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InchDairnie Distillery Carbon Footprint Report 2020
Find our carbon footprint reports from 2019 and 2020 at the following links;
InchDairnie Distillery Carbon Footprint Report 2019
InchDairnie Distillery Carbon Footprint Report 2020
Sustainability is important to InchDairnie Distillery and low energy consumption was part of the original process design. Three strategies were used in developing the design;
Reduce – The process was developed to reduce at source the energy demand of the various process steps.
Reuse – Some the remaining waste energy from the distillation process is reused to provide heat for the mashing process, pre heating the still charge and to provide heating for the office.
Recycle – Some of the waste energy from the distillation process is recycled back into the stills.
In order to help in identifying opportunities to further improve our energy use and to widen the scope of our sustainability activities we, with assistance from Scottish Enterprise, commissioned an initial carbon footprint assessment in 2019 looking back at distillation year 2018.
Following some significant changes in 2019 and 2020 we commissioned a second report considering these changes. The changes being, moving our electricity supply contract to wind power from Orstead in 2019 and supplying all our pot ale and draff to the local anaerobic digestor (AD). This example of the circular economy at work allows the AD plant to supply the gas produced from its own process into the gas network where we take our gas supply from.
Sustainability has become a word that gets dropped into almost any mention of a brand and often in a meaningless fashion. We believe that sustainability needs to be more than words, it needs to be measured. What is measured gets managed.
Carbon footprint measurement is a relatively new process and several different approaches can be taken and several different assumptions can be made. This makes it difficult to compare one product with another or to compare similar products from different suppliers.
If the whisky industry is to make a significant contribution to achieving net zero carbon it needs to measure its performance in a meaningful and consistent manner. Shared carbon footprint performance can be a powerful tool.
By publishing our Carbon Footprint calculation in full, we aim to open the debate on how carbon footprints for the whisky industry should be calculated, leading to a consistent approach.
We welcome comments on our report through our dedicated email address, carbonfootprint@inchdairniedistillery.com
Ian Palmer


A Sustainable Partnership with Muntons Malt
In this ever-changing landscape of sustainability, we feel we are in safe hands. Much of our carbon footprint is in our cereals, so working directly with both Munton’s and our local Fife farmer at Balgonie Estate, we are working together to reduce this.


Our Longstanding Partnership with Muntons Malt
Our partnership with Muntons has been crucial to our success as a Fife grown, Fife distilled and Fife matured distillery. The relationship we have developed with Balgonie Estates as a result of this, is essential to the ongoing production of our RyeLaw whisky.


InchDairnie Doubles Capacity with Significant Distillery Expansion
As we approach our 10th anniversary next year, we are doubling our production capacity to 4 million litres per year — ushering in a new era of innovation to meet the rising demand for our bold, flavour-led whiskies.


InchDairnie features on BBC Landward
InchDairnie had the pleasure of hosting BBC landward at the distillery for a feature in the latest season of BBC Scotland’s Landward.


InchDairnie Leads LeBlanq’s Scotland Joyriding Weekend
September rolled around and it was soon time to take the lead for our main weekend with LeBlanq as their luxury whisky partner for the 2023/24 and this time we were in the heart of Perthshire at the beautiful Dunalistar Hotel Suites, on the banks of Loch Rannoch.


RyeLaw Awarded Highly Commended from IWSC
We are delighted to be awarded Highly Commended by the IWSC in the Design Award category.


Rob takes RyeLaw on a journey through the Norwegian Fjords, with LeBlanq
Last week, our Brand Ambassador Rob, joined LeBlanq for another unforgettable weekend in Norway.


Michelin-Star Chef Lorna McNee Visits InchDairnie
To get some inspiration for her dishes, Lorna visited the distillery in Fife to learn about our innovative process and to get a flavour of our precision distilled malted rye Scotch whisky.


RyeLaw Wins Gold
RyeLaw Fife Single Grain Scotch Whisky is awarded Gold by the Beverage Testing Institute.


RyeLaw Whisky Heads to Champagne with LeBlanq
At the end of June, our Chairman Ian and Brand Ambassador Rob attended LeBlanq’s first Joyride weekend of the year in Champagne, with Michelin-Star Chef Anthony Demetre, and cycling legends Greg Lemond and Nico Roche.