A historic day in Ireland, and we're still standing.

The stills have arrived at Waterford distillery and we're their to record this momentous occasion.  They were originally designed and built for the Inverleven distillery in 1970.  Inverleven was a self-contained single malt whisky distillery shoe-horned in to Hiram Walkers vast Dumbarton grain distillery site.  The stills were only sporadically used (hence the good condition of the pots) so when in 2003 the site was demolished the pots were spirited away to Bruichladdich along with loads of other equipment and spare parts, including Ugly Betty, which kept Bruichladdich’s Victorian machinery

going. A decade later, having remained idle, the stills were purchased from Remy, Bruichladdich’s new owners, and shipped back to the mainland to be repaired by distilling experts Forsyths. Fitted with new bottoms and steam coils they are now ready to be used in anger at long last, when the distilling starts at Waterford in January.