Royal Lochnagar Distillery one of the jewels in the Royal Deeside crown is situated beside her Majesty the Queen’s Scottish Home, Balmoral Castle at Crathie half way between the villages of Ballater and Braemar, which is home to the world famous Highland Gathering and Games.

The distillery takes its name from the mountain, Lochnagar, which is a Munro, a mountain over 3000ft high. The Royal name was bestowed upon the distillery following a visit by Queen Victoria on the 12th September 1848.At the end of this, the first ever, Distillery tour Queen Victoria enjoyed a dram of mature Lochnagar highland single malt scotch whisky.

Royal Lochnagar draws its pure water from the Scarnock Springs and use this water with local barley which has been malted, then ground into grist. This grist and the spring water meet in the open mashtun and a hot sugary liquid is drained off. Yeast is added and fermentation will take place, giving us a liquid called wash with a alcohol strength of 9% by volume. We then distill this wash in our small gleaming copper pot stills giving us the spirit we are now going to fill on site into our oak casks and allow to mature for at least 12 full years giving us our lovely golden delicious Highland Single Malt Whisky.