Priceless whisky of six thousand gallons to be somewhat exact was accidentally flushed down the drain this week.

The incident occurred Tuesday at a Chivas Brothers bottling plant in Dumbarton, Scotland when the workers intended to drain waste water unintentionally dumped the whisky instead.

The Chivas Brothers plant employs about 600 workers and is a major producer of whisky brands include Chivas Regal, Ballantine's and The Glenlivet.

"Instead of draining away waste water, the workers on duty somehow flushed out thousands of litres of bulk whisky," the report said.

"It was like someone turned on a tap and it just ran straight down the plughole," an insider at the plant told The Sun, describing the incident.

The insider added, "It happened on a night-shift washout-that's when the equipment is cleaned for a changeover between different products. Instead of draining the water and cleaning solution, they flushed out all the whisky. What's even more shocking is no one noticed until 11 a.m."

"We are currently investigating an accidental loss on the 26th of February at our Dumbarton site, where some spirit was released to the local water treatment plant.

"There has been no release of spirit to the River Leven or any other local water course. We have informed Scottish Water and all other relevant authorities," stated the company statement.