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CLYNELISH

14 years old

43 %         

FLORA & FAUNA
Distilled 1980
Bottled 1992
Clynelish Distillery, Brora, Sutherland

One of the most northerly in Scotland, Clynelish distillery was established in Brora by the Marquess of Stafford in 1819. Its building signalled the end of illicit distilling in the area and provided a ready market for locally grown barley. Water is piped from the Clynemilton Burn to produce this fruity slightly smoky single Malt Scotch Whisky much appreciated by connoisseurs.

CLYNELISH
11 years old
66,3 %                   
CADENHEAD'S
AUTHENTIC COLLECTION
LAST  BOTTLE  AND  EMPTY
Cask Strenght
Distilled March 1982
Bottled February 1994
No additives
No colouring
Not chill filtered
Wm. Cadenhead,
32 Unionstreet, Campbeltown

CLYNELISH
12 years old
57 %                 
Proprietors: Ainslie & Heilbron
(Distillers) Ltd Gordon & Macphail, Elgin
EMPTY

CLYNELISH
29 years old
52,1 %                 
VINTAGE 1965
Distilled 19.2.65
Matured in Sherry Cask
Bottled 6.94
530 bottles
Signatory Vintage
Scotch Whisky Co, Ltd, Edinburgh

CLYNELISH
13 years old
43 %             
Dist. date: 20 January 1982
Bottling date: August 1995
Cask No. 131
156 bottles
Usquebach Society, Holland

Eerste botteling van de Usquebach Society, Holland.

CLYNELISH
15 years old
43 %  
THE ULTIMATE SINGLE MALT
SCOTCH WHISKY SELECTION
Distilled 7.2.80
Bottled 3.95
Cask No. 1270
368 bottles
Van Wees, Amersfoort

CLYNELISH
15 years old
43%            
THE ULTIMATE SINGLE MALT
SCOTCH WHISKY SELECTION
Bottled 10.95
Distilled 29.1.80
Cask No. 764
390 bottles
Van Wees, Amersfoort

CLYNELISH
14 years old
53,8%            
THE ULTIMATE SINGLE MALT
SCOTCH WHISKY SELECTION
Distilled 17.2.83
Bottled 3.7.97
Cask No. 728
Van Wees, Amersfoort

CLYNELISH
23 years old
57.0%                  
RARE MALTS SELECTION
Distilled 1972
Natural Cask Strenght
Limited Edition
Genummerde flessen
Ainslie & Heilbron, Glasgow

Capacity: 1.000.000 litres of Spirit
Spirit Still 14.548 litres
Wash Still: 18.1885 litres
Cooling water: Glen Burn
Process water: nearby spring

CLYNELISH
24 years old
61,3%                 
RARE MALTS SELECTION
Distilled 1972
Bottled September 1997
Natural Cask Strenght
Limited Edition
Genummerde flessen
Ainslie & Heilbron, Glasgow

CLYNELISH
23 years old
59,1 %                 
RARE MALTS SELECTION
Distilled 1974
Bottled May 1998
Natural Cask Strenght
Limited Edition
Genummerde flessen
Ainslie & Heilbron, Glasgow

CLYNELISH
15 years old
57,7%           
FLORA & FAUNA
CaskStrenght 57,7 %
Bottled 1997
Limited Bottling
Genummerde flessen
Clynelish Distillery, Brora, Sutherland

CLYNELISH
over 11 years old
43 %          
THE McGIBBON's PROVENANCE
SUMMER DISTILLATION
Distilled Summer 1989
Bottled Autumn 2000
No Colouring
Not Chill Filtered
Douglas McGibbon & Co, Ltd, Glasgow

CLYNELISH
11 years old
43%            
SIGNATORY VINTAGE
VINTAGE 1989
Distilled 17th May 1989
Bottled 10th January 2001
Matured in a South African Sherry butt
Natural Colour
835 bottles
Signatory Vintage
Scotch Whisky Co, Ltd, Edinburgh

CLYNELISH
9 years old
43 %              
THE ULTIMATE SINGLE MALT
SCOTCH WHISKY SELECTION
Distilled 5/11/92
Bottled 15/8/2002
Cask no. 14779
Genummerde flessen
The Ultimate Whisky Company, N.L

CLYNELISH
9 years old
56,4 %
LAST  BOTTLE  AND  EMPTY
SINGLE CASK
SCOTCH MALT WHISKY
Distilled Jan 90
Bottled May 99
Society Cask No. code 26.12
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society,
The Vaults, Leith, Edinburgh
'Tantalissingly familiar'

A few miles north of Dunrobin Castle, looking over the seemingly endless North Sea is a distillery with a complicated history. This drop of Uisge Beatha was so elusive and mysterious that the panel were snatching for impressions, like feathers in the wind. One said'It's like landing in a foreign city - warm, muggy and exciting - with that strange mix of people smells, exotic food and carbon monoxide'. 'We know exactly what you mean', the rest of us lied. With water, there might have been pepper, mustard, aniseed, wet wood and leather -there might have been sweet notes and sour - butt all we could agree about was that it was very complex and tantatosing familiar. Hard to describe but very enjoyable to drink.

CLYNELISH
9 years old
46%
THE UN-CHILLFILTERED
COLLECTION
HIGHLAND SINGLE MALT
Distilled on: 5 th November 1992
Bottled on: 7 th June 2002
Cask No. 14776
Genummerde flessen
411 Bottles
No Chillfiltration
Signatory Vintage
Scotch Whisky Co, Ltd, Edinburgh

Uitgebracht, samen in Rack met Auchentoshan 9 years old, Mortlach 12 years old, Highland Park 14 years old en Caol Ila 12 years old.

CLYNELISH
14 years old
46 %
COASTAL HIGHLAND
SCOTCH WHISKY
Clynelish Distillery Brora, Sutherland

Resolute integrity, consistent quality and an examplary strenght of character.
The original Distillery was built in 1819 on the remote North East coast by the Future Duke of Sutherland and the wild cat mark originates from The Sutherland Coat of Arms.
The water used is taken from the Clynelish Burn which, about a mile from the Distillery, enters a rocky gorge and tumbling over several falls is caught in a stone cistern and piped to the Distillery.
The unique maritime character of Clynelish owes much to its location and surrounding en¬vironment, but more to the skills of those who make it.
Fruity; slightly smoky; consistent quality; much appreciated by connoisseurs.

CLYNELISH
20 years old
57,2%       
SINGLE CASK
SCOTCH MALT WHISKY
Date Distilled May 83
Date Bottled Nov 03
Society Cask code 26.31
Outturn 258 Bottles
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society,
The Vaults, Leith, Edinburgh
'Madeira cake and Barbour jackets'.

