Qualla: Brora Distillery https://qualla.com/brora-distillery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Brora Distillery https://qualla.com/brora-distillery Brora Distillery: Introduction https://qualla.com/brora-distillery/ In May 2021, after thirty-eight years of silence, the first new cask of spirit was filled at Brora. The pot stills had been cold since 1983. The empty distillery had stood beside the warehouse where its own legend was slowly aging - bottles released by Diageo at prices that climbed past five figures, fans waiting through a generation for a return that everyone had stopped expecting. Brora is one of the most romantic resurrections in modern whisky.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/4/brora-distillery-wp/gfm4-brora-distillery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Brora Distillery: Built by a Duke https://qualla.com/brora-distillery/ The Brora distillery was built in 1819 by the Marquess of Stafford - the future first Duke of Sutherland, the same family whose monument crowns Ben Bhraggie above Golspie. He named it Clynelish. It produced Highland single malt for decades through a succession of owners. George L...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/4/brora-distillery-wp/gfm4-brora-distillery-built-by-a-duke.mp3 0:06 2 full Brora Distillery: The Name Switch of 1968 https://qualla.com/brora-distillery/ In 1967 the Distillers Company built a brand-new and larger Clynelish distillery just next door to the old one. When the new distillery opened in 1968, the original Clynelish was renamed Brora and the new building took over the Clynelish name. The two distilleries ran side by sid...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/4/brora-distillery-wp/gfm4-brora-distillery-the-name-switch-of-1968.mp3 0:06 3 full Brora Distillery: The Peated Years https://qualla.com/brora-distillery/ Between May 1969 and July 1973, Brora produced a heavily peated whisky - much heavier than its usual lightly-peated Highland style. The reason was prosaic: a drought on Islay had cut supplies of peated spirit available to blenders, particularly Johnnie Walker. Brora was conscript...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/4/brora-distillery-wp/gfm4-brora-distillery-the-peated-years.mp3 0:06 4 full Brora Distillery: Closed and Mythologised https://qualla.com/brora-distillery/ Brora was closed in 1983 during a broad rationalisation across the Scotch whisky industry. The casks went into warehouse, and as the years passed the closed bottlings drifted upward in price and reputation. In 2014 Diageo released a 1972 Brora 40-year-old at a retail price of £7,...

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