Price: £15

Clydeside distillery is easy to find, look for the clock tour as you come down the main road( this is the distillery) and has their own car park with disabled spaces just outside the distillery.

We did the 1200 tour on a Saturday; the tour had 18 people on it.

The tour starts with a video presentation in a small room with bench seating for 6. The video gives a little history of the building and docks area where the distyillery is located. The video is presented as if dockworkers are talking to you; the video succeeds in being informative without being childish or cringeworthy.

After the short video ends you get 15 minutes to walk through an area with wall displays on the history of whisky in Glasgow to read. This was, with 18 people on the tour, somewhat congested as the displays are to be read in a chronological order.

The tour then takes you through the millroom, mash room and then into the stillhouse. The tour is informative and well laid out and you get to hear all of the relevant details about the process.

However, again the 18 people was too many; not everyone could fit into the mill room when the milling process was discussed. When we moved into the room with the mash tun and wash backs, the 18 people meant many people were too far back to hear clearly, made worse as the people between us and the guide were at times talking amoung themselves. In the still house, there was only a small area where you could stand and were having to stand very closely together.

At the end of the tour we were taken to the tasting room which is located on a platform above the distillery cafe. This meant there was a lot of background noise (talking plates and cups clinking and clattering and for a while a screaming child).

The tasting wasn;t very well organised; there was not sufficient places laid out for the people on the tour.

At the end of the tour you get to sample three whiskies; a lowland, highland and Islay whisky. However, there is only one glass with the tour guide going round each time dispensing whisky to all of the 18 guests.

When doing the first tasting the guide was trying to explain the tasting process as well as sorting out extra glasses for the people who didn't have one and also sorting out containers for the drivers.

This could have been smoother if there were three glasses laid out and already filled for all of the guests before the tasting started; this is the approach most other distilleries take.

Overall, the tour is very good in terms of content and pacing, but is let down by the organisation and number of people on the tour. Limiting the attendees to 12 would have meant the organisation around the tasting would be easier, but the smaller group would mean all visitors would fit into the spaces and be able to hear the tour guide.