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Welcome to the very first version of the 'Global Malt Lex-icon'.
Lex Kraaijeveld (world renowned specialist in exotic whiskies and fruit flies) and myself
have tried to compile a comprehensive overview of all malt whisky distilleries in the world.
So, that's all MALT whisky distilleries in the world - we haven't included distilleries that
produce other alcoholic beverages like grain whisky, bourbon, wodka, rum, grappa, etc.
These days, the fine art of malt whisky distillation has spread all around the world;
you can find plenty of distilleries in
the rest of Europe but malt whisky has made it
to
Asia, Africa, Australia , North America and South America as well. Quite a trip...

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And that were all the active (and recently closed) malt whisky distilleries in Scotland.
You can find some more information about these distilleries in the
Distillery Data section of Malt Madness.
On this page you can find all 'essentials' about the malt distilleries (active & inactive) situated outside Scotland.

Global Malt Lex-icon
- - -  Last Updated: 15/03/2006  - - -

Europe (other than Scotland)

Distillery

Status

Stills

Brand(s)

Ownership

Website

Ireland

Bushmills
Coleraine
Cooley (1)
Midleton (2 )

18th?
19th
20th
20th

P
P
P
P

Bushmills
Coleraine
Connemara...
FBO / Erin Go Bragh

IDG
-
Cooley
IDG

www.bushmills.com
?
www.cooleywhiskey.com
?

Wales

Penderyn

21st

F

Penderyn

Welsh Whisky Co.

www.welsh-whisky.co.uk

Cornwall

Penhallow
 

21st
 

P
 

NBY
 

Cornish Cyder Farm
 

www.thecornishcyderfarm.co.uk
 

Austria

Ortner
Reisetbauer
Roggenhof (
3 )

20th
20th
20th

E
?
E

Nock-Land
Reisetbauer
Roggenmalzwhisky...

Roggenhof
Reisetbauer
Roggenhof

www.wob.at
www.reisetbauer.at
www.roggenhof.at

Belgium

Pur.e

21st

P

NBY

Pur.e

www.belgianwhisky.com

Czech Republic

Stock
Tesetice

20th
20th

?
P

FBO
Gold Cock

Stock Plzen
-

www.stock.cz
www.likerkadolany.cz

Finland

Pori
Teerenpeli

20th
20th

P
P

Old Buck
NBY

?
?

?
www.teerenpeli.com/panimo

France

Claeyssens
Glann ar Mor
Guillon
Holl
Menhirs (
4)
Warenghem

20th
21st
20th
21st
20th
20th

J
P
E
E
P
P

Wambrechies
NBY
Guillon
Lac 'Holl
NBY / Eddu
Armorik

Wambrechies
Celtic Whisky Co.
Guillon
Holl
Menhirs
Warenghem

www.wambrechies.com
www.glannarmor.com
?
www.gilbertholl.com
www.distillerie.fr
www.distillerie-warenghem.com

Germany

Blaue Maus (5)
Höhler
Lantenhammer
Mößlein
Sonnenschein
Univ. Hohenheim

20th
21st
20th
20th
20th
21st

E
E
E
E
?
?

Blaue Maus...
NBY
Slyrs
Fränkischer Whisky
Sonnenschein
?

Blaue Maus
Höhler
Lantenhammer
Mößlein
Sonnenschein
H'heim Universität

www.fleischmann-whisky.de
www.brennerei-hoehler.de
www.lantenhammer.de
www.weingeister.de
www.sonnenschein-brennerei.de
?

Holland

Us Heit

21st

P

Unavailable

Bierbrouwerij Us Heit

www.usheitdistillery.nl

Spain

Molino del Arco

20th

P

FBO

Destilerias Y Crianza

?

Sweden

Mackmyra

20th

P

Mackmyra

Mackmyra

www.mackmyra.se

Switzerland

Bauernhof
Hof Holle
Hotel Waldhaus
Humbel
Käser's Schloss
Locher
Maison Les Vignettes
Schwab
WhiskyShip (
6)
Zürcher
 

20th
20th
21st
20th
21st
21st
20th
21
20th
21st
 

E
E
E
E
?
?
E
?
E
?
 

Swissky
Holle
NBY
Ourbeer
NBY
Santis Swiss H'lander
Glen Vignettes
Büchibägger
?
Zürcher Lakeland
 

Bauernhof
Hof Holle
Hotel Waldhaus
Humbel
Käser's Schloss
Brauerei Locher
Maison Les Vignettes
?
?
Brennerei Zürcher
 

www.swissky.ch
www.single-malt.ch
www.waldhaus-am-see.ch
www.humbel-brand.ch
www.kaesers-schloss.ch
www.appenzeller.ch
www.swhisky.ch
?
?
?
 

