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Situated in the heart of Aberdeen city centre, The Illicit Still is famed for its warm and friendly atmosphere with comfortable surroundings. After a revamp in 2011, enhancing the current surroundings, the team at The Illicit Still has introduced a new pool area, HD televisions and dark gothic bespoke seating den, creating a pub venue unlike anything else in Aberdeen!<\/p>\n
A bit of history…<\/h4>\n
The Illicit Stills in Scotland: There is a link drawn between Greenock and Dundee where above exist awesome mountains, silent Lochs and empty glens, but it was not always so\u2026<\/p>\n
To avoid payment of the \u2018malt tax\u2019 imposed in 1713 by an English parliament, Highlanders took to remote glens and hillsides, to where whisky could be made undetected.\u00a0Their equipment was rudimentary and easy to dismantle to aid a quick escape from pursuing excise men or \u2018gaugers\u2019.<\/p>\n
It was reported in 1798 that the \u2018industry was in a thousand hands\u2019 and by 1823 there were 14,000 official discoveries of illicit stills.\u00a0A mere fraction of those that escaped the \u2018gauger\u2019.<\/p>\n
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I didn’t spend much time in Aberdeen during my Scottish roadtrip but the stormy weather called for some heartwarming drams (not like I need an excuse for drinking whisky but hey, it was pouring out there!)… If you see what I mean! I then took the time (not like it was any sort of constraint… Don’t get me wrong) to visit some great dramming spots… …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[370,371,373,372,36,173,374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3868,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/3868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}