The Maker Edradour distillery was built around 1837, but distillation got underway as part of a farmers co-operative in a nearby barn in 1825. The formation of the co-operative was a product of the recent Excise Act which required stills to be larger in an attempt to prevent distillation at the domestic scale. By joining together local communities were able to make a larger operation work, and thereby supply themselves and others with all the whisky they could drink with plen

The Maker Ballechin is the name for the peated variant of whisky from Edradour distillery on the outskirts of Pitlochry in the Highlands....