St Magdalene distillery

St. Magdalene / Linlithgow was a whiskey distillery in Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland. The former distillery buildings are sorted in the Scottish monument lists in the C (S) category.

History

The distillery was founded under the name of Linlithgow in 1765 by Sebastian Henderson and 1797, taken over by Adam Dawson, who had opened already in 1795 the Bonny Town distillery in Linlithgow. 1810, two distilleries were merged. 1912 acquired the Distillers Company Limited ( DCL) the distillery. It was in 1914 next to Rosebank, Clydesdale, Glenkinchie and The Grange one of the five founding of Scottish malt distilleries Distillers ( SMD). During the Second World War was not produced. In 1983, she was decommissioned. Parts of the distillery are demolished, others are now apartments.

Production

The water belonging to the region Lowlands distillery came from the Loch Lomond. The malt used was heavily peated and came since the closure of the maltings in 1968 by Glenesk. It had two wash and spirit stills, accordingly, was doubly distilled.