Inverleven was a Lowland single malt distillery built in 1938 as part of Canadian giant Hiram Walker’s Dumbarton distillery complex just west of Glasgow on the way to Loch Lomond.

Hiram Walker were known for innovation at their distilleries, and the Dumbarton complex was no different, with Inverleven’s pot stills the first in the industry to both be fired by steam-heating instead of direct fire. In 1956, Scotland’s first Lomond still - a pot still with a column neck - was installed at Inverleven, rectifying low wines from Inverleven’s wash still. This was soon classed as a separate distillery, Lomond.

Inverleven’s Lomond still was decommissioned in 1985, with the pot stills falling silent in 1991 a few years after the distillery’s acquisition by Allied Lyons. No official bottlings of Inverleven’s Lowland single malt were done during the distillery’s active lifetime, although a couple of excellent retrospective editions of the 1973 vintage were released by Chivas Brothers in 2010-2011 as part of the Deoch an Doras range.