The original distillery at Brora was founded in 1819. In 1967 another distillery (from which this bottling comes) was built next door and given the name of the original, which was con¬fusing.
The make enjoys a high reputation, and this is another good example. The hogshead it has drawn from has coloured the whisky to 18 CT gold.

The first nose is of Madeira cake (in a Tupperware lunchbox, to be precise), and a trace of Caramac; there is no wax or smoke at this stage, but phenols are present in the form of light antiseptic wipes. The flavour is sweet and scented, then dry, even bitter in the finish.
Water brings up the expected wax (Barbour jackets, even waxed Hessian), and also some fruit-lychees and other acidic fruits, with waxy skins.
The flavour is pleasantly fresh, mouth-cooling with an attractive acidity and a medium-lenght,
somewhat bitter finish.

CLYNELISH
14 years old
43 %             
1990
THE ULTIMATE SINGLE MALT
SCOTCH WHISKY SELECTION
Distilled 28/11/90
Bottled 3/3/05
Matured in a Bourbon Barrel
Cask no. 12736
Numbered Bottles
The Ultimate Whisky Company,  N.L.

CLYNELISH
15 years old
46 %             
THE ULTIMATE SINGLE MALT  
SCOTCH WHISKY SELECTION
Single Highland Malt
Distilled  28/11/90
Matured  in a Bourbon barrel
Bottled 01/02/06
Numbered Bottles
Natural Colour
Non Chillfiltered
The Ultimate Whisky Company,   N.L.

CLYNELISH
12  years  old
59,9 %
Distilled 1992
Cask No 15100
Bottled 2005
272 Bottles
Adelphi Distillery Limited
Purveyors of rare malt whiskies
aged in wood and bottled
direct from the cask
Glenborrodale Castle,
Abnamurchan, Argyll

An old favourite (and also of Professor Saintsbury, author of the seminal 'Notes to a Cellar Book' (1926).
Clynelish Distillery is situated on the north-east coast of Scotland, in the village of Brora. Its make is unique, and this is an exellent example.

It is drawn from an American oak refill cask and is midgold in colour. The nose is immediately maritime (iodine and traces od seaweed), with a hint of tea and scented smoke (Lapsang Suchong?) and sweet 'runny honey' or pink marshmallows. Only when you add water does a light waxiness emerge (the keynote for this whisky), rather like waxes paper, thereis an elusive scent that reminded us od drying rooms (complete with soap powder), and a faint whiff of scented smoke. The wax really comes into its own in the teeth-coating mouth-feel; the flavour is lightly sweet, then acidic then gently dry, with fragrant smoke in the finish.

2002 A 14 year old malt is released as a Hidden Malt and replaces the old in the Flora & Fauna series

CLYNELISH
15 years old
46 %                 
THE DISTILLERS EDITION
Coastal Highland Single Malt
Scotch Whisky
DOUBLE MATURED
OLOROSO SECO CASK WOOD
Distilled 1991
Bottled in 2006
Special Release
Limited Edition
Clynelish Distillery,
Brora, Sutherland

CLYNELISH
22 years old
54,4 %
SINGLE CASK
SCOTCH MALT WHISKY
Date Distilled May 1983
Date Bottled Jul 05
Society Cask code 26.43
Outturn 247 Bottles
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society,
The Vaults, Leith, Edinburgh
'Fiery and sweet'

This sample is from the more recent of Brora's two distilleries, though it is not entirely typical of the house style.

Mid gold from a refill hogshead, the neat nose has various dimensions - indeed it seems all over the place. It has butter, sweet oil and slight toffee along with vanilla custard.
In addition there is some salty ham, paper, turps and apple blossom. The taste is big and sweet with molasses, treacle and maple candy. With water the nose changes little and the taste remains very sweet but with enough fire to make it interesting and easy to drink

CLYNELISH
12 years old
46 %
COASTAL  HIGHLAND  
SINGLE  MALT  SCOTCH  WHISKY
BOTTLED  EXCLUSIVELY  FOR  THE
FRIENDS  OF  THE  CLASSIC  MALTS
2 0 0 9
Matured in European Oak Casks
Non  Chill Filtered
Clynelish Distillery, Brora, Sutherland

CLYNELISH
VINTAGE  1 9 9 1
22 years old
46 %                                        
THE  ULTIMATE  SINGLE  MALT
SCOTCH  WHISKY
Distilled: 30/10/91
Matured in a Hogshead
Cask no: 13216
Bottled: 06/11/13
312 Numbered Bottles
Natural Colour
Non Chillfiltered
Selected by The Ultimate Whisky Company. NL

CLYNELISH
Aged 29 years 58 %                                    
SINGLE  MALT  SCOTCH  WHISKY
FROM  A  SINGLE  CASK
Society Single Cask: Code 26.106
Distilled 28th November1984
Cask Type: Refill Butt ex Sherry
Outturn: One of Only 586 Bottles
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society,
The Vaults, Leith, Edinburgh
"Say it with flowers"

Sweet shortbread with vanilla, becoming fruit cake and dried fruits then fresh figs,
meon, grass and rosemary. Waxy and nutty taste, with flower honey. More oily with water,
some creme Anglais and light nuts. A soft texture and a sweet honied taste, becoming slightly bitter.
Complex

CLYNELISH
VINTAGE  2 0 0 8
6 years old
46 %                                   
THE  ULTIMATE  SINGLE  MALT
SCOTCH  WHISKY
Distilled: 01/03/08
Matured in a Bourbon Barrel
Cask No: 800011
Bottled: 17/10/14
275 Numbered Bottles
Natural Colour
Non Chill Filtered
Selected by The Ultimate Whisky Company.NL

GAME  OF  THRONES
 
 
Westeros
 
 
Six Kingdoms                          Mortlach
 
House Targaryen                    Cardhu
 
House Stark                            Dalwhinnie
 
House Lannister                      Lagavulin
 
House Tully                            The Singleton
 
House Tyrell                           Clynelish
 
House Baratheon                     Royal Lochnager
 
House Greyjoy                        Talisker
 
The Night’s Watch                   Oban
 
 
House Tyrell
 
 
House Tyrell of Highgarden rules over the Reach, the lush and fertile region of Westeros
 
whose abiundance feeds the realm.
 
 
The Tyrell golden rose is beautiful but hides razor sharp thorns beneath the surface, They
 
havelived up tot heir house words of Growing Strong, defending their position of power
 
with weapons of sharp words, sharp minds and sharp actions.
 
 
Clynelish
 
 
Like the Reach, Clynelish is positioned among green pastures and rolling hills, with scenic
 
vieuws of the North Sea.
 
