Jura 
The island of Jura has two ferry services, a passenger service from Craighouse to Tayvallich that runs only in the summer and not on Tuesdays, and an all-year vehicle service between Feolin and Port Askaig. The vehicle ferry shuttles back and forth and no booking is required. This is the service that transports all goods to and from the distillery.
The standard production tour explained about the history of the distillery and its development and expansion. After a major refurbishment in 1979 Jura has one large mash tun, six 48,300 litre stainless steel washbacks, two wash stills, two spirit stills and produces 2,300,000ℓ of whisky per year. Water for the distillery comes from a source three miles away. The stills are the second tallest in Scotland, only Glenmorangie having ones that are taller. Its malted unpeated barley comes from Bairds of Arbroath and the peated barley, which is used to produce spirit for just four weeks a year as a 10% component in its "unpeated" whiskies, comes from Aberdeen. The distillery has a delivery of barley every day but has a week’s worth of stock to keep it working in the event of a disruption to ferry services. 140 tons of draff is produced each week and this is sent to Islay as animal food.
There are four mashes a day with the process requiring a first water 20000ℓ at 65° then a second water of 8000ℓ at 75° with the resulting wort sent to the washbacks. A third water of 16000ℓ at 85° completes the process but the resulting wort is so low in sugars that it does not enter the washbacks but it retained and used as the source for the first water of the next batch. Jura uses a sixty hour fermentation to allow flavours to develop. The first distillation takes about seven hours and produces low wines at about 25%. The spirit stills produce 70% new make spirit that is reduced to 63.5% before being put into casks for maturation. This reduces the amount of evaporation during the first couple of years. 30,000 casks are stored on Jura, any excess being sent back to the mainland. Casks are sent to Invergordon for bottling.
Daily Distillery Tour
Tasting was of the Jura Sevenwood.
Purchases
None on this occasion.