Brora distillery

Brora was a distillery in Brora, Highland, Scotland. The distillery buildings are sorted in the Scottish lists of monuments in the B category.

The distillery was built in 1819 as the Clynelish distillery for political reasons by George Granville Levison - Gower, the second Marquis of Stafford and later Duke of Sutherland. The aim was to moonshiners in the course of the Highland Clearances to withdraw the basis of their business, to move them to resettle. In the first decades of existence, the history of the distillery by numerous tenants change is marked. Only George Lawson led the distillery from 1846 across a longer period. In 1896, the distillery was in equal parts to the Blender James Ainslie & Co of Glasgow and John Risk, who also operated the banker distillery in Banknock sold. In 1925, the operation became the property of the Distillers Company Ltd.. (DCL ) above and belonged to Scottish Malt Distillers from 1930 ( SMD). Between 1931 and 1939 the distillery was closed.

In 1967 the distillery was to be replaced by the newly built Clynelish distillery. Since the production of the required for blending highly peated whiskey on Islay faltered due to weather conditions at that time, now known as Clynelish denoted A distillery and the Clynelish B were operated initially called new operation in parallel, was being carried out the production heavily peated whiskeys in Clynelish A. Later Clynelish A was renamed Brora and Clynelish B in Clynelish. The Brora distillery was still in operation until 1983, a year in which to Banff, Dallas Dhu, Glen Mhor, Glenlochy, Glenugie, North Port and St. Magdalene seven other distilleries were still closed.

When Alfred Barnard in the context of his major whiskey trip visited the distillery in 1886, it had an annual production capacity of more than 20,000 gallons. There were two stills are available, a rough blister ( wash still ) and a fine blister (Spirit Still ).