Lagg Distillery is home to LAGG Single Malt, a peated Single Malt with a fresh island character. Lagg Distillery is owned and operated by the accomplished team at Isle of Arran Distillers. They have been producing the unpeated Arran Single Malt at their Lochranza Distillery on the Isle of Arran since 1995. In 2017, the Company began the construction of their second distillery on the island – Lagg Distillery – and distilled its first peated spirit on 19th March 2019. Their Limited Edition Inaugural Batch Releases of LAGG Single Malt were released in autumn 2022, and the core range expressions, LAGG Single Malt Kilmory and Corriecravie, joined the range in summer 2023.

In the southern part of the Isle of Arran, the history of whisky production goes back generations. During the years of high taxation, the hills and glens of Arran provided ideal cover for illicit distillers to produce ‘uisge beatha’ away from the watchful eyes of the Customs men. The ‘Arran Water’ reputation quickly spread to the mainland, where it was in high demand and regarded as amongst the best in Scotland. Smuggling was rife in the waters around Arran; however, following the Excise Act of 1823, which reduced taxes and encouraged the legal production of whisky, illicit distillation began to fade away, and the modern whisky industry emerged. The legal distillers on Arran found they could not compete with the better-organised distilleries on the mainland and in 1836 the island’s last licensed distillery of that era, at Torrylin near Lagg, closed. With the opening of Lochranza Distillery in 1995, Isle of Arran Distillers marked the first legal distillery on the island after more than 150 years. With Lagg Distillery, they are following the rich island’s history of whisky-making very much up close in the area where the “Arran Water” was produced and smuggled for survival hundreds of years ago.