Malting Season at Benriach

Serie: Distilleries

Technique: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 40 x 40 cm

Year: 2023

Inspired by a photograph of Benriach Distillery

Benriach is one of two remaining distilleries in Speyside that distills whisky using malted barley from its own floor maltings, celebrating a tradition that began when John Duff first founded the distillery in 1898.

For most of the year they source Scottish barley malted in Speyside to make Benriach whisky, however for one month each year local Scottish barley comes to the distillery and they celebrate the ancient tradition of malting the barley by hand at the historic malting house floor. They call it “Malting Season.”