The Famous Grouse Experience - Crieff

We were staying in Perth and asked the B&B owner what distilleries we could go to that were close and he recommended the Famous Grouse Experience at the Glenturret Distillery. It was a weekday and when we arrived late morning we ended up being the only people there. Our tour guide was still very gracious in giving us a private tour! He was in his early 20s and some of the scripted things he had to say he begrudgingly did which was hilarious. I think the fact that he acknowledged some of the cheesiness of the tour just made it better. Besides the informative private tour, the grounds were nice and well-kept and the location was scenic. It was also fun to take pictures with the very large bottle of the Famous Grouse, which apparently Glenturret won a Guinness World Record for producing the world's largest bottle of whiskey. I am not a huge whiskey person but being that I live in the United States our whiskey is much different than this type of malt whiskey produced here. Only about an hour from where I live is where Jack Daniels is made so I only have that perspective and have never heard about Scottish whiskey until my visit. We enjoyed our visit and it was worth the 40 minute detour from Perth to come visit. I'm not sure I'd recommend driving more than that to come here if it's out of your way of travels. Overall a good experience!

We had an amazing tour with Don as our tour guide. Very informative tour that was filled with knowledge and laughter. The whiskey tasting was great too. Highly recommend this tour when in the area.

Great wee distillery and a really informative, entertaining tour. Particularly enjoyed the high level of focus given on the distillery cats: Glen and Turret their predecessor, super-mouser Towser . Standard tasting at the end, with some good tips on how to taste a whisky takeaway pots for the drivers! .

This is the third (and final) distillery we're going on during our week in Scotland. The tour was incredibly corporate with very little room for the guide to stray from her talking points. The group size was large which played into this. For ten pounds we had an hour long tour through the facilities (a lot of which wasn't currently being used which differed from our last two distilleries). We were given a lot of misinformation delivered as fact (high alcohol content causing blindness, and misinformation on removing toxins, or that if you don't turn your cell phone off the battery will make the distillery explode). At the end we received two samples with some absurd whiskey tasting tips. The overall tour was similar to our tour at Glengassagh just with a lot less personalization and a lot more rote memorization from the guide. We wouldn't go on this tour again and will definitely stick to smaller operations in the future (plug for Knockdhu here).

A great afternoon out. The guide was knowledgeable and personable and I learnt a great deal about the process of whisky making. All details were thought about and the preparation for a Covid-secure site was thorough and made us feel safe.