InchDairnie Distillery is the brainchild of Ian Palmer who had a vision of building a distillery, with equipment that breaks the mould, capable of reaching flavours not normally accessible. Ian designed the distillery together with the construction company Colorado Group and even engineered the Lomond Hill still (used for precision distilling RyeLaw).

With over 40 years of experience in the whisky industry Ian has been integral to the process of converting a green field site to a distillery of its time and has been key to the flavour research and development in the different whiskies engineered and distilled at InchDairnie Distillery. Ian Palmer has worked as Operations Manager at Invergordon Distillery and Group Distilling Manager for all the distilleries in Whyte & Mackay, including Dalmore, Jura, Bruichladdich, Fettercairn and Tamnavulin. Ian is also the man behind the building of Starlaw grain distillery for French group La Martiniquaise.