Bid to build Scotland’s first community-owned distillery

11 May 2016

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Scotland’s first community-owned craft whisky distillery could be created near Dingwall in Ross-shire.

GlenWyvis Distillery Community Benefit Society is working with Community Shares Scotland to raise more than £1.5 million in investment.

So far the effort has received more than £517,000 in pledges to take shares in the venture.

The distillery would be built on farmland and be fully community-owned and powered by renewable energy.

Construction could start in June this year with the first run of whisky planned for Burns Night on 25 January 2017.