Sustainability

Sustainable Since Day One

Arbikie Distillery is a genuine field to bottle operation, with every stage happening on-site - so the evocative taste of our unique environment survives every step from soil to spirit.

We grow our own crops. We're expanding our use of solar energy. Where possible, our primary waste products go back into the land - recycled as cattle feed or natural fertiliser. And because distilling happens right where the grain is grown, the whole process runs on negligible food miles, start to finish.

Homegrown Ingredients

Great whisky starts long before the still. At Arbikie, it starts in the soil.

Since 2014 we’ve farmed regeneratively, putting the long-term health of our land first. We rotate our crops, sow cover crops to protect and feed the soil, and grow nitrogen-fixing legumes like peas to put fertility back into the ground naturally. It means we use as little fertiliser as possible, and where we can, none at all.

We’ve also planted thousands of hedges and oak trees across the estate. Oak takes at least 50 years to mature, but Arbikie is a long-term project: a family distillery built to last. In time, this oak will give us our own new oak casks for maturing Arbikie whisky, ready for the next generation when they take the helm.

From soil to cask, it’s a slow, patient way of making whisky, and the only one we know.

Sustainable Energy & Green Hydrogen

Steam is the invisible engine behind every whisky ever made - and for most distilleries, it still comes from burning fossil fuels. We wanted to break that link entirely.

With our new green hydrogen electrolyzer, Arbikie is set to become the world's first climate-positive distillery. The technology lets us generate the steam distilling depends on with zero carbon emissions at the point of combustion - without changing a single thing about how the spirit itself is made. Same whisky, same process, radically different footprint.

B Corp Certified

We are aiming to become the world's most sustainable distillery. Sustainable. Transparent. Authentic.

We exist to be champions of authenticity and sustainability. To tell the world how and why our ancient field to bottle craft is superior. Our vision is for discerning drinkers to recognise Single Estate field to bottle Scotch whisky as the most authentic Single Malt.

We're on a mission to become the leader in a newly defined spirits category of Single Estate sustainable, traceable, field to bottle authenticity.

Public Purpose Statement, Annual Lobbying Transparency Report, Responsible Lobbying Policy, Climate Action Plan, Human Rights Policy, Grievance Form.