Inchfad

Inchfad is made at Loch Lomond – probably Scotland’s most versatile distillery in terms of the number of different styles of whisky produced for different purposes on one site. The name Inchfad comes from one of the islands in the Loch which previously housed a distillery of the same name.

The Loch Lomond distillery was built by Littlemill Distillery Company Ltd, a joint venture part-owned by the American distillers Barton Brands Ltd, in 1965 on the site of a former calico dyeworks and Britain’s oldest car factory, the Argyll Motor Company. Barton took over complete ownership a few years later in 1971, but the distillery fell on hard times during the 1980s and was forced to close in 1984. Production resumed in 1987 under the new ownership of the Glen Catrine Bonded Warehouse company, an independent bottler seeking to control supplies of malt whisky for their own-label blends.