 
The fruity, waxy and sea – spicy flavours of this single malt are said to come from the water
 
of Clynemilton burn, which runs over seams of gold in the rock.
 
 
And while this vibrant, golden Scotch is light and floral, like House Tyrell, it’s not to under –
 
estimated with its underlying complex combination of Highland and maritime qualities.
 
 
CLYNELISH
 
CLASSIC  MALTS  SELECTION  tm
 
Single Malt Scotch Whisky
 
CLYNELISH  DISTILLERY  est 1819
 
RESERVE
 
A Single Malt Scotch from
 
The Game of Thrones Collection
 
51.2 %
 
GAME  OF  THRONES
 
HOUSE TYRELL
 
Growing Strong
 
Limited Edition Collection
 
of Single Malts
 
Clynelish Distillery, Brora, Sutherland

CLYNELISH
1 9 9 7   2 0 1 0
52,4 %                                     
WHISKYCAFE   L  &  B                                      
De  1401 ste  WHISKY                                     
Winner Scotch Single Malt Whisky Award 2008                                     
Groeten van Aleid en Leon                                     
Distilled; 19/04/1997                                      
Matured Bourbon Hogshead cask nr. 4647                                      
Specially selected by Bresser en Timmer for                                     
Whiskycafe L & B

Gekregen van Aleid en Leon op 14 mei 2011 in het Kompas waar zij Aleid’s
verjaardag vierden.

CLYNELISH
VINTAGE  1 9 9 6
20 years 46 %                                                    
Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distilled on: 11.12.1996
Matured in: a Refill Butt
Cask No: 11376
Bottled on: 20.01.2017
40 Bottles
Natural Colour
No Chillfiltration
Casks individually selected and bottles by
Signatory Vintage Scotch Whisky Co. Ltd Pilochry




CLYNELISH   also see BRORA

CANDLEWAX, SMOKE
Brora, Sutherland. Licentiehouder: Ainslie & Heilbron (Distillers) Limited. Onderdeel van Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd. (S.M.D.). De malt divisie van United Distillers Ltd. Eigendom van Guinness.
Gebouwd in 1967 - 1968.
Clynelish bezit 6 ketels met een jaarproduktie van 3,2 miljoen liter spirit per jaar.
Het proceswater en koelwater is afkomstig van één bron: de Clynemilton Burn.
Op 12 Mei 1997 werd de fusie aangekondigd tussen Guinness en Grand Metropolitan, (GrandMet). Op 16 Oktober 1997 staakt de Fransman Bernard Arnault van L M V H zijn verzet tegen de fusie voor een afkoopsom van ƒ 800.000.000. De nieuwe naam van de gefuseerden zou eerst G M G Brands worden, maar op 22 Oktober 1997 werd bekend gemaakt dat de naam Diageo zou worden, afgeleid van het Latijnse woord voor dag en het Griekse woord voor wereld.
Diageo wordt het grootste drankenconcern ter wereld, groter dan Seagram en Allied Domecq samen en met een omzet van 40 miljard gulden.
Op 28 Maart 1998 verkoopt Diageo het whiskymerk Dewar's en het ginmerk Bombay voor één miljard aan Bacardi Martini. Het afstoten van de twee merken was een voorwaarde die door de Amerikaanse mededingingautoriteiten was gesteld aan de goedkeuring van de fusie tussen Guinness en Grand Metropolitan.
Dewar's heeft een omzet van ruim één miljard gulden en een marktaandeel van 10 %. Het merk is marktleider in de V.S.
Diageo is de overkoepelende naam voor United Distillers & Vintners (U.D.V.) Pilsbury, Guinness en Burger King.
Onderdeel van de verkoop houdt ook in de overname van de distilleerderijen Aberfeldy, Aultmore, Craigellachie en Royal Brackla door Bacardi Martini.
Brora, Sutherland. Licentiehouder: Ainslie & Heilbron (Distillers) Limited. Onderdeel van Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd. (S.M.D.). De malt divisie van United Distillers Ltd.Eigendom van Guinness.

Gebouwd in 1967 - 1968.
Clynelish bezit 6 ketels met een jaarproduktie van 3,2 miljoen liter spirit per jaar. Het proceswater en koelwater is afkomstig van één bron: de Clynemilton Burn.
Op 12 Mei 1997 werd de fusie aangekondigd tussenGuinness en Grand Metropolitan, (GrandMet), en op 16 Oktober 1997 staakt de Fransman Bernard Arnault van L M V H zijn verzet tegen de fusie voor een afkoopsom van ƒ 800.000.000. De nieuwe naam van de gefuseerden zou eerst G M G Brands worden, maar op 22 Oktober 1997 werd bekend gemaakt dat de naam Diageo zou worden, afgeleid van het Latijnse woord voor dag en het Griekse woord voorwereld.
Diageo wordt het grootste drankenconcern ter wereld, groter dan Seagram en Allied Domecq samen en met een omzet van 40 miljard gulden. Op 28 Maart 1998 verkoopt Diageohet whiskymerk Dewar's en het ginmerk Bombay voor één miljard aan Bacardi Martini.
Het afstoten van de twee merken was een voorwaarde die door de Amerikaanse mededingingautoriteiten was gesteld aan de goedkeuring van de fusie tussen Guinness en Grand Metropolitan. Dewar's heeft een omzet van ruim één miljard gulden en een marktaandeel van 10 %. Het merk is marktleider in de V.S.
Diageo is de overkoepelende naam voor United Distillers & Vintners (U.D.V.) Pilsbury, Guinness en Burger King.Onderdeel van de verkoop houdt ook in de overname van de distilleerderijen Aberfeldy, Aultmore, Craigellachie en Royal Brackla door Bacardi Martini.
Maart 2002 wordt bekend dat Diageo ook zijn merk Malibuverkoopt aan Allied Domecq voor 6 900 miljoen, Diageo had 1,2 miljard Euro gevraagd. Diageo krijgt nog wel 6 85 miljoen schadevergoeding van Vivendi Universal, voor de perikelen rond het merk Captain Morgan .Ook verkrijgt Allied Domecq de Amerikaanse Champagnepoot Mumm Cuvee Napa voor bijna 6 32 miljoen.

De omzet van Malibu is 6 70 miljoen, die van Mumm Cuvee Napa 6 4,8 miljoen. De Franse poot van Mumm was al in handen van Allied Domecq
Het water voor Clynelish komt van de Clynemilton Burn.
De Mash tun is 12 ton.