Africa

Distillery

Status

Stills

Brand(s)

Ownership

Website

South-Africa

James Sedgwick (7)
 

20th
 

P
 

Three Ships
 

?
 

www.distell.co.za
 

Asia

Distillery

Status

Stills

Brand(s)

Ownership

Website

India

Amrut
Aurangabad
Haryana
Jagatjit Nagar
Kasauli (
8)
Kerala
Khoday
Lucknow
Mohan Nagar (8)
Narang
Ponda
Rampur
Sinclair
Som
South Seas
Ugar

20th
20th
20th
20th
19th
20th
20th
20th
20th
20th
20th
20th
20th
20th
20th
20th

P
P
P
P
P/Co
P
P
P
P/Co
P
P
P
P
P
P
P

Amrut
FBO
FBO
FBO
Solan No. 1
FBO
FBO
FBO
FBO
FBO
McDowell's
FBO
FBO
FBO
FBO
FBO

Amrut
Shaw Wallace
Mudi Distilleries
?
Mohan Meakin
?
?
-
Mohan Meakin
?
United Breweries
?
?
?
?
Ugar Sugar

?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
www.mcdowellindia.com
?
?
?
www.grainalcohol.com
www.ugarsugar.com

Japan

Gotemba
Hakushu
Hakushu Higashi
Hanyu
Karuizawa
Mars
Nishinomiya
Sendai
Shirakawa
Yamazaki
Yoichi

20th
20th
20th
20th
20th
20th
20th
20th
20th
20th
20th

P
P
P
P
P
P
Co
P
P
P
P

Fuji-Gotemba
FBO
Hakushu
Chichibu
Karuizawa
Komagatake, Mars
FBO
Sendai, Miyagikyou
Shirakawa
Yamazaki
Yoichi

Kirin
Suntory
Suntory
?
Mercian
?
Nikka
Nikka
-
Suntory
Nikka

www.kirin.co.jp
www.suntory.co.jp
www.suntory.co.jp
www.toashuzo.com/whisky.htm
www.mercian.co.jp/karuizawa/
www.hombo.co.jp/shinshu/
www.nikka.com
www.nikka.com
?
www.suntory.co.jp
www.nikka.com

Pakistan

Murree

19th

P

Murree

Murree Brewery

www.murreebrewery.com

South Korea

Jinro

20th

P

FBO

-

?

Turkey

Tekel
 

20th
 

?
 

Ankara
 

Tekel
 

www.tekel.gov.tr
 

Australia

Distillery

Status

Stills

Brand(s)

Ownership

Website

Australia

Bakery Hill
Booie Range
Burnie
Great Outback
Great Southern
Lark
Small Concern
Tasmania (9)
Yalumba Winery

21st
20th
20th
20th
21st
20th
20th
20th
20th

P
P
P
?
P
P
P
Ch
?

Bakery Hill
Booie Range
NBY
Great Outback
NBY
Lark
Cradle Mountain
Sullivan's Cove...
Smith's Angaston

Bakery Hill
Booie Range
Betta Milk
-
Gr. Southern Dist. Co.
Lark
-
Tasmania
-

www.bakeryhilldistillery.com.au
www.booie.com
?
?
www.distillery.com.au
www.larkdistillery.com.au
www.tasmanianwhisky.com.au
www.tasdistillery.com.au
www.yalumba.com

New Zealand

Hokonui
Wilson
 

21st
20th
 

P
P
 

Hokonui Moonshine
Lammerlaw, Milford
 

Southern Distilleries
-
 

www.hokonuiwhiskey.com
?
 

North America

Distillery

Status

Stills

Brand(s)

Ownership

Website

Canada

Glenora
Kittling Ridge (10)
Okanagan (11)
Unibroue

20th
20th
20th
21st

P
P
?
?

Glen Breton
FBO
Glen Ogopogo...
NBY

Glenora
Kittling Ridge Distillery
-
Unibroue

www.glenoradistillery.com
www.kittlingridge.com
?
www.unibroue.com

USA - California

Anchor ( 12)
Charbay
Saint George
Saint James
Sweetwater

20th
20th
20th
20th
21st

P
Ch
E
E
E

Old Potrero
Charbay
St. George
Peregrine Rock
NBY

Anchor Brewery
Domaine Charbay
St. George Spirits
Saint James Spirits
Sweetwater

www.anchorbrewing.com
www.charbay.com
www.stgeorgespirits.com
www.saintjamesspirits.com
www.sweetwaterdistillers.com

USA - Colorado

Stranahan

21st

P

NBY

Stranahan's

Yes

USA - Massachusetts

Triple Eight

21st

?

NBY

Cisco Brewers

www.ciscobrewers.com

USA - Ohio

Woodstone Creek

21st

?

NBY

Woodstone Creek

www.woodstonecreek.com

USA - Oregon

Bendistillery
Clear Creek
Edgefield
 

20th
20th
20th
 

?
E
E
 

NBY
McCarthy's
Hogshead
 

Bendistillery
Clear Creek
McMenamins
 

www.bendistillery.com
www.clearcreekdistillery.com
www.mcmenamins.com
 

USA - Virginia

         

Copper Fox

21st

P

Wasmund's

Copper Fox

www.copperfox.biz

South America

Distillery

Status

Stills

Brand(s)

Ownership

Website

Brazil

Busnello
Heublein
Union

20th
20th
20th

?
?
P

FBO
Durfee Hall
Barrilete

?
?
Maltwhisky do Brasil

?
?
www.maltwhisky.com.br

Uruguay

Capurro
Rosario

20th
20th

?
?

