Royal Lochnagar Distillery

Visitor Centre
Visitor Centre

More about Royal Lochnagar Distillery

Status Operational
Established: 1845
Owner: Diageo plc
Capacity: 500,000 litres per year
Visitor Policy: Visitors welcome throughout the year
Tel: +44 (0)1339 742 700
It is a confident man who uses his own name to market a product. “Take a peg of John Begg” went the slogan, referencing the man who created Royal Lochnagar Single Malt Scotch Whisky. An even smarter marketing move was to invite the new neighbours round for a dram – particularly shrewd as he had built his distillery next to Balmoral Castle in Deeside, and his neighbours were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. They repaid his hospitality with a Royal Warrant. ‘Lochnagar’ is not a loch but a mountain. At just 1,155 metres (3,789 feet) high it’s not much of a mountain, as mountains go, but it provides a stunning backdrop to Deeside, the home of Royal Lochnagar Single Malt Whisky in Scotland’s Highland whisky region.

Address

Ballater
AB35 5TB
Aberdeenshire, Scotland
United Kingdom

Visitors are welcome Monday to Friday between 10am-5pm and additionally, from Easter to October, on Saturdays between 10am and 5pm and on Sundays between 11am and 4pm. The last tour is an hour before closing.

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