Er staan acht Wash backs van elk 60.000 liter.
De drie Wash stills hebben elk een inhoud van 27000 liter, de drie Spirit stills elk 15.000 liter en worden met stoom verhit.
2005 Kapaciteit: 3.400.000 liter spirit per jaar.
Clynelish Distillery was established in 1819 by the Marquess of Stafford who had married the heiress of the vastSutherland estates and took that name later when he was made a duke. He had conceived a scheme of economic improvement that entailed moving the inhabitants from the interior to the seaboard where land was allotted to them. The distillery fitted into a plan for regenerating arable farms on the coastal strip.
Its origin was described by James Loch, the Marquess's Lands Commissioner, in 1820: "The first farm beyond the people's lot (at Brora) is Clynelish which has recently been let to Mr. Harper from the county of Midlothian. Upon this farm also there has just been erected a distillery at an expense of £750. This was done ... to afford the smaller tenants upon the estate a steady and ready market for their grain without their being obliged to dispose of it to the illegal distiller". It was hoped that the existence of the distillery would put an end to illicit distilling, a practice that, in Loch's words, had nursed the people "in every species of deceit, vice, idleness and dissipation".
Loch's account is illustrated by an architect's elevation and plan of the buildings. These ex-emplify a very early purpose-built distillery. Other distilleries of this date, and much later, were typically outbuildings of farmsteads, fitted up for distilling, or occasionally, as at Oban, converted breweries. Even so, the distillery and farm at Clynelish were integrated in one operation. A piggery is marked on the architect's plan. Spent grains left over from the manufacturing processes fed the pigs, and they in turn fertilised the "larger proportion of unimproved land" added to the farm "in consequence of the command of manure which the distillery will afford the tenant". Part ofBrora Muir was reclaimed for farming by this means, and coal from the mine at Brora was used in the distillery's furnaces.
James Harper started up with one wash still and one spirit still, with respective capacities of 200 and 87 gallons. He produced 10,015 gallons, on which he paid duty of £2,774, in1821-22. The next lessee was Andrew Ross in 1834,followed by George Lawson in 1846. Lawson, the brother of the local bank agent, was well placed to obtain capital. He made substantial improvements and extensions, notably by the erection of a new malt kiln and the replacement of the original stills. The Lawsons seem to have been efficient farmers: two Highland oxen from Clynelish won the first prize in their class, and sheep gained other awards, at the Smithfield Show in1894.
George Lawson & Sons sold the business to Ainslie & Co.,Scotch whisky blenders, of Leith, in 1896. Harper's Weekly, a trade journal, then described it as "a singularly valuable property, as the make has always obtained the highest price of any single Scotch whisky. It is sent out, duty-paid, to private customers all over the kingdom; and it also commands a very valuable export trade: the demand for it in that way is so great that the proprietors ... have for many years been obliged to refuse trade orders".
The new owners enlarged productive capacity and warehouse accommodation to meet the demand from wholesalers as well as from private customers. Rebuilding was completed in 1897.
A stone bearing the coats of arms of the Marquess of Stafford and the Countess of Sutherland, and the date"1820", has been preserved on the gable wall of the stillhouse, just under the bell-cote.
Ainslie's business was put in the hands of a trustee in 1912.John Risk, who already held a 50% interest in Clynelish,bought the other 50% and offered it to The Distillers Company Limited.
The Clynelish Distillery Co. Ltd. was formed, with a capital of £0, owned in equal proportions by Risk and DCL. With the acquisition in 1916 of Coleburn Distillery, Speyside, the capital was increased to £0, one third of which was owned byJohn Walker & Sons of Kilmarnock. DCL acquired all the shares in 1925 and five years later transferred Clynelish to its subsidiary, Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd.
It was reckoned in 1928 that manual labour had been reduced to a minimum. The Pelton water wheel, which had originally supplied all the motive power, had been supplemented in1897 by a horizontal steam engine, made by Shanks of Arbroath. A system of screw and band conveyors moved raw materials throughout the buildings, and a power house was being built to generate electric light.
Clynelish closed in March 1931 as a result of the economic depression. It restarted in September 1938, only to shut down from May 1941 until November 1945, on account of wartime restrictions on the supply of barley to distillers.
Technological change came in the post-war years. The water wheel and the steam engine were displaced by electric power in the 1960's. The two stills, which were heated by a coal-burning furnace, hand-fired, were converted to internal heating by steam in 1961. The distillery took half of its coal supply from Ross Pit, Brora, and half from the Lowlands. The last delivery of coal was made on 4 November 1966. The boiler was then converted for burning oil.
A new distillery was built on an adjacent site in 1967-68. It had six stills, all heated by steam from an oil-fired boiler. The new distillery was given the name "Clynelish". The old distillery was closed for a time, and then reopened, after the rebuilding of the mash house, as "Brora Distillery" in April 1975. It is the subject of the drawing at the head of this leaflet.
Both distilleries use the same water supply, piped from a weir on the Clynemilton Burn on the shoulder of Colbhein. They occupy a site of approximately 5 acres (2 hectares). SMDprovides seven houses for distillery employees. It also ownsClynelish Farm, which covers 320 acres (130 hectares) and is let to tenants.The distiller's licence is held by Ainslie & Heilbron (Distillers) Ltd., of Glasgow, blenders of Royal Edinburgh Scotch whisky. They also bottle and sellClynelish single malt whisky.
October 2005
Diageo has announced that its 2005 Annual Rare Malts Selection will be the last.
The collection will consist of four cask strenght single malts from closed distilleries; Glen Mhor 28 years old, Millburn 35 years old, Glendullan 26 years old and Linkwood 30 years old.
Dr. Nicholas Morgan, global malts marketing director commented: 'As the Special Releases are now well established, it makes less sence to continue selecting and promoting a parallel series of Rare Malts with his own separate indentity'.In future, all premium and rare whiskies will be made available in the annual Special Releases series
Water: Clynemilton Burn
Mash tun: 1 x 12 tonnes
Wasbacks:  8 x 60.000 litres
3 wash stills x 15000 litres
3 spirit stills x 27.000 litres
Output: 3.000.000 ltres
Diageo to invest £30m in Clynelish
January, 2014
Diageo has announced plans for a £30 million expansion of itsClynelish distillery in Sutherland.
In the latest major stage in Diageo's £1 billion programme to increase Scotch whisky production, plans have been submitted to Highland Council for the major expansion of Diageo'smost northerly distillery.
The Clynelish expansion will take the on-going capital investment by Diageo in the Highland Council region alone to almost £150m, including major expansions at Glen Ord andTeaninich Distilleries and plans to build a new distillery atAlness.
Diageo's director of distillation and maturation, Keith Millersaid: "Clynelish is a very special distillery, producing spirit which is highly prized for its quality and character and is an important part of our Scotch whisky blending inventory, so this is an important part of our investment programme.
The Clynelish announcement came as six copper stills were delivered to the Glen Ord Distillery as part of the £25 million expansion plan which is doubling the size of that distillery to more than 10 million litres per annum.
Diageo is also doubling the capacity at the Teaninich distillery in Alness and is progressing plans to build a new malt whisky distillery and renewable energy plant on land adjacent to Teaninich. In total these projects represent a capital investment of nearly £150million across the Highland Council area.
Clynelish Distillery produces single malt whisky, it describes as "unique in both taste and texture" which is highly prized byDiageo's master blenders for use in brands such as Johnnie Walker. Clynelish is also a highly regarded as a single malt whisky in its own right. The distillery is also home to one ofDiageo's 12 distillery visitor centres, receiving more than 5,000 visitors per year. Clynelish is near the Sutherlandtown of Brora.
Under the plans submitted Clynelish distillery will see the installation of an additional mash tun, 10 new washbacks and six new copper stills for distilling the spirit. This adds to the 10 washbacks and six stills which the distillery currently has and will effectively double the production capacity to 9m litres of alcohol per annum, while retaining the character and quality of the spirit. A bioenergy plant is also planned for the site to provide non-fossil fuel energy to power the distillery.The world's leading premium drinks business, is also investing in new warehousing to store the additional spirit, with a major new bonded warehouse site being developed at Cluny in Fife.
Maart 2002 wordt bekend dat Diageo ook zijn merk Malibu verkoopt aan Allied Domecq voor 6 900 miljoen, Diageo had 1,2 miljard Euro gevraagd.
Diageo krijgt nog wel 6 85 miljoen schadevergoeding van Vivendi Universal, voor de perikelen rond het merk Captain Morgan.
Ook verkrijgt Allied Domecq de Amerikaanse Champagnepoot Mumm Cuvee Napa voor bijna 6 32 miljoen.
De omzet van Malibu is 6 70 miljoen, die van Mumm Cuvee Napa 6 4,8 miljoen. De Franse poot van Mumm was al in handen van Allied Domecq.
Het water voor Clynelish komt van de Clynemilton Burn.
De Mash tun is 12 ton.
Er staan acht Wash backs van elk 60.000 liter.
De drie Wash stills hebben elk een inhoud van 27000 liter, de drie Spirit stills elk 15.000 liter en worden met stoom verhit.
2005 Kapaciteit: 3.400.000 liter spirit per jaar.

