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Crieff

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    • Day 5

      Älteste Destillerie Schottlands

      June 14, 2022 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

      The Glenturret Destillerie
      Wir haben den Hinweis auf der Autobahn entdeckt und uns spontan entschlossen ihm zu folgen. Und der Weg hat sich gelohnt. Leckerer Whisky, schönes kleines Café und viele schöne Produkte Made in Scotland. Da konnten wir einfach nicht nein sagen.Read more

    • Day 6

      The Glenturret Distillery

      August 11, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

      By hand & heart. Crafted at Scotland's Oldest Working Distillery since 1763 entirely by hand in exclusive small batches, The Glenturret Single Malt is defined by its outstanding quality and exquisite taste.

      It was very interesting learning about how whiskey is made. The whiskey has to be casked for a minimum of 3 years before it can be called Scotch Whiskey.

      Towser, a female long-haired tortoiseshell cat, the resident feline pest control expert at Glenturret from 1963 till 1987, was an officially recognised record breaker. Her record-breaking victim count was estimated as 28,899 mice, which were laid out on the Still House floor each morning to be inspected by the stillman. The auditors for the Guinness Book of Records observed Towser's prowess over a number of days, and her total kill count was estimated statistically. She was commemorated by a bronze statue at the visitor's centre at Glenturret and her story was featured on BBC Television's Blue Peter. Her paw prints also decorate the label on a bottle of Fairlie's light Highland Liqueur. Her immediate successors were Dylan and Brooke, who were chosen for their friendliness and photogenic looks rather than for their mousing skills. The distillery currently "employs" Glen, an orange tabby, and Turret, a gray tabby for mousing duties.

      I met one of the distilleries cats 'Turret', first picture up on the counter, he was more interested in the treat draw.
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    • Day 6

      The Famous Grouse Whisky Destillery

      May 23, 2003 in Scotland ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C

      På en tilfældig tur kom vi også forbi et whisky destilleri og her var vi naturligvis nødt til at holde ind. Det blev til en spændende rundvisning og en spændende fortælling om denne skønne smag´s historie. Det hele blev afsluttet med nogle gode smagsprøver, yes :-)Read more

    • Day 51

      To Fort William day 51 Tue 12 Jun 2018

      June 12, 2018 in Scotland

      Raining at 6.30am, light drizzle at 8.45. Early departure about 9.30am from Invernente bed and breakfast Callander Stirling Scotland. After a while passed by a police car with lights and siren on, then about 10am joined a traffic queue. More police cars and an ambulance with lights and sirens as well as a small plane and helicopter. At about 10.30am a man in a kilt was walking back from the incident and advised there would be a two hour wait before the road would reopen. So we detoured halfway across Scotland in order to reach Fort William. (The New Zealand road closure again). Yvonne did a magnificent job of finding a route by map alone as the GPS was just telling us to turn around for fifty miles. Abandoned my plan to visit Glen Coe and instead visited the Highland Chocolatier. Savoury muffin and chocolate cake with hot chocolate for lunch. (Sugar overload...). The on to Dewar’s Aberfeldy for a whiskey distillery tour. Learnt that barley with a small amount of yeast is fermented to produce a basic beer which is then distilled to produce whiskey. Temperature is used in the distilling process to determine which distilled alcohol is retained and which is recycled back to the first still again. Flavour is transferred from the amount of smoke when the grain is dried when the basic beer is made and from various casks used to store the whisky over many years. Yvonne purchased a 12 year old scotch. As we approached Fort William there was the odd patch of snow on the hillsides. Had to telephone the Ben Nevis Guesthouse as we were unable to find it from the information on the internet. Dinner at a restaurant down the road from the Guesthouse.Read more

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    Crieff, Крийф, Craoibh, 크리프, Крифф, Кріфф

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