Glen Keith

Glen Keith is a whiskey distillery in Keith, Moray, Scotland.

Chivas Brothers, which already operated the opposite Strathisla distillery, began in 1957 with the establishment of a new distillery in Keith. She was the first distillery foundation in Scotland after the boom in the Victorian era. The Glen Keith baptized operation was completed in 1960. Glen Keith served the spirits group in addition to the commercial whiskey production as a test facility for the development of innovative techniques. It first three stills were used, a coarse fire and two fine blisters, which produced a triple- fired malt whiskey; However, it could also be easily converted to double distillation. The usual in the Lowlands whiskey region three times burning, however, is not common in the Speyside region and reflects the experimental nature of the distillery resist. Later the number of stills was increased to six. This mid-1970s, the first gas-fired pot stills were ever installed.

The Glen Keith distillery also produced their own malt and their own yeast. Here also the Strathisla distillery was supplied via a pressure line with malt. For a time, a peated malt whiskey was produced, the independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail sales under the trade name Glenisla. It is worth mentioning that the Torfraucharoma was not produced as usual by getorftes malt, but by treated with peat smoke water.

In 1999 Glen Keith was mothballed in 2001 and went into the possession of Pernod Ricard. In June 2013, the distillery was re-opened ..