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One of my favourite explores despite it's small size (we could only get in to one of the buildings). Visited with Revelation_Space back in July 2010. This place was demolished earlier this year 
and I believe they are building a new distillery on the site.
"Just as the existing distilleries along the Spey helped justify the building of a railway, the building of a railway in turn helped justify the development of more distilleries. in 1897 land on the north bank of the river next to the existing Carron Station was used to build the ambitious Imperial Distillery, which also came complete with its own railway sidings.
Imperial was expanded in 1965, but closed twenty years later in 1985. It then reopened in 1989, before being mothballed in 1998. Last time we visited, in mid-2005, the distillery had signs suggesting it was for sale as a development site. Imperial's problems were always its very large stills, meaning that it could not be operated very flexibly. It could either produce in large quantities or not at all: and sadly, it looks as though in future it will not be producing at all."
Still had that lovely distillery smell in the building!
Once again I forgot to take an external shot of the building.
Couldnt resist checking out the Stills first.
Fat Bottomed
Under the stills had some nice lighting and some lovely Valve Handles
Moving on to the other part of the building, came across this thing not sure what it was but i liked it.
And some controls for the Mash Tun
and inside the Mash Tun itself, I had a fear of this turning on whilst being in it!
There wasn't much else to see so here's a picture of some playing cards and dead bats in a sink in the Kitchen.
and I believe they are building a new distillery on the site."Just as the existing distilleries along the Spey helped justify the building of a railway, the building of a railway in turn helped justify the development of more distilleries. in 1897 land on the north bank of the river next to the existing Carron Station was used to build the ambitious Imperial Distillery, which also came complete with its own railway sidings.
Imperial was expanded in 1965, but closed twenty years later in 1985. It then reopened in 1989, before being mothballed in 1998. Last time we visited, in mid-2005, the distillery had signs suggesting it was for sale as a development site. Imperial's problems were always its very large stills, meaning that it could not be operated very flexibly. It could either produce in large quantities or not at all: and sadly, it looks as though in future it will not be producing at all."
Still had that lovely distillery smell in the building!
Once again I forgot to take an external shot of the building.
Couldnt resist checking out the Stills first.
Fat Bottomed
Under the stills had some nice lighting and some lovely Valve Handles
Moving on to the other part of the building, came across this thing not sure what it was but i liked it.
And some controls for the Mash Tun
and inside the Mash Tun itself, I had a fear of this turning on whilst being in it!
There wasn't much else to see so here's a picture of some playing cards and dead bats in a sink in the Kitchen.
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