Scotch distillery mapactive, closed, demolished and planned

How we did it

Distilleries. Every Scottish row in our distillery records (the knowledge graph behind Whiskipedia and this site), 325 in all. Active includes sites that closed and have since been revived, such as Brora and Port Ellen. Mothballed means the latest recorded period is mothballed and the site still stands. Closed covers closed and dismantled sites; demolished means the site no longer stands. Planned sites are announced or being built and not yet producing. Closure years are the start of the last open-ended status period. The year control shows the distilleries with an active period in the chosen year, from the same records as the distilleries operating each year chart; five closed sites with no recorded closure year are left out of past years.

Locations. Coordinates come from the same records. 90 sites are placed at the nearest town or village or within their region rather than at the site, and are faded on the map and marked ≈ in the table. Two had a longitude recorded without its minus sign (Gartbreck and Malt Mill on Islay); we plot them west of Greenwich and mark them approximate. Five are left off the map but stay in the table: Lagg and Mill of Banff have no coordinates, and Knockdhu, Benachie and Speyside Distillery have coordinates that fall outside Scotland or outside their region, so we would rather leave them off than put them in the wrong place. Most of Scotland’s active grain distilleries are held in a separate grain list without coordinates, so they are listed under the table rather than plotted.

The map. The outline is Natural Earth’s 1:10m coastline (public domain), clipped to Scotland, projected (equirectangular, with longitude scaled for latitude 57.5°N) and simplified when the site is built. There is no map service or tracking: the map is a single drawing in the page.

Bottles. “Bottles in stock” counts the bottles we list for that distillery with at least one in-stock offer at the UK retailers we check, from the catalogue of 14 October 2026. A distillery without a page on this site has no bottles tagged to it yet. Owner names are as of 14 August 2026, the last owner check in our records.

Download the data

• Every Scottish distillery with status, location and bottle counts (CSV)

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Sources

• Uisge Beatha distillery records (knowledge graph: distilleries, status periods, closures)
• Coastline: Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data at naturalearthdata.com
• Whiskipedia: distillery histories

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