Hazelburn distillery

Hazelburn was a whiskey distillery in Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The distillery buildings are sorted in the Scottish lists of monuments in the B category.

The distillery burned prior to its licensing in 1825 by the original partners Matthew and David Greenlees and Archie Collville probably already since 1796 black whiskey. This Hazelburn is the oldest distillery Campbeltowns, although it was licensed only to Campbeltown, Caledonian, Dalaruan, Kinloch, Lochhead, Longrow and Meadow Burn. The original buildings were located at the south end of the Longrow. However, a new plant in the Millknowe Road was opposite the mouth of Glengyle Road built to allow extensions necessary to cover the increased demand probably in the 1840s.

For a long time Hazelburn the largest distillery in the town. After the distillery since its inception has always been at least partially owned by the Greenlees family, she was sold to Mackie Co. in 1920, which a few years later, White Horse Distillers Ltd.. firmierten and finally aufgingen 1927 in the Distillers Company Limited ( DCL). Mid-1920s, they shared the fate of most distilleries Campbeltowns and was closed to the whiskey market during the general sales crisis. Supposedly it was even before that operated only sporadically over the years. The building of the former distillery were still used for many years as warehouses and still get some today.

When Alfred Barnard under his whiskey tour visited the distillery in 1885, it had an annual production capacity of 250,000 gallons and was thus the largest distillery in the town. In the year 1885 192.000 Gallonen whiskey were produced. To this end, stood with its 7000 -gallon coarse blister ( wash still ), which was the largest Campbeltowns at this time, and two 1800 gallons comprehensive fine blisters ( spirit stills ) are available. It was produced a malt whiskey.

Since 2005, the distillery Springbank spent a single-malt whiskey called Hazelburn. This is made from non-peat malt and triple distilled, resulting in a rather mild whiskey results. Initially, only an eight year old whiskey was put into the program, but which has been now extended to a twelve- year-old original bottling. Besides Hazelburn Springbank also spent a doubly distilled whiskey from peated malt under the name Longrow.

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• Image: Courtesy of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
• D. Daiches: Scotch whiskey, Macmillan, 1970.