Clynelish Distillery was established in 1819 by the Marquess of Stafford who had married the heiress of the vast Sutherland estates and took that name later when he was made a duke. He had conceived a scheme of economic improvement that entailed moving the inhabitants from the interior to the seaboard where land was allotted to them. The distillery fitted into a plan for regenerating arable farms on the coastal strip.
Its origin was described by James Loch, the Marquess's Lands Commissioner, in 1820: "The first farm beyond the people's lot (at Brora) is Clynelish which has recently been let to Mr. Harper from the county of Midlothian. Upon this farm also there has just been erected a distillery at an expense of £750. This was done ... to afford the smaller tenants upon the estate a steady and ready market for their grain without their being obliged to dispose of it to the illegal distiller". It was hoped that the existence of the distillery would put an end to illicit distilling, a practice that, in Loch's words, had nursed the people "in every species of deceit, vice, idleness and dissipation".
Loch's account is illustrated by an architect's elevation and plan of the buildings. These ex-emplify a very early purpose-built distillery. Other distilleries of this date, and much later, were typically outbuildings of farmsteads, fitted up for distilling, or occasionally, as at Oban, converted breweries. Even so, the distillery and farm at Clynelish were integrated in one operation. A piggery is marked on the architect's plan. Spent grains left over from the manufacturing processes fed the pigs, and they in turn fertilised the "larger proportion of unimproved land" added to the farm "in consequence of the command of manure which the distillery will afford the tenant". Part of Brora Muir was reclaimed for farming by this means, and coal from the mine at Brora was used in the distillery's furnaces.
James Harper started up with one wash still and one spirit still, with respective capacities of 200 and 87 gallons. He produced 10,015 gallons, on which he paid duty of £2,774, in 1821-22. The next lessee was Andrew Ross in 1834, followed by George Law-son in 1846. Lawson, the brother of the local bank agent, was well placed to obtain capital. He made substantial improvements and extensions, notably by the erection of a new malt kiln and the replacement of the original stills. The Lawsons seem to have been efficient farmers: two Highland oxen from Clynelish won the first prize in their class, and sheep gained other awards, at the Smithfield Show in 1894.
George Lawson & Sons sold the business to Ainslie & Co., Scotch whisky blenders, of Leith, in 1896. Harper's Weekly, a trade journal, then described it as "a singularly valuable property, as the make has always obtained the highest price of any single Scotch whisky. It is sent out, duty-paid, to private customers all over the kingdom; and it also commands a very valuable export trade: the demand for it in that way is so great that the proprietors ... have for many years been obliged to refuse trade orders".
The new owners enlarged productive capacity and warehouse accommodation to meet the demand from wholesalers as well as from private customers. Rebuilding was completed
  
