A Trip to Aberfeldy

A Trip to Aberfeldy Islay Whisky Academy Kinship Host, Neill Murphy, reflects on a visit to Dewar’s Aberfeldy Distillery in Highland Perthshire. Scotch whisky is at its finest when it reflects something of the place it comes from. The landscape, the climate, the...

Falling in love with an island

Falling in Love with an Island Guest writer and Islay Whisky Academy Kinship Host, Neill Murphy shares his love of Islay – and our whisky, in this evocative article. Something about Islay appealed to me, long before I ever went there. I suppose growing up in the...

#LocalView ~ Bowmore Distillery

Bowmore Distillery 2015 What makes Bowmore Distillery stand out from the crowd..?     1) In 1779 Bowmore became one of the first licensed distilleries. Many other places would also be distilling at this time, and Bowmore was distilling before this ~ but this is the...

Tour Of Buckie Maltings

Tour of Buckie Maltings Boortmalt, Buckiedon’t do tours… but if they did……..Their motto is reminiscent of Henry Ford’s ~ you can have any variety of barley you wish, as long as it’s Concerto…They malt 58,000 tonnes of barley a...

#BSWA ~ Ardnamurchan ( Adelphi)

BSWA - Ardnamurchan Distillery I love Ardnamurchan. Walking up from the pier at Kilchoan a man offered me a lift.A perfect stranger, named John Chapple, took me to the most Western point of mainland Scotland, to see the ‘Egyptian Light’, the Ardnmurchan...

#BSWA ~ Tobermory, Mull

BSWA - Tobermory Distillery The Isle of Mull is large, it could nearly be two or three different islands. From Fionnphort, South West Mull, one makes the short ferry crossing to spiritual Iona.The people are lovely. Alison Brown, Manager of Tobermory Distillery...