Dallas Dhu Historic Distillery
Dallas Dhu gallery
Step back in time to see and hear how whisky was made in the 1900s. Picturesque Dallas Dhu originally made malt whisky for the popular Roderick Dhu blend.
Dallas Dhu is typical of the many small distilleries built around 1900 to help quench the growing thirst for whisky, Scotland’s national drink.
Advances in technology have since transformed many distilleries and closed others, but Dallas Dhu remains a well-preserved time capsule of the distiller’s art.
Today's visitors can see remnants of the historic distilling process, from the kiln, where barley was dried over a lightly-peated fire, to the mighty mash tun, the great vat where malted barley and water were mixed to create a sugary ‘wort'.
You can count the six great washbacks where yeast fermented the sugary wort into a weak alcohol called ‘wash’ and step inside the still house, the spiritual heart of the distillery, where the ‘wash’ was transformed into fiery spirit.
Dallas Dhu is a Property in Care managed in partnership with Aceo Distillers.
