Featured Distilleries
La Alazana Distillery
La Alazana is a family-run farm distillery located in Las Golondrinas, near Lago Puelo in the Andean region of Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina. Founded in 2011 by the Serenelli family, it is recognised a...
Abhainn Dearg Distillery
Abhainn Dearg Distillery (pronounced “Aveen Jarræk”, Gaelic for “Red River”) is located in Uig on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Founded i...
Aberargie Distillery
Aberargie is a farm-based single malt distillery near Perth in Perthshire, Scotland. Built by the Morrison family on their 300-acre farm at Aberargie, it began production in autumn 2017 as a barley-to...
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News
Ardbeg Appoints First Female Manager in Modern Times
Ardbeg has appointed Bryony McNiven as its new distillery manager, effective 1 January 2026. A chemist by training and lifelong Islay local who has worked with Ardbeg for over a decade. Niven will be ...
Ardent Spirits Aquires Liquidated Chapter 7 Indie Bottler
Update Brand Rescued by Ardent Spirits The sector specialist, as it turns out, was not a mysterious consortium of intergalactic accountants but simply Ardent Spirits, a company that already owns Dark ...
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Whisky Comes Marching Out of Poland (With Vodka Looking Mildly Offended)
Polish whisky exports have exploded in the last two years, jumping from 40 million to 197 million PLN and turning the once vodka-ruled market into an unexpected battleground. Vodka still leads in tota...
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Latest Articles
Spirits of Long Forgotten Stills
Published 29/10/2025
Once alive with the hiss of copper and the scent of malted barley, these distilleries now stand silent — their stills cold, their warehouses empty, or their stones long since torn down. Some survive as homes or museums; others exist only in memory and in the rare bottles they left behind. This Halloween at Whiskipedia, we raise a glass to the ghost distilleries whose presence lingers in every dram they left behind.
Spirits of Long Forgotten Stills
‘Craft’ doesn’t always mean handmade
Published 26/10/2025
The word craft has become one of the most overused in the drinks industry. Whether on bottles of whisky, gin, or beer, it promises individuality, authenticity, and care, an antidote to mass production. Yet in whisky, as in beer, “craft” does not always mean handmade. The term is rarely defined, frequently stretched, and sometimes entirely disconnected from the process it describes. While “craft” implies human skill, independence, and tradition, many producers use it as a marketing tool.
‘Craft’ doesn’t always mean handmade
10 Haunted Whisky Distilleries
Published 24/10/2025
Some whisky distilleries have their spooky ghost stories. Here is a selection, best enjoyed with a dram, of course: Glendronach Distillery Speyside distillery Glendronach imported a large quantity of Spanish Oloroso sherry casks in the 1970s. Apparently, while unloading one of the barrels, a stowaway was sighted escaping from an empty barrel, dressed in scarlet and black and clad in a full mantilla (a veil worn by Spanish women from the Middle Ages, which covered the head and neck).
10 Haunted Whisky DistilleriesMore Distilleries
The Ardara Distillery
Ardara Single Malt Irish Whiskey — The Ardara Distillery (Donegal, Ireland) Overview Ardara Single Malt Irish Whiskey is the inaugural single malt from The Ardara Distillery: a triple‑distilled, heavi...
Castle & Key
Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. dreamed of building a showcase distillery as a destination for tourists. The Colonel’s once glorious Old Taylor Distillery was founded in 1887 and shuttered in 1972. Since the...
Walsh Whiskey
Royal Oak distillery began its life as Walsh whisky distillery in 2013 with Italian drinks company Illva Saronno making a major investment to help fund the €25 million ($34.1 million USD) construction...