Talisker

Hugh and Kenneth MacAskill took the tack of Talisker House on Skye in 1825, cleared tenants from their land and in 1830 opened a distillery at Carbost, using the cleared people as workers. By 1848 the bank controlled it. Roderick Kemp and Alexander Allan bought it in 1880 and built a pier; after 1916 a group of blenders including DCL took control, and it has stayed with the companies that became Diageo. A fire stopped production from 1960 to 1962. ScotchWhisky.com reports that triple distillation ended in 1928.

Talisker stands at Carbost on Loch Harport, Isle of Skye, in the Highland region. ScotchWhisky.com describes five stills, two wash and three spirit, with worm tubs, and says the distillery has bought its malt from Glen Ord since its own maltings closed in the 1970s.