Welcome to Wolfburn Distillery!
The Scotch whisky distillery is located in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland.
It's the most northerly whisky distillery on the Scottish mainland!
The distillery has 3 stainless steel washbacks.
Fermentations at Wolfburn run for an average of 82 hours - which is quite long!
The washbacks have got plenty of headroom, so there's no need for sprinklers or anti-foam.
The 1.1 tonne semi-lauter mashtun.
11,500kg of malt, 5,000 litres of water and 5kg of yeast are processed in here!
It currently runs 8 mashes a week (up from 6).
There are two stills at Wolfburn.
One wash still and one spirit still.
The wash still has a capacity of 5,500 litres.
The boil ball spirit still has a capacity of 3,600 litres.
It's key feature is that descending lyne arm.
This site is approximately 350m from the original distillery.
Production ceased there in the 1850s.
The new Wolfburn Distillery opened in 2013.
The distillery draws its water from the Wolf Burn (stream).
This is where it gets its name.
Now we’re in warehouse 1.
All filling still takes place in Warehouse 1.
It was filled entirely by two people using a foot-operated forklift!
The oldest cask was filled on 25.01.13 - Burns Night!
Both unpeated and peated spirits are filled into these casks.
Cask types you’ll find here include ex-bourbon hogsheads, quarter casks and ex-oloroso sherry casks.
As well as the odd rum cask...
This is the third and final warehouse.
Here bottling is done on-site, by hand.
Wolfburn currently produces 4 core expressions.
Aurora, Langskip, Morven and Northland.
There’s also the very limited Kylver Series, as well as small-batch editions.
Check out our website for more details and to purchase.
That concludes our VR tour of Wolfburn Distillery!
Be sure to check out our interview with distillery manager Shane Fraser on this channel!