In 1897. A stone bearing the coats of arms of the Marquess of Stafford and the Countess of Sutherland, and the date "1820", has been preserved on the gable wall of the stillhouse, just under the bell-cote.
Ainslie's business was put in the hands of a trustee in 1912. John Risk, who already held a 50% interest in Clynelish, bought
the other 50% and offered it to The Distillers Company Limited. The Clynelish Distillery Co. Ltd. was formed, with a capital of £0, owned in equal proportions by Risk and DCL. With the acquisition in 1916 of Coleburn Distillery, Speyside, the capital was increased to £0, one third of which was owned by John Walker & Sons of Kilmarnock. DCL acquired all the shares in 1925 and five years later transferred Clynelish to its subsidiary, Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd.
It was reckoned in 1928 that manual labour had been reduced to a minimum. The Pelton water wheel, which had originally supplied all the motive power, had been supple-mented in 1897 by a horizontal steam engine, made by Shanks of Arbroath. A system of screw and band conveyors moved raw materials throughout the buildings, and a power house was being built to generate electric light.
Clynelish closed in March 1931 as a result of the economic depression. It restarted in Sep-tember 1938, only to shut down from May 1941 until November 1945, on account of wartime restrictions on the supply of barley to distillers.
Technological change came in the post-war years. The water wheel and the steam engine were displaced by electric power in the 1960's. The two stills, which were heated by a coal-burning furnace, hand-fired, were converted to internal heating by steam in 1961. The dis-tillery took half of its coal supply from Ross Pit, Brora, and half from the Lowlands. The last delivery of coal was made on 4 November 1966. The boiler was then converted for burning oil.
A new distillery was built on an adjacent site in 1967-68. It had six stills, all heated by steam from an oil-fired boiler. The new distillery was given the name "Clynelish". The old distillery was closed for a time, and then reopened, after the rebuilding of the mash house, as "Brora Distillery" in April 1975. It is the subject of the drawing at the head of this leaflet.
Both distilleries use the same water supply, piped from a weir on the Clynemilton Burn on the shoulder of Colbhein. They occupy a site of approximately 5 acres (2 hectares). SMD pro-vides seven houses for distillery employees. It also owns Clynelish Farm, which covers 320 acres (130 hectares) and is let to tenants.
The distiller's licence is held by Ainslie & Heilbron (Distillers) Ltd., of Glasgow, blenders of Royal Edinburgh Scotch whisky. They also bottle and sell Clynelish single malt whisky.
October 2005
Diageo has announced that its 2005 Annual Rare Malts Selection will be the last.
The collection will consist of four cask strenght single malts from closed distilleries; Glen Mhor 28 years old, Millburn 35 years old, Glendullan 26 years old and Linkwood 30 years old.
Dr. Nicholas Morgan, global malts marketing director commented: 'As the Special Releases are now well established, it makes less sence to continue selecting and promoting a parallel series of Rare Malts with his own separate indentity'.
In future, all premium and rare whiskies will be made available in the annual Special Re-leases series
Mash tun: 1 x 12 tonnes
Wasbacks:  8 x 60.000 litres
3 wash stills x 15000 litres
3 spirit stills x 27.000 litres
Output: 3.000.000 ltres
Diageo to invest £30m in Clynelish
January, 2014
Diageo has announced plans for a £30 million expansion of its Clynelish distillery in Sutherland.
In the latest major stage in Diageo's £1 billion programme to increase Scotch whisky production, plans have been submitted to Highland Council for the major expansion of Diageo's most northerly distillery.
The Clynelish expansion will take the on-going capital investment by Diageo in the Highland Council region alone to almost £150m, including major expansions at Glen Ord and Teaninich Distilleries and plans to build a new distillery at Alness.
Diageo's director of distillation and maturation, Keith Miller said: "Clynelish is a very special distillery, producing spirit which is highly prized for its quality and character and is an important part of our Scotch whisky blending inventory, so this is an important part of our investment programme.
The Clynelish announcement came as six copper stills were delivered to the Glen Ord Distillery as part of the £25 million expansion plan which is doubling the size of that distillery to more than 10million litres per annum.
Diageo is also doubling the capacity at the Teaninich distillery in Alness and is progressing plans to build a new malt whisky distillery and renewable energy plant on land adjacent to Teaninich. In total these projects represent a capital investment of nearly £150million across the Highland Council area.
Clynelish Distillery produces single malt whisky, it describes as "unique in both taste and texture" which is highly prized by Diageo's master blenders for use in brands such as Johnnie Walker. Clynelish is also a highly regarded as a single malt whisky in its own right. The distillery is also home to one of Diageo's 12 distillery visitor centres, receiving more than 5,000 visitors per year. Clynelish is near the Sutherland town of Brora.
Under the plans submitted Clynelish distillery will see the installation of an additional mash tun, 10 new washbacks and six new copper stills for distilling the spirit. This adds to the 10 washbacks and six stills which the distillery currently has and will effectively double the production capacity to 9m litres of alcohol per annum, while retaining the character and quality of the spirit. A bio-energy plant is also planned for the site to provide non-fossil fuel energy to power the distillery.
The world's leading premium drinks business, is also investing in new warehousing to store the additional spirit, with a major new bonded warehouse site being developed at Cluny in Fife

Clear worts and long ferments start the process, while distillation involves maximising copper conversation – unusually, but not uniquely, Clynelish’s spirit stills are larger than its wash stills.

This regime would help to produce a fruity spirit were it not for what happens in the feints receiver. In any distillery there is a natural precipitation of oils in this tank which would normally be removed during the distillery’s annual silent season when the plant is fully cleaned.

When this happened at Clynelish, the waxy character disappeared. Realising that the gunk had specific qualities, these days it is removed during silent season and then replaced. The mature character retains waxiness as a mouth-coating texture allied to citric notes and, occasionally, a little mineral/ozone hint. Tastings of single malts (and blends) from the 1950s and 60s suggests that waxy was a significantly more prevalent style industry-wide in those days.

When low-peated or unpeated, Brora shares this thick, waxy, oils kinlike character along with scented grass, fruits and pepper. When heavily smoked, the peat comes across as maritime.

Clynelish’s ultimate success – indeed cult status – is one which came out of human tragedy. This is one of a number of ‘Clearance’ distilleries [Talisker is another example] which appeared in the earlier part of the 19th century. This was a period when some landowners, seeing the profits which could be made from sheep farming, forcibly moved their tenant farmers from their ancestral lands. Caithness andSutherland were the scenes of the most brutal of these clearances, the perpetrators The Duke (and especially Duchess) of Sutherland and their estate managers.

Some of the farmers were shipped abroad, others went to theCentral Belt, those who remained were in this case moved to new settlements where they were put to work for their laird’s new business enterprises.

The Duke of Sutherland established a number of businesses in the town of Brora: a coal mine, brick and tile works, weaving, salt panning and a distillery which he calledClynelish. All were staffed by former farmers who were paid in coin which could only be redeemed at the company’s shops – whose profits went to the Duke.

The distillery was not a success in its early years. It only began to build a reputation in 1896 when blenders Ainslie & Heilbron bought it in partnership with John Risk, who was to become the outright owner in 1912. By the end of the century it had become the most highly-priced single malt

Risk worked in close co-operation with DCL and the blending firm of John Walker & Sons and when the latter was folded into DCL in 1925, Clynelish came too. It closed in the 1930sbut produced small amounts during WWII.

In common with a huge number of DCL distilleries, a new plant with six stills was built alongside the original distillery in1968 (until then Clynelish had only a single pair of stills). The old plant was, briefly, put into mothballs for a year. It then ran alongside as ‘Clynelish B’. It was renamed Brora in 1969,when it began producing a heavily-peated spirit for blending purposes. This was the result of, initially, Islay suffering from a drought and then Caol Ila being rebuilt. Brora’s heavily peated years continued until 1973, after which the smoke was cut back (sometimes totally). It finally closed forever in 1983. These days, like many lost distilleries, it has become a cult malt.

Clynelish itself has long played an important role within the house of John Walker & Sons with a 14-year-old, originally launched as part of Diageo’s ‘Hidden Malts’ portfolio, and an oloroso-finished Distiller’s Edition as the range.

In 2014, Diageo announced a £30m expansion of Clynelish,but the plan has since been postponed.

