Edinburgh‘s Whisky Historical past by Iain Russell Half 1: Distilling – Edinburgh Whisky Academy Information
December thirty first, 2024
Edinburgh‘s Whisky Historical past by Iain Russell
Half 1: Distilling
Edinburgh is the political and cultural capital of Scotland, the house of the Scottish Parliament and the world-famous Edinburgh Pageant. Nevertheless it has many extra claims to fame, not least because the historic hub of the Scotch whisky commerce.
In the present day town is house to the influential commerce affiliation The Scotch Whisky Affiliation; the well-known vacationer attraction The Scotch Whisky Expertise and the flagship Johnnie Walker Princes Avenue model expertise; the proudly unbiased Scotch Malt Whisky Society and iconic whisky stockists similar to Royal Mile Whiskies and Cadenheads.
The excellence of the analysis and instructing services at Heriot-Watt College’s Worldwide Centre for Brewing and Distilling is recognised worldwide and lots of of our most gifted distillers have studied there. And whereas the long-established North British Distillery stays an Edinburgh establishment, the brand new Bonnington, Holyrood and Port of Leith distilleries have all begun making whisky and headlines within the 2020s.
However Edinburgh’s central position within the whisky commerce is nothing new – town can boast a historical past of whisky-making stretching again greater than 500 years.
