Benromach distillery

Benromach Distillery

Benromach is a whiskey distillery in Forres, Morayshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. The Mälzereigebäude the distillery is sorted in the Scottish lists of monuments in the B category.

History

The brothers Duncan and John MacCallum of the Glen Nevis Distillery in Campbeltown and FW Brickmann founded in 1898 Benromach Distillery Company. They commissioned the architect Charles Doig with the planning of the distillery, and towards the end of the year, work began on a site of Alexander Edward. In May 1900, began with the production of whiskey, but in 1907 the distillery was shut down because Brickmann ran into financial difficulties. Now it tried MacCallums alone under the name of Forres Distillery, but in 1910 they gave up and put the distillery still again before they sold it in 1911 to Harvey McNair & Co. This operated the distillery from 1912 to 1914 and sold them after the First World War to John Joseph Calder, who resold it immediately to the Benromach Distillery Ltd was founded in 1919. This operated the distillery until 1925. Decommissioning lasted until 1937, when the distillery was bought by Joseph Hobbes, who resold it to Train & McIntyre in 1938. Train & McIntyre were taken over in 1953 by the Distillers Company Limited ( DCL). DCL gave the distillery Scottish Malt Distillers her daughter Ltd. ( SMD), which had it rebuilt in 1966, in 1968 the malting floor transformed into a warehouse and improvements in 1974 two new stills. On 24 March 1983, the distillery was decommissioned. Following the acquisition of DCL by United Distillers, Diageo today, including the stills were dismantled. In 1993, the distillery has been emptied and their stocks were purchased by Gordon and MacPhail. This renovated the distillery and endowed them with two new stills from. On October 15, 1998 he was officially reopened by Prince Charles. One of their products is a whiskey based on barley from organic farming ( Benromach Organic ).

Production

The water belonging to the Speyside distillery comes from the Chapelton sources. The distillery has a mash tun ( mash do ) ( 1.5 t) of stainless steel and four fermentation tanks (wash -backs) from larch wood ( per 11,000 liters ). Is distilled in a wash still ( 7,500 l ) and a spirit still ( 5,000 l), which are heated by steam.