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• The Process
• Malting
• Cereals Intake
• Mashing
• Fermentation
• Distillation
• Maturation

The Process

In 1888, the first full year of production here at North British, the company produced one and a half million proof gallons of spirit.  Now, over one hundred years later we can produce that volume in FIVE weeks.

The Facts 

• We can use upto 150,000 tonnes of cereal in one year. The area required to grow that amount of grain is 18,500 hectares or about 37,000 football pitches.
• The volume of water used each day is enough to give one person a bath every day for FORTY-NINE YEARS.
• The one and a half billionth litre of whisky was produced on 2 Feb. 1998. (The two billionth will be produced in 2008)
• In one week the dark grains plant can produce enough animal feed pellets to feed TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND COWS.
• The volume of CO2 produced by the fermentation process each week is sufficient to carbonate 455,000,000 cans of beer.
• Finally: At full production the distillation columns can produce approximately 10 BOTTLES OF WHISKY PER SECOND!