Rebuilding Diary

The Chimney

The chimney at Annandale is one of the distillery's most striking features. On first visiting the site in July 2006, we found it standing lean, tall...

Visit to Forsyth's of Rothes

On Tuesday, 4 September 2012, a group from Annandale Distillery (Malcolm Rennie, David Thomson, Teresa Church and Eva Church) visited Forsyth's of Rothes...

Update on the Mash House

We always knew that the Mash House was going to be problematic because it was so obviously dilapidated. The roof was completely rotten and the very high...

Update on the Kiln

Our diary entry of 31 March 2012 provided a brief introduction to Annandale Distillery's Charles Doig-designed Malt Kiln. Although the superstructure...

Update - the Mash House and Still House

The previous update described our progress in renovating the Bonded Warehouses, the Maltings and the Kiln. The original Mash House and the building that...

Update - the Warehouses, Maltings and Kiln

A lot has happened in the past two months so here's an update on three of our five buildings (the Bonded Warehouses, Maltings and Kiln). We'll report...

Pynford beam

The string of buildings that form the Maltings, Kiln and Mash House at Annandale Distillery are built on split levels with the west elevations at the higher...

Filming in the rain

As the restoration work at Annandale Distillery progresses, we are determined to capture as much as possible in photographs and video. On 19 December 2011,...

Winter has finally arrived at Annandale

Winter has finally arrived at Annandale. Although there wasn't any snow at the distillery today, many of the roads leading to and from the Annan area...

A lot has happened since we've been away. Teresa and I have just returned from a business trip to the Far East. We've been keeping up with...