Arbikie distillery

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Arbikie Distillery
Region: Highland
Location Inverkeilor
OwnerStirling family
Founded2013
No. of stills
  • 1 wash stills
  • 1 spirit stills
Capacity200,000 L
Website arbikie.com

Arbikie Distilling Limited, [1] trading as Arbikie Distillery, is a scotch whisky, vodka and gin distillery in Inverkeilor, Angus, Scotland. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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History

The distillery was built in 2013 on the Arbikie Highland Estate, a 2,000 acre farm owned by the Stirling family for four generations. [2] [3] There are earlier records of whisky production on the estate that date to 1794. [3] The distillery is owned by Stirling brothers John, Iain and David. [6] [7]

Production uses barley and potatoes from the estate farm. [2] [3] Overall, it is stated that 90% of all raw materials in the production process come from the farm. [6]

Arbikie Hill located south-west of the distillery Arbikie Hill farm from Inverkeilor - geograph.org.uk - 1073226.jpg
Arbikie Hill located south-west of the distillery

In August 2021, the distillery began an agreement with the company EcoSpirits for distribution, to reduce the carbon emissions associated with packaging and distribution. [8] [9]

In December 2021, the distillery was granted £3 million through the Green Distilleries Competition to create a new hydrogen power plant at the distillery. [10] [11]

A new experience visitor centre is due to open in Spring 2022. [6]

Products

The distillery uses pot and column stills from CARL of Germany to produce whisky, gin and vodka. [2]

The core gin expression is named 'Kirsty's Gin' after master distiller Kirsty Black and includes botanicals such as seaweed, carline thistle and Scottish blaeberry. [5]

The distillery also produce a gin called Nàdar (nature) which is branded as climate positive in terms of environmental production. [12] Unusually, the gin uses peas instead of wheat in production. [12] [13] [14]

In 2014, the distillery produced Scotland's first commercial potato vodka. [2] [15] [14] The vodka uses a blend of Maris Piper, King Edwards and Cultra potatoes. [16]

In 2020, the distillery released a Highland Rye whiskey. [17] [7] On release, the rye whisky was the first commercial rye whisky produced for more than 100 years in Scotland. [18]

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