The Banff distillery was located two kilometres west of the village of the same name. Whisky was distilled in the hinterland of the old Banff seaport at the beginning of the 18th century – illegally, of course. The Banff distillery, named after the nearby town, has an extremely eventful history. In 1824 James McKilligan founded under the name Mill of Banff the first distillery near this small town in the northeast of Speyside. In 1863 the then owner built a new, larger distillery in Inverboyndie, about 3 km west of the small town of Banff. It first got the name “Inverboyndie Distillery” but was soon renamed “Banff”. A catastrophe rarely comes alone – this phrase certainly applies to the distillery Banff, from the bankruptcy over big fire and bombing by the Germans in World War 2 everything was there.

The whisky is fruity in style, vanilla, peat smoke, sweetish.