Situated in the heart of Aberdeen city centre, The Illicit Still
is famed for its warm and friendly atmosphere.
A comprehensive and diverse food menu is available until 9pm everyday
and is sure to more than satisfy the most discerning palate. Add
to this our breakfast and late night snack menus and it's easy to
understand why The Illicit Still is arguably Aberdeen’s premier
bar/food venue.
The Publican - 2002
Pub Food Awards - Bar Food Pub Of The Year
Highly Commended |
The giant screen and numerous widescreen TVs make The Illicit Still
the ideal bar for watching any live sport including rugby or football.
The Award Winning Illicit Still – worth discovering!
There is a link drawn between Greenock and Dundee where above exists
awesome mountains, silent Lochs and empty glens, but it was not
always so.
To avoid payment of the ‘malt tax’ imposed in 1713
by an English parliament, Highlanders took to remote glens and hillsides,
to where whisky could be made undetected. Their equipment was rudimentary
and easy to dismantle to aid a quick escape from pursuing excisemen
or ‘gaugers’. It was reported in 1798 that the ‘industry
was in a thousand hands’ and by 1823 there were 14,000 official
discoveries of illicit stills. A mere fraction of those that escaped
the ‘gauger’.
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