Saucel
| Saucel | |
|---|---|
| country | Scotland |
| region | Lowlands |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 50 '28.3 " N , 4 ° 25' 16.7" W |
| Type | Malt, grain |
| status | Closed in 1918 |
| owner | |
| Founded | 1793 |
| founder | Fleming & Bochop |
| Water source | Oldbar Burn |
| Production volume | 1,000,000 gallons (1885) |
Saucel , also known as Paisley , was a whiskey distillery in Paisley , Renfrewshire , Scotland . The brandy produced was therefore assigned to the Lowlands whiskey region .
history
The distillery was probably founded in 1793 by Fleming and Bochop under the name Paisley as a combined brewery and distillery. Within the first decades of its existence, the owners changed several times and the distillery went bankrupt several times. In 1825 it came into the hands of James Stewart , who ran it for many decades. In 1885 a coffey still for the production of grain whiskey was added to the existing pot stills , but this was removed again in 1903. During World War I , Distillers Company Ltd. bought ( DCL ) opened the distillery and eventually closed it. It is not known when exactly the renaming from Paisley to Saucel took place.
When Alfred Barnard visited the distillery as part of his major whiskey tour in 1886, it had an annual production capacity of 1,000,000 gallons of whiskey , making it one of the largest distilleries in Scotland. There were 18 stills available with a total capacity of 45,000 gallons. How many of these were coarse ( wash stills ) and fine stills ( spirit stills ) is not described in detail. Barnard also mentions the use of a Coffey Still.
Further information
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b A. Barnard : The Whiskey Distilleries of the United Kingdom , 1887, pp. 49-50.
- ↑ a b Ulf Buxrud: Lost Scotch Malt Whiskey Distilleries 1888–1945 , 2000 ( Memento from April 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ entry in wormtub.com