Cambus is a Scottish distillery founded in 1806 in Alloa in the Lowlands of Scotland. Initially equipped to produce malt, it became a grain distillery in 1836 when then owner John Moubray installed a pair of Stein patent stills. The installation of a Coffey still in 1851 further reinforced the distillery’‘s desire to produce a high-quality grain whisky. In 1877, it was one of the founding distilleries of DCL (now Diageo). It was mothballed on several occasions before permanently closing its doors in 1993.

A Cambus distilled in 1989 and bottled in 2018, matured for 29 years in a second-fill bourbon hogshead. This is a limited edition of 181 bottles for the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) was founded in Edinburgh in 1983 by a group of friends with a particular passion for whisky. The club selects casks whose bottles are then only available to members. The name of the distillery is not mentioned on the label but each distillery is given a number as the malt is bottled. The first cask selected by the SMWS, for example, was Glenfarclas, and it therefore uses the number 1. The second number refers to the number of bottlings from each distillery. The club was sold to Glenmorangie in 2004 and then to a group of investors in 2016.