There is something to be said for considering the size of the distillery that makes your favorite mainstream Scotch or bourbon. Most craft whiskey makers aside, a good number of whiskey brands are created on the grounds of rather large facilities which are almost impossible to see from the vantage of the visitor’s center.
With the advent of drone technology, it is now possible to easily film the scope of some of these operations in a way which makes for some very entertaining video. Below you’ll find eight such (mostly) short videos, some of American distilleries and others of Scottish ones. Some are notably scenic, while others are more just about seeing how such distilleries just eat up the landscape around them.