Scotch Whisky Distilleries
Below is a list of all the active single malt whisky distilleries in Scotland, 124 of them, listed alphabetically. If a distillery is a working distillery and making whisky, then I have listed them here. I have not included any distilleries in the planning or construction phases. I will add them once they are open, and have made their first spirit. I have created links to their official websites when they have them. I have also added links to videos if they have one posted on Youtube that either shows you the distillery or is a sort of educational video about the distillery.
Many of the big distilleries have a large presence on Youtube, but I may not include any of their videos here if it isn’t a chance just to meet the distillery through the video. I have done my best to give you the correct pronunciation of each distillery. It is hard to get all the nuances of a Scottish accent into a description, but I tried. I have chosen to give you a pronunciation guide even if it is a regular English word for consistency, and also to help non-English speakers. \
The year founded is often different in different places and sometimes there is a founding date and a reopening date because it was closed, so that is why you see more than one year for some distilleries. Sometimes the two dates mean something different. Current Owners can be complicated, sometimes, if there are parent companies and big drink groups. I chose to use the Current Owners as listed on scotchwhisky.com and not list the parent company. You can check out that website if you want that information. If a distillery changes ownership, I try to update that as quickly as possible. If it has been more than a month since the change happened and I have not updated it, feel free to let me know.
There are many exceptional places on the web to find out all kinds of things about Scotch. I don’t want to re-invent the wheel here, nor do I wish to take credit for work I did not do. I am going to use the resources that are there to build this page and give credit to the wonderful webpage builders that came before me, whose work helped me create this page. Sometimes the information is hard to verify and can be conflicting between the different sites. If you see something that is wrong, please drop me a note through the contact form and I will fix it. Please give me as much info as possible.
To get an alphabetical list of distilleries, I used the lists from http://www.maltmadness.com/whisky/ and http://danishwhiskyblog.blogspot.dk. The Malt Madness site is chock full of information about Scotch and other whisky and I encourage you to visit them as they have a tremendous amount of fun and interesting facts about Scotch. They have a really, really nice interactive map of Scotland with all the distilleries shown. http://www.maltmadness.com/whisky/map/Scotland/ When you hover over a distillery it gives you a little snippet of information about it. When you click on it it brings up the distillery page that Malt Madness created. It is really terrific and again, I encourage you to visit them. I also used the pdf map found at the Scotch Whisky Association website. Malt Madness is now updating their site thanks to a boon given to them by Serge Valentin. Here is another cool resource, a periodic table of Scotch distilleries created by Oliver Klimek from dramming.com. And while there, you can check out Oliver’s timeline of all Scottish Distilleries! I used wikipedia.org and scotchwhisky.com as well. I used various sources to help with pronunciation, but liked two youtube videos from aqvavitae. I linked the first one and the second one will be there for you on youtube. Robin Laing writes about whisky in his songs and I learned to pronounce many distilleries from listening to his music. I used all of these resources in some way to help me create this list.