Highland · Banffshire coast
Banff
Est. 1863 · Banff
Lost
The unluckiest distillery: fire, a German bomb and an exploding still.
Owner
Closed (Diageo; demolished)
Water
Fiddich springs
Region
Highland, Banffshire coast
Position
57.667°N 2.559°W
Burned in 1877, bombed by a Junkers in 1941 so that casks ran into the fields and the cattle got drunk, and lost a still to an explosion in 1959. Closed 1983, demolished 1991.
What survives
- Banff (Rare Malts and independent bottlings)