The Braes of Glenlivet Distillery was built in 1973 by the Chivas Brothers group, then a subsidiary of Seagram, on an isolated and hard-to-reach site once favoured by illicit distillers. It didn’t take the name Braeval until 1994. The distillery closed in 2001, when it was acquired by Pernod Ricard, who had bought Seagram’s Scotch whisky division, and only reopened in 2008. Few bottlings from the distillery exist, even among independent bottlers.

A Braeval Batch 1 bottled by That Boutique-y Whisky Company. That Boutique-y Whisky Company is an independent bottler launched in 2012 by the Atom group in Kent, England. The labels on its bottles often make reference to stories and figures from the world of whisky, staged in comical situations. Two other companies, That Boutique-y Rum Company and That Boutique-y Gin Company, also bottle rum and gin. A limited edition of 210 bottles.