Benrinnes Distillery

Distillery Details

Meaning:

EN: Pointy Mountain
DE: Spitzer Berg

Region:

Speyside

Location:

Aberlour, Banffshire

Founded:

1826 by Peter McKenzie

Owner:

Diageo

Status:

Active

Capacity:

2.540.000 LPA

Notes:

First distillery destroyed by flooding just 3 years after construction
Like Springbank, partial triple distillation (since 1956)
One of only 13 distilleries still using worm tubs for cooling - 9 of these belong to Diageo