Brora 14th Release 35 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky

About Brora

Built in 1819 for just £750 by the Marquess of Stafford (who eventually became the Duke of Sutherland), Brora Distillery was originally known as “Clynelish” and was one of Scotland’s earliest purpose-built malt distilleries. The stills at this early Clynelish were coal-fired, and once electricity came to the forefront of whisky production in the mid-20th century, a new Clynelish Distillery — complete with electric-powered stills — was built in 1967, prompting the renaming of the old Clynelish to “Brora Distillery.”

Until 1873, most of the whisky produced at Brora was subsequently supplied to blenders to help address a shortage of Islay whisky at the time. Afterwards, the distillery (which boasted a recently reconstructed mash house) began producing its own whisky in a style somewhere between the lightly peated Highlands and more heavily peated Islay — ultimately, however, Brora couldn’t keep up with the more modern productions methods used at the adjacent Clynelish Distillery, and in 1983 Brora Distillery was mothballed forever.