Dram technology

The new Bunnahabhain Distillery located in Scottish Isle of Islay is renowned for the distillation of single malt whisky. Most of the malt used for the production of whisky on Islay is done at Port Ellen Maltings according to the specific peat level requirements of various distilleries of the region. The Bunnahabhain distillery built in 1881, includes equipment that date from the early 1960s, excluding new set of two boilers that were fitted in 2007. Bunnahabhain buys its malt from the Simpsons Maltery on the mainland at Berwick. The maltery buy good quality barley and sell it to Bunnahabhain malted to its specification, which include a certain moisture and phenol content. The distillery is unique on the island because it uses water from a spring, catching it at source and it is then piping it to a holding tank and on to the distillery.