John and Hugh Stevenson, who had learned the craft from their late father, obtained employment building and repairing boats at the city’s boatyard after relocating to the small port city of Oban (in northwest Scotland) with their widowed mother. The brothers quit their occupations building boats and established a brewery in the city in the 1790s. They transformed their brewery into one of Scotland’s oldest and most esteemed distilleries, Oban Distillery, in 1794.

The Stevenson family owned Oban Distillery for almost a hundred years. However, J. Walter Higgin bought the distillery in 1883 and started making improvements. To ensure that the distillery could continue to meet the unrelenting demand for its whisky, Higgin made piecemeal renovations to the structure and equipment. After Higgin’s renovation, Oban Distillery is essentially unchanged today, more than a century later.

The most widely consumed whisky worldwide, Scotch is regarded as the best of all of them! Each of Scotland’s five whiskey regions—six if you include the unofficially recognized Islands—produces spirits with special qualities and distinctive flavors. (The type of scotch is determined by the type of grain used.)

Grain whisky employs other grains, such as corn or wheat, while malt whisky is manufactured from malted barley. A single distillery producing a single malt whisky produces an exceptional product known as a single malt, but most whiskies are blended from various distilleries, hence the term blended Oban whiskey 14 scotch.

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