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Benromach Distillery 

Invererne Road, Forres, Moray, IV36 3EB 
01309 675968 
www.benromach.com/ 
Benromach is named after the Romach Hill, which is actually behind Dallas Dhu distillery. Whisky Cast suggests Benromach means "shaggy mountain"
Page updated 11/02/2018
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Website has details of whiskies and tours, you can sign up for friends of Benromach to get newsletters from the Distillery. A little on the history of the distillery, more on crafting whisky.

Visiting

Visitor centre - opening hours: Monday to Friday all year round, plus Saturdays (May - September) and Sundays (June - August). Tours cost £6, more in depth tours and tutored tasting are also available. These need to be booked and depend on sufficient numbers. Photography not allowed in production areas of distillery.
My visit to Benromach Distillery in November 2011 - not a busy time of year for them, so a 1:1 tour and a few good samples afterwards - good value for the basic tour! Some great pictures of the exterior on a beautiful winter's day. Another 1:1 tour on my visit in November 2012 - on foot due to theft of bike the previous night! Hat trick of November visits in 2013. Capacity at the distillery was increased to 750,000 litres in 2014.
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Benromach Distillery with Bike, November 2011

Vital Stats

Status Active 
Built 1898 (reopened 1998)
Stills 2 - 1 wash 1 spirirt
Capacity 750,000 litres   
Owner Gordon & MacPhail
Water Source  Chapelton springs
Washbacks Wood (Larch)
Mash
1st water 
2nd water  
3rd water 
Fermentation  
Lyne Arms  30° ascending
Wash stills  6,377 litres
Spirit stills   5,363 litres
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Benromach has a distinctive tall red chimney visible for miles around. The distillery had been closed for 9 years when Gordon & MacPhail took the plunge into distillery ownership, buying it from Diageo predecessors UDV, and it took a further 6 years to get it back into production.

Malt Madness  Undiscovered Scotland   Wikipedia   WhiskyMerchants.co.uk  scotchwhisky.com
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July 2005

Getting There

Click the map's Google logo to go to Google Maps - for Directions, Street View etc. 
Open Cycle Map   Bing Map    Dallas Dhu    Glenburgie    Roseisle    Glenburgie 
Distilleries  Speyside Distilleries  Coastal/Findhorn
Benromach Distillery is just off the A96 Forres by-pass across the new bridge over the railway, a few hundred yards from  Forres Station (FOR). Live Train Times.
​The station plan has yet to be updated for the new station.
National Cycle Route 1 skirts two sides of the Distillery. The Burn of Mosset is just across the road, and the Findhorn flows past less than a mile from the distillery.

Range

Benromach have an extensive range of whiskies starting with Classic range of 10yo (43%), 15yo (43%) and 10yo at 100° proof. They also do a number of wood finishes (45%), an Organic whisky (43%); Peat Smoke (46%) and an Origins range, which features whiskies made from a speciifc type of barley or wholly matured in Port Pipes. They released a triple distilled bottling (50%) in 2017. There are regular releases of older whisky too, currently a 35yo (43%) and a couple of single casks. Independent bottlings rare.
RMW    TWE    MoM

Cycling

Nearest Bike shops 
Stuarts Cycles & Sports Goods  32 High Street    01309 672432
The Bike Bothy  105 High Street    01309 671745
Bikespokes  Mobile Repairs   07801 365710 
Van based mobile servicing & repairs - normally 25 miles radius from Forres, but will travel further for an extra charge
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Photos on this page were taken by me. Click on photo to enlarge. Full size versions of all my photos of Benromach Distillery are available on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/martynjenkins/sets/72157628366204583/  
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