Benromach
| Benromach | |
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 Benromach Distillery |
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| country | Scotland |
| region | Speyside |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 36 '47.7 " N , 3 ° 37' 13.8" W |
| Type | Paint |
| status | active |
| owner | Gordon & MacPhail |
| Founded | 1898 |
| founder | Benromach Distillery Company |
| architect | Charles Chree Doig |
| Water source | Chapelton sources |
| Washstill (s) | 1 × 7,500 l |
| Spiritstill (s) | 1 × 5,000 l |
| Production volume | 500,000 l |
| Website | www.benromach.com |
Benromach is a whiskey distillery in Forres , Moray , Scotland , UK . The distillery's malt house is listed in Category B on the Scottish Monument Lists.
history
The brothers Duncan and John MacCallum of the Glen Nevis Distillery in Campbeltown and FW Brickmann founded the Benromach Distillery Company in 1898 . They hired architect Charles Doig to design the distillery, and construction began on Alexander Edward's site towards the end of the year. The production of whiskey began in May 1900, but the distillery was closed in 1907 when Brickmann ran into financial difficulties. Now the MacCallums tried it alone under the name Forres Distillery , but in 1910 they gave up and closed the distillery again before selling it to Harvey McNair & Co in 1911 . They operated the distillery from 1912 to 1914 and sold it to John Joseph Calder after the First World War , who immediately sold it to Benromach Distillery Ltd , founded in 1919 . They operated the distillery until 1925. The closure lasted until 1937 when the distillery was bought by Joseph Hobbes, who sold it to Train & McIntyre in 1938 . Train & McIntyre were taken over in 1953 by the Distillers Company Limited (DCL). DCL gave the distillery her daughter Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd. (SMD), which had it rebuilt in 1966, 1968 transformed the malting floor in a warehouse and in 1974 two new stills internals. The distillery was shut down on March 24, 1983. After United Destillers , now Diageo , took over DCL , the stills were dismantled, among other things. In 1993 the cleared distillery and its stocks were bought by Gordon & MacPhail . They renovated the distillery and equipped it with two new stills. On October 15, 1998, it was officially reopened by Prince Charles . One of their products is a whiskey based on organically grown barley (Benromach Organic).
production
The water of the Speyside distillery comes from the Chapelton springs. The distillery has a mash tun ( mash do ) (1.5 tons) of steel and four fermentation tanks ( wash backs ) made of larch (per 11,000 l). Distillation takes place in a wash still (7,500 l) and a spirit still (5,000 l), which are heated by steam.
See also
literature
- Charles MacLean (Ed.): Whiskey. World Guide, Regions, Distillers, Malts, Blends, Tasting Notes. Dorling Kindersley, New York NY et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-7566-3349-3 .
- Walter Schobert: The whiskey dictionary. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2003, ISBN 978-3-596-15868-3
- Ingvar Ronde (Ed.): Malt Whiskey Yearbook 2017 MagDig Media Limited, Shrewsbury. 2016, ISBN 978-0-9576553-3-1
