Making Macb

Think water is boring? Our flavoured water comes from an ancient long-lost source – buried for decades when a WW2 mine washed up and exploded! Enjoy one of our natural fruit flavours or our new non-flavoured bottled water. Still boring?… Didn’t think so.

History of our flavoured Scottish spring water range

1740

The earliest documentation of our ancient water can be traced back to The “Lost” Well of Tarlair, flowing from the rugged coast of Tarlair Beach.

Believed to have incredible health-giving properties, people travelled from all over Scotland to drink the fabled water of The Well of Tarlair.

200 Years

1940s

After centuries of fresh spring water at Tarlair, a rogue World War II sea mine broke loose, washed ashore, and detonated – its devastation taking the famous well with it.

Months of back-breaking labour followed, but with nothing more than picks and shovels to recover the well, it seemed lost forever.

1940

1996

The search was abandoned for over 50 years, until a Hydro-Geological survey made the incredible rediscovery – tracing the original source of the well to MacDuff.

Guided by the survey, we drilled deep below MacDuff, creating a 200ft well and freeing the famous Scottish water first discovered over 250 years before

1996

Today

Every drop of Macb flavoured water is still sourced from the historic spring at MacDuff, with delicious natural fruit flavours bursting out of every bottle

Who knows?! We’re always looking for big new flavours and bold ideas to make sure Macb water is never bland, never boring, and always true to its explosive history!

Timeline Year: Tomorrow, with a picture of the Macb logo and some water droplets