Inverleven (silent)

(in-ver-LE-ven)

Also known as the Dumbarton distillery and was built relatively recently (in 1938) by the company Hiram Walker & Sons. It's classified as a Lowlander by Michael Jackson, but the Loch Lomond distillery a few miles north is a western Highlander. Next to a column still for the production of grain whisky there used to be two pot still houses that produced malt whisky - a conventional still (producing Inverleven) and a so-called 'Lomond' still (with a rectifier) that was installed in 1959 and that produced the 'Lomond' malt until 1991. Both malt distilleries on the site were closed in 1991 and mothballed in 1992.