Glen Flagler Pure Malt 1990s
75cl / 40%
£379 Out of stock
| Country | scotland |
| Region | Lowland |
| Established | 1965 |
| Owner | Inver House Distillers (brand now held by International Beverage Holdings) |
| Type | Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery (Lowland, closed) |
| Number of stills | Reported variously as 2, 4 or 6 copper pot stills (sources vary); a continuous still was added around 1969 |
| Visitor center | No |
| Status | Closed |
| Phone | n/a |
Glen Flagler Distillery was a Lowland Scotch whisky distillery located in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was founded in 1965 and was closed in 1985, with the distillery buildings demolished in 1988. Despite standing in the Lowlands, Glen Flagler produced a lightly peated malt some tasters likened to a Speyside style, and it is now remembered as one of Scotland's rarest and most collectible closed distilleries.
Glen Flagler was built in 1964–65 as part of the Moffat distillery complex on the edge of Airdrie, a large site that had previously housed a paper mill. The complex was developed by Inver House Distillers, a company founded in 1964 by the American firm Publicker Industries of Philadelphia, and it combined the large Garnheath grain distillery with malt whisky stills producing spirit under one roof: Glen Flagler and its sister brand Killyloch (a heavily peated variant was also sold as Islebrae). Because the malt spirit was distilled in the same stillhouse as Killyloch, whisky writers still debate whether Glen Flagler and Killyloch were truly separate distilleries or two brands from a single site.
Distillation began on 25 February 1965. Sources disagree on the exact still count — figures of two, four and six copper pot stills have all been cited — and production methods changed over the years, with an original wash still reportedly replaced by a continuous (Coffey-style) still around 1969. Most of Glen Flagler's output went into Inver House's blended whiskies, such as MacArthur's and Pinwinnie, with only small volumes ever bottled as single malt.
Glen Flagler's malt stillhouse closed in July 1985 amid the wider contraction of the Scotch whisky industry in the mid-1980s, and the distillery buildings were demolished in 1988. Inver House's warehousing, blending and bottling operations have continued on the same site at Airdrie, which remains company property today. Because Glen Flagler operated for only twenty years and released very few official single malt bottlings — including 5- and 8-year-old expressions in the 1970s and 80s and a 30-year-old released in 2003, alongside some independent bottlings by Signatory Vintage in the 1990s — surviving bottles are scarce and sought after by collectors, ranking among the rarer closed-distillery Scotch whiskies on the market today.
Glen Flagler distillery is located at Moffat Distillery Complex, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Glen Flagler distillery was founded in 1965.
Glen Flagler distillery is owned by Inver House Distillers (brand now held by International Beverage Holdings).
Glen Flagler distillery is from Lowland, scotland.
You can buy Glen Flagler whisky at Glenbotal.co.uk. We currently stock 1 bottle with free UK delivery on orders over £99.
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75cl / 40%
£379 Out of stock
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