Arbikie Highland Estate Distillery

The Arbikie Highland Estate Distillery is a genuine field to bottle operation.

Arbikie was first recorded as a distillery in 1794.

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During these times all ingredients for the pot still would be taken from the immediate surroundings. Spirit distilling was a local craft, with a truly local flavour, It is this approach that inspired our own ethos. Provenance, traceability, authenticity and creativity are at the heart of everything we do.

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The Arbikie Highland Estate Distillery is a genuine field to bottle operation. Ingredients for all our spirits are planted, sown, grown and harvested within arm’s length of our distillery.

We believe premium spirits can only be created from the highest quality ingredients and we are in the enviable position of being able to oversee impeccable standards every step of the way.

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The distillery is owned and run by the Stirling family and led by three brothers, whose childhood was spent on the state where they gained an intuitive understanding of the land, passed from father to son since 1660.

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DISTILLERY INFO

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NAME

Arbikie Distilling Ltd

ADDRESS

Inverkielor
Arbroath
Scotland
DD11 4UZ

WEBSITE

arbikie.com

DATE ESTABLISHED

2014

ANNUAL CAPACITY (l)

250,000 LPA

WATER SOURCE

Borehole

MALT SPECIFICATIONS

Unpeated, estate grown barley, wheat and rye

MALT SOURCE

Estate grown barley malted just 8 miles away from the distillery

YEAST TYPE

Dry

GRIST WEIGHT (T)

0.5

MASH TUN TYPE

Semi-lauter

WORT CLARITY

Clear

WASHBACKS (QUANTITY)

6

WASHBACKS (SIZE)

11,000L

WASHBACK TYPE

Stainless steel

FERMENTATION TIME

96+ hours

WASH STILLS (QUANTITY)

1

WASH STILLS CHARGE (L)

3000

SPIRIT STILLS (QUANTITY)

2 (one with optional rectification column)

SPIRIT STILL CHARGE (L)

2,400

CONDENSER TYPE

Shell and Tube

NEW MAKE STRENGTH

72%

FILLING STRENGTH

63.5%

WAREHOUSING

On-site – mixture of dunnage, racking and palletised