Business Description
Glen Scotia is one of the smallest Scotch whisky distilleries in Scotland yet one of the big names of Campbeltown. Our lovely distillery still preserves much of its initial style, including the mash tun, the stillroom and also the dunnage stockroom dating from the 1830s. The last century saw turbulent times for the whisky distilleries of Campbeltown, yet our heritage sustains. Rich in original features and devices, Glen Scotia is an evocative and unique area to work, in addition to check out. We work hard to preserve the distillery's historical buildings and also operations with treatment as well as pride and love revealing visitors around. To this particular day, we're complying within the footprints of our founders, distilling whisky making use of traditional techniques, meticulously producing the one-of-a-kind Campbeltown maritime style we've ended up being world popular for. Yet we make greater than whisky at Glen Scotia. In the yard you'll discover two hives, where our resident bees produce their scrumptious honey. Glen Scotia has actually always created two designs of whisky-- peated and also non peated. Typically our peated whisky is made over a duration of 6 weeks per year. Over the years the top quality of our whisky has grown, with longer fermentation and vatting of the malted barley, in addition to a slower as well as more cautious purification. But generally the procedure has continued to be the very same. Although we no longer malt our very own barley, we acquire in Scottish malted barley to our exact spec in order to maintain true Glen Scotia character via our distilling procedure. We would certainly like to invite you to Glen Scotia. Campbeltown is an extremely special area in Scotland, described as 'the centre of deep space' by several of its current residents. With an abundance of rich farmland, regional barley, peat and also fresh water, it was practically unavoidable it would end up being a vital part of the history of whisky distilling. Distilling on the Kintyre peninsula dates back to 1609 with the giving of the initial permit to generate 'aqua vitae'. In the Victorian age, Campbeltown was known as the whisky funding of the world-- one of the five distinctive malt-creating regions of Scotland, particularly Highland, Speyside, Lowland and Islay and certainly, Campbeltown. Glen Scotia is a fine example of this historical region.