1819
Clynelish founded by the
first Duke of Sutherland
1827
Its first licensed distiller, James Harper,
goes bankrupt. John Matheson
assumes control
1846
The distillery is sold to
George Lawson & Sons
1896
James Ainslie & Heilbron
acquire Clynelish
1912
DCL takes over the distillery with
James Risk
1916
John Walker & Sons buys a stake in
James Risk 'stock
1931
Clynelish is mothballed
1960
Production resumes
The distillery becomes electrifies
1967
A second distillery, also named Clynelish,
is built next door.
1968
The original distillery is mothballed
1969
The original distillery is reopened as Brora
and is started producing a very
peated malt
1983
Brora is closed in March
1988
Clynelish becomes one of The
Classic Malts of Scotland
2002
Clynelish 14 Year Old is launched
2006
A Distiller's Edition is released 1991
finished in oloroso sherry cask
2009
A 12 years old is released for The
Friends of Classic Malts
2010
A SC Manager's Choice 1997 is released
2014
Diageo announce a £30m investment
in the expansion of Clynelish
Clynelish Select Reserve is released
2015
A Second Release of Clynelish Select
Reserve is released
2016
Closed for refurnishing
2017
Open again
2019
Clynelish House Tyrell is released
as part of the Game of Thrones Series
2020
Capacity: 4.800.000 Ltrs
Output: 4.800.000 Ltrs
A 26 year old Prima and Ultima is released
2021
A 16 year old Four Corners of Scotland is launched
2022
A 12 years old 58,5 % Wildcat's Golden Gaze
is launched in the Legends Untold Series
Capacity: 4.800.000 Ltrs
Output : 4.800.000 Ltrs

CONDENSER TYPE i
Shell and tube
FERMENTATION TIME i
Minimum 55hrs
FILLING STRENGTH i
63.5%
GRIST WEIGHT (T) i
12.5
HEAT SOURCE i
Steam
MALT SPECIFICATION i
Non peated
MALT SUPPLIER i
Mainly in house
MASH TUN TYPE i
Lauter
NEW-MAKE PHENOL LEVEL i
Non peaty
NEW-MAKE STRENGTH i
67-68%
SPIRIT STILL CHARGE (L) i
19,000
SPIRIT STILL SHAPE i
Neck ball
STILLS i
6
WASH STILL CHARGE (L) i
17,000
WASH STILL SHAPE i
Neck ball
WASHBACK TYPE i
8 wood, 2 steel
WASHBACKS i
10
WATER SOURCE i
Clynemilton Byrne
WORT CLARITY i
Clear
YEAST TYPE i
Pressed

Diageo
1997 - present
United Distillers
1986 - 1997
Distillers Company Limited
1925 - 1986
John Risk
1896 - 1925
Ainslie & Heilbron Distillers
1896 - 1912
(jointly with John Risk)
George Lawson
1846 - 1896
Andrew Ross
1834 - 1846
James Harper
1828 - 1834
John Matheson
1827 - 1828
James Harper
1825 - 1827
Marquis of Stafford
1819 - 1825

AINSLIE & HEILBRON DISTILLERS
For a few years Ainslie & Heilbron owned and operated the original Clynelish distillery (also known as Brora). However, to stave off bankruptcy after the Pattison Crash, it sold the distillery to concentrate on whisky blending. A number of mergers soon followed until it joined DCL in 1925.

This company can trace its origins back to 1868 whenJames Ainslie & Co. was founded as a wine and spirit merchant in Leith, Edinburgh. The company proved to be very successful and, at the height of the whisky boom, purchased the Clynelish distillery in 1896 and completely rebuilt it within two years.

However, James Ainslie & Co. suffered along with the rest of the Scotch whisky industry after the Pattison crash of 1898, and in 1912 only survived bankruptcy by selling Clynelish to James Risk (the former owner ofBankier distillery in the Scottish Lowlands) and DCL,who took a half share each. The next year the company merged with fellow blenders Walter Baillie & Sons, Robertson Brothers and John Gillon & Co. to formAinslie, Baillie & Co. of Leith.

This company traded until 1921 when, upon the retirement of Robert Ainslie, son of founder James, the company was liquidated and taken over by Sir James Calder, the chairman of blender Alexander & Macdonald. Calder merged the company with another old blending company, David Heilbron Ltd., and distilling company Colville Greenlees & Co, owner of theArgyll distillery in Campbeltown, to form Ainslie & Heilbron (Distillers) Ltd.

By 1925 Ainslie & Heilbron had become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Calder’s expanded MacDonald, Greenlees & Williams Ltd. of Leith. That same year he soldMacDonald, Greenlees & Williams to DCL, along with his own distillery Dalwhinnie, bringing Ainslie & Heilbron under the control of the distilling giant.

Ainslie's
BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY
King's Legend
BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY
Real McTavish

Diageo
Arthur Bell & Sons
Bulloch Lade & Company
Distillers Company Limited
Grand Metropolitan
Guinness UDV
James Buchanan & Company
John Haig & Company
John Walker & Sons
Justerini & Brooks
Lothian Distillers Company
Mackie & Co
Macleay Duff Distillers
Peter Dawson
RH Thomson & Company Distillers
W&A Gilbey
White Horse Distillers
William Sanderson & Son

GEORGIE CRAWFORD TO REVIVE PORT ELLEN
May 2018
Lagavulin distillery manager Georgie Crawford is to leave her post in order to bring cult Islay single malt Port Ellen back into production.

Georgie Crawford is ‘thrilled’ to take on the task of reviving Port Ellen
Meanwhile, Clynelish site operations manager Stewart Bowman will quit his role to revive single malt whisky production at neighbouring Brora in the Highlands,distillery owner Diageo has announced.

Crawford and Bowman will both have the title of project implementation manager for their respective distilleries – part of Diageo’s plans to revive production at the two sites, announced last October.

The moves also see Colin Gordon, currently site operations manager at Port Ellen Maltings, take over from Crawford as Lagavulin distillery manager.

The changes will take effect shortly after next week’s Islay Festival, Diageo said.

‘It has been a real privilege to be the Lagavulin distillery manager and to work with the fantastic team there for so many years,’ said Crawford.

‘However, the opportunity to bring Port Ellen distilleryback into production truly is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I am thrilled to take it on.’

Bowman said he was ‘hugely excited’ to be given the task of reviving production at Brora. ‘The whisky at Brora is revered for its quality, and it is an honour to have the job of bringing distillation back so we can produce a new generation of exceptional Brora Scotch whisky,’ he added.

Port Ellen and Brora both closed in 1983, deemed surplus to requirements during a grim period for the Scotch whisky industry, but have since acquired a cult status among lovers of malt whisky.

