Glen Scotia Distillery

About Glen Scotia Distillery

Glen Scotia is just one of the smallest Scotch whisky distilleries in Scotland however one of the big names of Campbeltown. Our lovely distillery still keeps much of its original layout, consisting of the mashtun, the stillroom and the dunnage storehouse dating from the 1830s. The last century saw stormy times for the whisky distilleries of Campbeltown, yet our tradition withstands.

Rich in original features and devices, Glen Scotia is an evocative as well as one-of-a-kind location to work, in addition to visit. We strive to maintain the distillery's historic structures as well as functions with treatment as well as pride and love revealing site visitors around.

To this day, we're adhering to the footsteps of our founders, distilling whisky using conventional techniques, thoroughly creating the unique Campbeltown maritime design we've become world well-known for.

However we make more than whisky at Glen Scotia. In the courtyard you'll find two hives, where our resident bees create their tasty honey.

Glen Scotia has actually always created two designs of whisky-- peated and also non peated. Generally our peated whisky is made over a period of 6 weeks each year.

For many years the high quality of our whisky has actually expanded, with longer fermentation and also vatting of the malted barley, in addition to a slower and a lot more cautious distillation. Yet overall the procedure has actually stayed the same. Although we no longer malt our very own barley, we buy in Scottish malted barley to our precise specification in order to keep true Glen Scotia character through our distilling procedure. We would certainly like to welcome you to Glen Scotia.

Campbeltown is an extremely special location in Scotland, referred to as 'the centre of the universe' by some of its present residents. With a wealth of abundant farmland, regional barley, peat and also fresh water, it was virtually inevitable it would become an important part of the background of whisky distilling.

Distilling on the Kintyre peninsula dates back to 1609 with the providing of the initial licence to generate 'aqua vitae'. In the Victorian age, Campbeltown was referred to as the whisky resources of the world-- one of the five distinct malt producing regions of Scotland, specifically Highland, Speyside, Lowland and Islay and also of course, Campbeltown. Glen Scotia is a great instance of this historical area.