Located in the Orkneys, what is Britain's most northerly working whisky distillery?
Scapa distillery in first fill American oak casks. Scapa distillery Scapa distillery is a Scotch whisky distillery on The Mainland of Orkney, Scotland on the shore of Scapa Flow near the town of Kirkwall. Scapa is the second most northern whisky distillery in Scotland, half a mile south of the Highland Park Distillery. The distillery has one wash still and one spirit still producing a single malt whisky. It produces an especially honey flavoured whisky, and less peaty than most Island Whiskies. This is because, though the water at the source is peaty, it gets transported to the distillery through pipelines to
Blackwood distillery open soon after but by 2015 that had not happened. The Shetland Distillery Company, which produces the Shetland Reel Gin range is the most northerly distillery in the United Kingdom. The company's first products went on sale in October 2003: Blackwood distillery Blackwood distillery was a Scottish distiller founded in July 2002 with the aim of building Shetland's first Scotch whisky distillery run by Caroline Whitfield. Products included Muckle Flugga whisky, Jago’s cream liqueur and Blackwoods gin and vodka. In May 2008, the company went into administration, but a new company, Catfirth Ltd, was established to continue the whisky business