our boat left before the distillery could legally open their doors, but we managed to get one of the collectible Ardbog festival bottlings, that we opened once we arrived at the self catering house on the Isle of…
.3 – Malting – 2013
Bruichladdich sunshine A smooth boat ride to Islay on the first true morning of our vacation brought us to the magical island. We landed on Lagavulin day, but missed most of that because we needed to check in to the bothy first. Our real start would be the Sunday: Bruichladdich day. We could not have…
.2 – Growing (pains) – 2012 / 2013
As can be seen in the first part, we had developed a serious taste for everything whisky: Distilleries (breweries too), festivals, nosings & tastings, whisky specialist shops and not in the least of all, Scotland. Although we were well aware that besides Scotland there are many more whisky producing countries, Scotland stole our hearts. Among…
.1 – Planting the barley – 2012 and before
It has never been much of a secret that Thomas liked a sip whisky every now and then. He has been drinking the stuff regularly and visited a festival every once in a while, and at the point where he was in between jobs he decided to investigate whisky on a deeper level. Keeping responsibility…
Discovering the Swedish spirits from the Mackmyra Distillery
On the journey of Whisky Speller in discovering the wonderful world of whisky we encountered some lovely bottlings of Mackmyra, the first Swedish whisky distillery. We got curious about these bottlings and wanted to learn more about the distillery and the people behind it so we contacted Angela D’Orazio, the Master Blender of Mackmyra. She…
Graanbranderij De IJsvogel
In Arcen is the distillery De Ijsvogel situated. This is a working watermill and distillery. Lovely place and people. Please have a look at their website. Below some photo’s of our visit there.
Hertog Jan Beer Brewery
Visited the Hertog Jan Brewery in Arcen. A nice location to visit when in the neighbourhood. Please visit their website for more information, or have a look below for some pictures we took during our tour around the facility
Bladnoch Distillery – ‘Spirit of the Lowlands’
The most southern Scottish distillery is located in Bladnoch. The Bladnoch distillery lies directly next to the river baring the same name. It was established in 1817 by the brothers Thomas and John McClelland. They exchange hands a couple of times, and stopped production at one time also. Then in 1993 the owners United Distillers…
Isle of Arran Distillery – ‘the true spirit of nature’
Arran is also known as “Scotland in Miniature”. And that it is for sure! The Lowlands in the south of the island and in the north the Highlands. Stunning island with its high peaks, lochs, castles, green fields, beautiful coastline, fresh air, beaches and more… Beautiful! Perfect location for a distillery, and we are a…
Port Ellen Maltings
The Port Ellen Maltings was a thing on our wish list for the Feis Ile week. This is only opened in this week for tours, and very nice to see what the process is on this side, and get more information on it. Port Ellen Maltings is situated in Port Ellen, next to the Port…
Bowmore Distillery – Feis Ile 2013
Last year we went to Islay for a couple of days and visited the visitor centre at the Bowmore Distillery. No time sadly at that point or a tour or anything, and we promised to make up for that. So we did… Feis Ile 2013, we are back, and booked a tour in advance just to be…
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