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Abhainn Dearg Distillery
Abhainn Dearg Distillery (pronounced “Aveen Jarræk”, Gaelic for “Red River”) is located in Uig on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Founded i...
Aberargie Distillery
Aberargie is a farm-based single malt distillery near Perth in Perthshire, Scotland. Built by the Morrison family on their 300-acre farm at Aberargie, it began production in autumn 2017 as a barley-to...
Few Spirits Distillery
Located in Evanston, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), FEW Spirits is a grain-to-glass whiskey and gin distillery founded in 2011 by Paul Hletko. The name “FEW” has multiple inspirations: on...
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Scottish Whisky Bottler Chapter 7 Liquidates After Sales Collapse
Chapter 7 was once a respected name in the slightly obsessive world of independent whisky bottling — the sort of world where people discuss casks the way poets discuss sunsets, only with more spreadsh...
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U.S. Giant MGP Sales Plummet
MGP is one of the largest whiskey-making facilities in the United States, a place where industrial distillation has reached a scale that could only have been conceived by humans who felt copper, steam...
The First Rye Whisky of Islay
On the far-flung Scottish island of Islay—famous for whisky, rain, sheep, more rain, and whisky made to taste like someone set fire to a bog for tax purposes—there stands a distillery called Bruichlad...
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Spirits of Long Forgotten Stills
Published 29/10/2025
Once alive with the hiss of copper and the scent of malted barley, these distilleries now stand silent — their stills cold, their warehouses empty, or their stones long since torn down. Some survive as homes or museums; others exist only in memory and in the rare bottles they left behind. This Halloween at Whiskipedia, we raise a glass to the ghost distilleries whose presence lingers in every dram they left behind.
Spirits of Long Forgotten Stills
‘Craft’ doesn’t always mean handmade
Published 26/10/2025
The word craft has become one of the most overused in the drinks industry. Whether on bottles of whisky, gin, or beer, it promises individuality, authenticity, and care, an antidote to mass production. Yet in whisky, as in beer, “craft” does not always mean handmade. The term is rarely defined, frequently stretched, and sometimes entirely disconnected from the process it describes. While “craft” implies human skill, independence, and tradition, many producers use it as a marketing tool.
‘Craft’ doesn’t always mean handmade
10 Haunted Whisky Distilleries
Published 24/10/2025
Some whisky distilleries have their spooky ghost stories. Here is a selection, best enjoyed with a dram, of course: Glendronach Distillery Speyside distillery Glendronach imported a large quantity of Spanish Oloroso sherry casks in the 1970s. Apparently, while unloading one of the barrels, a stowaway was sighted escaping from an empty barrel, dressed in scarlet and black and clad in a full mantilla (a veil worn by Spanish women from the Middle Ages, which covered the head and neck).
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The Ardara Distillery
Ardara Single Malt Irish Whiskey — The Ardara Distillery (Donegal, Ireland) Overview Ardara Single Malt Irish Whiskey is the inaugural single malt from The Ardara Distillery: a triple‑distilled, heavi...
Castle & Key
Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. dreamed of building a showcase distillery as a destination for tourists. The Colonel’s once glorious Old Taylor Distillery was founded in 1887 and shuttered in 1972. Since the...
Walsh Whiskey
Royal Oak distillery began its life as Walsh whisky distillery in 2013 with Italian drinks company Illva Saronno making a major investment to help fund the €25 million ($34.1 million USD) construction...