Kintyre (whiskey distillery)
| Kintyre | |
|---|---|
| country | Scotland |
| region | Campbeltown |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 25 '45.4 " N , 5 ° 36' 29.6" W |
| Type | Paint |
| status | Closed in 1921 |
| owner | |
| Founded | 1825 |
| founder | John Beith |
| Production volume | 67,000 gallons (1885) |
Kintyre was a whiskey distillery in Campbeltown , Argyll and Bute , Scotland . It is named after the Kintyre peninsula on which Campbeltown is located.
The distillery was founded in 1825 by John Beith , who was also involved in other Campbeltown distilleries such as Campbeltown or Longrow . It was on Broad Street about across from the Dalaruan distillery . After Beith's death in 1840, his son established a partnership with John Ross and John Colville , who jointly ran the distillery until 1876. John Ross & Co. then took over the business until it closed in 1921 . Kintyre was Campbeltown's first distillery to close in the 1920s, marking the first sign of the decline in whiskey production in this town, to which 15 more distilleries would fall victim over the next eight years. Today the buildings have been torn down and houses built on the land.
When Alfred Barnard visited the distillery as part of his whiskey trip in 1885, he gave only sparse information about the equipment of this distillery. The annual production capacity was 67,000 gallons . There were three stills ( pot stills ) available that a malt whiskey produced, which was comparable to that of Longrow distillery.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Alfred Barnard: The Whiskey Distilleries of the United Kingdom , 1887, p. 84.
- ↑ Presentation on lostdistillery.com
- ↑ Introduction on wormtub.com