The Glenrothes distillery

Lettering on the distillery building

Glenrothes is a whiskey distillery on the outskirts of Rothes, Morayshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.

History

The distillery was founded in 1878 by James Stuart & Co.. After the money -giving Caledonian Bank was forced to close, William Grant, Robert Dick and John Cruickshank founded the company William Grant & Co. and presented the distillery finished. She was to Glen Grant distillery in the second place. The production of whiskey began on December 28, 1879, collapsed on the day when the only built in 1877 Firth of Tay Bridge in Dundee. 1887 came the distillery to Highland Distillers. A fire destroyed on 15 May 1922, the Warehouse No. 1 with 2,500 barrels of whiskey. The burning whiskey flowed into the Burn of Rothes, which runs through the village in the middle. In 1963 the number of stills from four to six in 1980 and 1989 increased to eight to ten.

Production

The water belonging to the Speyside distillery comes from the Ardcanny source and Bruce Hill source. The distillery has a mash tun ( mash do ) (4.92 t ) and twenty fermentation tanks (wash backs) 12 douglas-fir ( per 25,500 liters) and eight stainless steel ( also 25,500 liters each, currently unused ). ( Are per 22,990 liters, but used only 12,900 l) is distilled into five wash stills and five spirit stills ( per 25,400 liters are used but only 15,000 l ) which are heated by steam. The malt used comes from the malt house of the Tamdhu distillery.