They are set to return to production in 2020 – Brora by refurbishing existing buildings, and Port Ellen in a new building on the Islay site.

Meanwhile, Diageo has announced details of this year’s Islay Festival bottlings: an 18-year-old cask strength Lagavulin (6,000 bottles, 53.9% abv, £130); and a 10-year-old cask strength Caol Ila (2,496 bottles, 58.2% abv, £100).

1 spirit still 13,500 litres

Clynelish and Brora Distilleries
Clynelish Distillery was established in 1819 by the Marquess of Stafford who had married the heiress of the vast Sutherland estates and took that name later when he was made a duke. He had conceived a scheme of economic improvement that entailed moving the inhabitants from the interior to the seaboard where land was allotted to them.
The distillery fitted into a plan for regenerating arable farms on the coastal strip.

Its origin was described by James Loch, the Marquess's Lands Commissioner, in 1820: "The first farm beyond the people's lot (at Brora) is Clynelish which has recently been let to Mr. Harper from the county of Midlothian. Upon this farm also there has just been erected a distillery at an expense of £750. This was done ... to afford the smaller tenants upon the estate a steady and ready market for their grain without their being obliged to dispose of it to the illegal distiller". It was hoped that the existence of the distillery would put an end to illicit distilling, a practice that, in Loch's words, had nursed the people "in every species of deceit, vice, idleness and dissipation".

Loch's account is illustrated by an architect's elevation and plan of the buildings. These exemplify a very early purpose-built distillery. Other distilleries of this date, and much later, were typically outbuildings of farmsteads, fitted up for distilling, or occasionally, as at Oban, converted breweries. Even so, the distillery and farm at Clynelish were integrated in one operation. A piggery is marked on the architect's plan. Spent grains left over from the manufac¬turing processes fed the pigs, and they in turn fertilised the "larger proportion of unimproved land" added to the farm "in consequence of the command of manure which the distillery will afford the tenant". Part of Brora Muir was reclaimed for farming by this means, and coal from the mine at Brora was used in the distillery's furnaces.

James Harper started up with one wash still and one spirit still, with respective capacities of 200 and 87 gallons. He produced 10,015 gallons, on which he paid duty of £2,774, in 1821-22. The next lessee was Andrew Ross in 1834, followed by George Lawson in 1846. Lawson, the brother of the local bank agent, was well placed to obtain capital. He made substantial improvements and extensions, notably by the erection of a new malt kiln and the replacement of the original stills. The Lawsons seem to have been efficient farmers: two Highland oxen from Clynelish won the first prize in their class, and sheep gained other awards, at the Smithfield Show in 1894.

George Lawson & Sons sold the business to Ainslie & Co., Scotch whisky blenders, of Leith, in 1896. Harper's Weekly, a trade journal, then described it as "a singularly valuable property, as the make has always obtained the highest price of any single Scotch whisky. It is sent out, duty-paid, to private customers all over the kingdom; and it also commands a very valuable export trade: the demand for it in that way is so great that the proprietors ... have for many years been obliged to refuse trade orders".
The new owners enlarged productive capacity and warehouse accommodation to meet the demand from wholesalers as well as from private customers. Rebuilding was completed in 1897. A stone bearing the coats of arms of the Marquess of Stafford and the Countess of Sutherland, and the date "1820", has been preserved on the gable wall of the stillhouse, just under the bell-cote.

Ainslie's business was put in the hands of a trustee in 1912. John Risk, who already held a 50% interest in Clynelish, bought
the other 50% and offered it to The Distillers Company Limited. The Clynelish Distillery Co. Ltd. was formed, with a capital of £20,000, owned in equal proportions by Risk and DCL. With the acquisition in 1916 of Coleburn Distillery, Speyside, the capital was increased to £30,000, one third of which was owned by John Walker & Sons of Kilmarnock. DCL acquired all the shares in 1925 and five years later transferred Clynelish to its subsidiary, Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd.

It was reckoned in 1928 that manual labour had been reduced to a minimum. The Pelton water wheel, which had originally supplied all the motive power, had been supplemented in 1897 by a horizontal steam engine, made by Shanks of Arbroath. A system of screw and band conveyors moved raw materials throughout the buildings, and a power house was being built to generate electric light.

Clynelish closed in March 1931 as a result of the economic depression. It restarted in September 1938, only to shut down from May 1941 until November 1945, on account of wartime restrictions on the supply of barley to distillers.

Technological change came in the post-war years. The water wheel and the steam engine were displaced by electric power in the 1960's. The two stills, which were heated by a coal-burning furnace, hand-fired, were converted to internal heating by steam in 1961. The distillery took half of its coal supply from Ross Pit, Brora, and half from the Lowlands. The last delivery of coal was made on 4 November 1966.

The boiler was then converted for burning oil.

A new distillery was built on an adjacent site in 1967-68. It had six stills, all heated by steam from an oil-fired boiler. The new distillery was given the name "Clynelish". The old distillery was closed for a time, and then reopened, after the rebuilding of the mash house, as "Brora Distillery" in April 1975.  

Both distilleries use the same water supply, piped from a weir on the Clynemilton Burn on the shoulder of Colbhein. They occupy a site of approximately 5 acres (2 hectares). SMD pro-vides seven houses for distillery employees. It also owns Clynelish Farm, which covers 320 acres (130 hectares) and is let to tenants.

The distiller's licence is held by Ainslie & Heilbron (Distillers) Ltd., of Glasgow, blenders of Royal Edinburgh Scotch whisky. They also bottle and sell Clynelish single malt whisky.
Water: Clynemilton Burn

LATEST NEWS
CLYNELISH AND CARDHU REVAMP PLANS REVEALED
Plans for a ‘major transformation’ of Clynelish and Cardhu’s distillery visitor centres have been unveiled.
Rural footfall: Clynelish’s ‘comprehensive upgrade’ is set to bring more tourism to Brora
The plans, revealed this week to the distilleries’ stakeholders and neighbours, have been proposed as part of spirits giant Diageo’s £150m investment in its whisky tourism facilities.
Clynelish distillery, which is situated north of Inverness on the Sutherland coast, will receive a ‘comprehensive upgrade’ to its visitor centre, including the installation of a new bar and tasting area alongside ‘enhanced landscaping’ on the land surrounding the distillery.
Jacqueline James-Bow, Clynelish distillery brand home manager, said: ‘Scotch whisky tourism is one of the major attractions driving economic growth in rural communities such as Brora.
‘We are bringing investment and creating exciting new economic opportunities for the community.’
Clynelish is situated adjacent to silent distillery Brora, which is set to reopen in 2020 as part of a separate £35m investment by Diageo.


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