It’s simple to Bag a distillery in Scotland, head for Speyside and start ticking, or get a bit more adventurous and do the Inner Isles, but for the real enthusiasts and the true adventurer there is Abhainn Dearg!
We are the most Westerly of the Scottish distilleries and can be found in Uig, on the west coast of the Hebridean Isle of Lewis. Abhainn Dearg, (pronounced Abeen Jarræk) or Red River Distillery is a very new distillery in an ancient landscape.
The spirit we produce today is made in a traditional way, hands on, copper and wood, the philosophy and history of our distilling goes back hundreds of years. At Abhainn Dearg that age old experience has been garnered for the knowledge of distilling fine whisky never left our shores, it’s just taken till now to re-claim our heritage and produce a true Outer Hebridean Whisky for the rest of the world to enjoy.
The road to Abhainn Dearg Distillery
Our Stills are different to anything else you will see at a Mainland distillery and are based on the old illicit stills that were found the length and breadth of the Outer Hebrides, in fact we still have one of the old time illicit stills up and running at the distillery.
For serious Bagging visiting Abhainn Dearg can score you three in one day and four if you took a detour!
Bag The Isle of Lewis, Abhainn Dearg Distillery, Uig Sands and on route call in to Great Bernera, cross the bridge over the Atlantic and you have yourself another Hebridean Island
Judith Macdonald