Glen Ord
| Glen Ord | |
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 Glen Ord Distillery (Stillhouse) |
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| country | Scotland |
| region | Highlands |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 31 '23.8 " N , 4 ° 28' 34.4" W |
| Type | Paint |
| status | active |
| owner | Diageo |
| Founded | 1838 |
| founder | Robert Johnstone, Donald McLennan |
| Water source | Loch nam Bonnach, Loch nan Euan |
| Washstill (s) | 3 × 18,000 l |
| Spiritstill (s) | 3 × 15,500 l |
| Production volume | 5,000,000 l |
Glen Ord is a whiskey distillery at Muir of Ord on the Black Isle peninsula , Ross-shire , Scotland .
history
The distillery was founded in 1838 by Robert Johnstone and Donald McLennan. In 1847 Robert Johnstone had to retire. In 1855 the distillery went to Alexander McLennan and Thomas McGregor. After the death of Alexander McLennan in 1870, Alexander MacKenzie, the new husband of McLennan's widow, took over the distillery in 1877 until it was sold to James Watson & Son in 1896 . Watson renovated the distillery and increased the malt floor. The distillery was closed from 1917 to 1919. In 1923 it was sold to Thomas Dewar and in 1925 it came to Distillers Company Limited (DCL). From 1939 to 1945 the distillery was closed again.
From 1958 to 1966, a series of tests was carried out at Glen Ord to determine whether there were differences in taste in the whiskey with different still firing ( coal , oil, steam). In 1958, two of the now four stills were converted to direct oil firing, the remaining stills remained with direct coal firing. In 1960 the two oil-fired stills were switched to steam. 1961 were Tennenmälzerei ( Floor Maltings ) closed and Kastenmälzanlagen ( Saladin boxes ) installed. In 1966 the number of stills was increased to six and the firing was switched completely to steam.
1968 was a major in the grounds of the distillery drum malting ( drum Maltings ) built the distillery itself its malt referred until 1983 from the 1961 built Kastenmalzanlage. In 1985 the distillery went to United Distillers (UD) and ultimately to Diageo .
At times the whiskey was also sold as Glen Oran , Ord , Ordie and Glenordie ; Original bottlings under these names are now sought-after collector's items.
production
The water of the distillery, which belongs to the Highlands / Northern Highlands region, comes from Loch nam Bonnach and Loch nam Euan. The distillery has a mash tun ( mash do ) (12.5 t), ten fermenting vats ( wash backs ) (six from Douglas fir , each with 59,000 l and four from stainless steel ), three coarse blisters ( wash stills ) (18,000 l each) and three Fine brandy bubbles ( spirit stills ) (15,500 l each) that are heated by steam. For storage are Sherry - and Bourbon Barrels used. The malt house (18 drums) built in 1968 supplies a large number of Scottish distilleries (for example Clynelish and Talisker ).
In June 2014, production increased from 5,000,000 liters / year to 11,000,000 liters / year.
See also
literature
- Charles MacLean (Ed.): Whiskey. World Guide, Regions, Distillers, Malts, Blends, Tasting Notes. Dorling Kindersley, London 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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Misako Udo: The Scottish Whiskey Distilleries . Black & White Publishing, Edinburgh 2006, ISBN 1-845-021304 .
- ↑ a b c d Ingvar Ronde: Malt Whiskey Yearbook 2013. Mag Dig Media, Shrewsbury 2012, ISBN 978-0-9552607-9-7 , p. 146.