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Anthony and Kathy on the Road
March 2, 2014Anthony and Kathy are currently halfway through a tasting tour of Dubai, India, New Zealand and Australia. They are spending three weeks on the road hosting tastings, visiting customers and attending whisky festivals. Here are a few examples of what they have been getting up to, including Anthony making an appearance on the channel 3 […]
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6 Random Kilchoman Facts
February 22, 20141. Kilchoman is named so because the distillery sits in the parish of Kilchoman, Kilchoman Church is only a few hundred metres from the still house. 2. It takes 17 days to transform harvested Kilchoman barley into new make spirit which is filled into casks o 1 day drying the harvested barley o 2 days […]
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Malt Floor
February 18, 2014We are well underway with production in 2014 now and the small changes to the distillery have certainly made life a little easier on the malt floor! A conveyor in the middle of the floor now takes the barley straight up and into the Kiln.. A very welcome improvement from previously using broom handles and […]
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New Vatting Tanks Being Fitted
January 14, 2014We have had a busy start to 2014 at the distillery with lots of new equipment being fitted. As well as the new Conisby warehouse, which now holds all our maturing casks, we have installed two new vatting tanks in the warehouse opposite the still house. The new vatting tanks will marry the Machir Bay, […]
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