FBO
FBO

ANCAP
ANCAP

www.ancap.com.uy/ingles/
?

Venezuela

La Miel
 

20th
 

?
 

FBO
 

Seagram
 

?
 

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few footnotes;

(1) - Cooley distillery in Ireland produces an extensive range of brands.
Connemara, Tyrconnell, Locke's, Kilbeggan, Millars and Inishowen are just a few of them.
(2) - Theoretically, Midleton distillery in Ireland distills 'for blending only' (FBO).
However, somebody got hold of some casks and bottled those under the name 'Erin Go Bragh'.
Tasting notes and a picture can be found in Lex's 'Irish' E-pistle.
(3) - The Roggenhof distillery in Austria uses both rye and barley for two different whiskies.
These whiskies are available under the names 'Roggenmalzwhisky' and 'Gerstenmalzwhisky'.
(4) - Distillerie des Menhirs in France uses a mixture of malted and unmalted buckwheat for their 'Eddu' whisky.
We have been informed that a 'proper' malt whisky should be released in the future. Watch this page for news...
(5) - The German 'Blaue Maus' distillery has released a wide range of bottlings under sometimes hilarious names.
Some examples: Blaue Maus (blue mouse), Gruner Hund (green dog) Schwarzer Pirat, Spinnaker and Krottentaler.
(6) - Whiskyschip isn't a 'distillery' in the sense that it's a seperate building you can visit. It's a 'still set'.
That still set is rented out to others and used once a year at the 'Whiskyshiff' festival in Zurich.
(7) - The only African malt distillery we know of is the James Sedgwick Distillery in South Africa.
According to their website the company was established 1886 in Wellington, in the Cape Winelands.
(8) - The Indian distilleries Kasauli and Mohan Nagar use both pot stills (P) and column stills (Co).
Kasauli uses its column still predominently for malt while Mohan Nagar seems to mostly use the pot still.
(9) - The Tasmania Distillery in, you guessed it, Tasmania, produces the Sullivan's Cove and Old Hobart brands.
Tasmania Distillery is easily confused with the defunct 'Small Concern' (www.tasmanianwhisky.com.au) distillery.
(10) - The Kittling Ridge distillery produces 'Forty Creek' Canadian whiskies containing the malt whisky.
(11) - Brands from the Okanagan distillery in Canada are Glen Ogopogo (seriously) and perhaps (?) Long Wood.
(12) - The Anchor distillery (California, USA) uses rye instead of barley.

And that's it for now.
Do you know of a malt whisky distillery we haven't covered? Or have you spotted an error.
Please don't hesitate and
let us know - our goal is to make the Lex-icon as comprehensive as possible.
 

 

Meanwhile, here's a short 'legend' for the colours and abbreviations used below.
DISTILLERY = Well, that's pretty self explanatory.
Old brown is for silent stills, fresh green for very recent projects.
STATUS = Indicates the century in which the distillery was established;
green for active, red for inactive distilleries.
STILLS = The type of stills; Pot (P), Column (Co), Charentais (Ch), Faraday (F), Eau-de-vie (E) and Jenever (J).
BRANDS = The brands or 'labels' of the available whiskies, if not 'For Blending Only' (FBO) or 'Not Bottled Yet' (NBY).
WEBSITE = The URL of the website, plain and simple. Please let us know if you know a site we haven't listed.
So, without further ado, we give you...

Fettercairn
Glen Albyn
Glenallachie
Glenburgie
Glencadam
Glencraig
Glendronach
Glendullan
Glen Elgin
Glenfarclas
Glenfiddich
Glen Flagler
Glen Garioch
Glenglassaugh
Glengoyne
Glen Grant
Glen Keith
Glenkinchie
Glenlivet
Glenlochy
Glenlossie
Glen Mhor
Glenmorangie
Glen Moray
Glen Ord
Glenrothes
Glen Scotia
Glen Spey
Glentauchers
Glenturret
Glenugie
Glenury Royal
Highland Park
Hillside / Glenesk
Imperial
Inchgower
Inverleven
(Isle of) Jura
Kilchoman
Killyloch
Kinclaith

Kininvie
Knockando
Knockdhu (An Cnoc)
Ladyburn
Lagavulin
Laphroaig
Linkwood
Littlemill / Dunglass
Loch Lomond
Lochnagar
Lochside
Longmorn
Macallan
MacDuff (Glen Deveron)
Mannochmore
Millburn
Miltonduff
Mortlach
Mosstowie
North Port / Brechin
Oban
Pittyvaich
Port Ellen
Pulteney
Rosebank
Saint Magdalene
Scapa
Speyburn
Speyside (Drumguish)
Springbank (Longrow)
Strathisla
Strathmill
Talisker
Tamdhu
Tamnavulin
Teaninich
Tobermory (Ledaig)
Tomatin
Tomintoul
Tormore
Tullibardine

Scotland

Europe

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