Stromness (whiskey distillery)
| Stromness | |
|---|---|
| country | Scotland |
| region | Islands |
| Geographical location | 58 ° 57 '28.2 " N , 3 ° 18' 7.4" W |
| Type | Paint |
| status | Closed in 1928 |
| owner | |
| Founded | 1817 |
| founder | John Crookshanks |
| Washstill (s) | 1 × 300 gallons (1886) |
| Spiritstill (s) | 1 × 300 gallons (1886) |
| Production volume | 7,000 gallons (1887) |
Stromness was a whiskey distillery in Stromness , on the Orkney Islands , Scotland . The fire produced was thus assigned to the islands whiskey region .
The distillery was founded in 1817 by John Crookshanks . It changed hands frequently, but kept coming back into the hands of the Crookshank family. The company was closed between the late 1860s and 1878. Then the MacPherson brothers bought the distillery, renamed it Man O'Hoy, and put it back into operation. Around 1900 the distillery came into the possession of the McConnell company, who ran it until it closed in 1928. In the 1940s the buildings were completely destroyed. Today there are no visible remains of the distillery.
When Alfred Barnard visited the distillery as part of his major whiskey tour in 1886, it had an annual production capacity of 7,000 gallons . There were two stills , each with a capacity of 300 gallons, in which malt whiskey was produced.
To this day Stromness is the third furthest north in Scotland. Only the still active Scapa and Highland Park distilleries are 1.1 and 1.5 kilometers further north, respectively.
Additional information
- Entry on Stromness in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
- Scotch whiskey. Its past and present. With color photographs by Alan Daiches. German, London 1969, ISBN 0-233-96053-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Alfred Barnard : The Whiskey Distilleries of the United Kingdom. Harper's Weekly Gazette, London 1887, pp. 154-155.
- ↑ Information on wormtub.com
- ↑ Ulf Buxrud: Lost Scotch Malt Whiskey Distilleries 1888–1945 , 2000 ( Memento from April 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )