The name indicates the north gate of the once-walled small city of Brechin. The
distillery was built in 1820. The pioneering whisky writer Alfed Barnard, who
toured Scotland's distilleries in the 1880s recorded that this one obtained
its barley from the farmers around Brechin, its peat and water from the
Grampian mountains. The present-day whisky historian Derek Cooper reports that
the condensers were cooled in a stream that ran through the distillery. North
Port was modernised in the 1970s and closed in 1983. Its whisky can still be
found as a single malt from the independant bottlers. The whisky has also been
a component of the Glen Dew vatted malt and the Heather Dew blends.
© Michael Jackson 1994
Brechin, Angus
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