Islay, 2007/8

Photos by Harry Pulley, an early set for now. Lots more to upload when I have time to process them.

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Some swans at Laphroaig by the sea:

Laphroaig's stillroom, note the white bottle of salt (yes, sodium chloride):

The outside of the Old Kiln Shop:

The inside of the Old Kiln Shop, lots of good stuff to buy there:

Ardbeg by the sea:

Ardbeg's stillhouse (no salt that I could see LOL):

Ardbeg's spirit receiver/safe:

Ardbeg's spirit still's purifier:

Bruichladdich's mash tun:

Bruichladdich's Stillroom (still no salt):

Bruichladdich's warehouse, lots of malt maturing there!

Bruichladdich out front, having a laugh in the still period (no, the picture was not put in the scanner backward!):

Jim McEwan, Bruichladdich's master distillery manager:

The food at the Port Charlotte Hotel was absolutely wonderful. I must stay there one day:

I stayed at the Oystercatcher B&B and snapped these pictures of a real Oystercatcher and a Piping Plover at the beach at Port Ellen:

Waiting at home for me were two cases of Bunnahabhain 1997 9yo peated from a sherry butt: