Inverleven Scotch Whisky

Inverleven Whisky Distillery Information

Built in 1938 within the Dumbarton grain distillery

Location Lowlands region Western district, Dumbarton

Water source Loch Lomond

Mothballed in 1991

Inverleven Whisky Distilling Equipment

Operated in 2 still houses 1 with 2 pot stills the second had a Lomond pattern still.

Inverleven Distillery History

The Inverleven is a distillery within a distillery constructed in 1938 within the Dumbarton Grain Distillery by Hiram Walker & Sons Ltd and operated under license by George Ballantine & Son Ltd

The malt whisky is classified as a Lowlander whisky despite the fact that the distillery straddles the old political Highland line This line was introduced to define Lowland and Highland whiskies for tax and production regulations.

The large distillery complex in Dumbarton is licensed to George Ballantine & Son Ltd. and still produces grain whisky for the Ballantine's blend to this day.

Situated next to the column still buildings that are used for the production of grain whisky, there were two pot still houses that produced malt whisky. One with a conventional pair of pot still set up producing Inverleven and in the other a Lomond still set up with rectifiers that was installed in 1959 that produced the 'Lomond' malt.

Hiram Walker installed Lomond stills at Glenburgie producing Glencraign. At Miltonduff producing Mosstowie and at Scapa where the Lomand still was used as a wash still.

Both malt still houses were closed in 1991 and mothballed in 1992.

The malt whisky produced was an important component of Ballantine’s blends.

Inverleven Distillery Bottlings 

No official Bottlings

Inverleven single malt has been bottled by independents

However it is extremely rare.

Inverleven Whisky Independent Bottlings  

Cadenhead’s

Duncan Taylor Collection,

Gordon & MacPhail,

Old Malt Cask (Douglas Laing),

Peerless (Duncan Taylor),

SMWS

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