Glen Scotia Distillery

Glen Scotia is one of the tiniest Scotch whisky distilleries in Scotland yet one of the big names of Campbeltown. Our wonderful distillery still preserves much of its initial style, consisting of the mash tun, the stillroom as well as the dunnage warehouse dating from the 1830s. The last century saw turbulent times for the whisky distilleries of Campbeltown, yet our legacy endures.

Rich in original functions and tools, Glen Scotia is an expressive and also unique place to work, in addition to going to. We strive to preserve the distillery's historical buildings and also workings with care as well as pride and also love revealing site visitors around.

To now, we're complying within the footprints of our founders, distilling whisky making use of traditional methods, very carefully creating the one-of-a-kind Campbeltown maritime design we've come to be world popular for.

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

Glen Scotia has always produced two styles of whisky-- peated and also non peated. Usually our peated whisky is transformed for a duration of 6 weeks annually.

For many years the top quality of our whisky has actually expanded, with longer fermentation and vatting of the malted barley, along with a slower and also extra careful distillation. Yet in general the procedure has remained the very same. Although we no longer malt our own barley, we buy in Scottish malted barley to our exact requirements in order to maintain real Glen Scotia personality via our distilling process. We 'd like to welcome you to Glen Scotia.

Campbeltown is a very special place in Scotland, described as 'the centre of the universe' by some of its current residents. With a wealth of abundant farmland, regional barley, peat as well as fresh water, it was virtually inescapable; it would certainly come to be an essential part of the history of whisky distilling.

Distilling on the Kintyre peninsula dates back to 1609 with the giving of the very first licence to produce 'aqua vitae'. In the Victorian age, Campbeltown was known as the whisky capital of the world-- one of the five distinct malt generating regions of Scotland, specifically Highland, Speyside, Lowland as well as Islay as well as of course, Campbeltown. Glen Scotia is a great example of this historic region.