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No grain, no gain: continuing from yesterday…
Peated
Strathclyde is a grain distillery in the Gorbals district of Glasgow, built by London distiller Seager Evans in 1927.1,2,3 From 1957 to 1975 it also held a malt whisky plant called Kinclaith.1,3,4 It is Glasgow's only grain distillery and the largest distillery of Chivas Brothers, part of Pernod Ricard.1,5,6 Its grain whisky goes into blends including Chivas Regal and Ballantine's.2,7,8
No grain, no gain: continuing from yesterday…
No grain, no gain: an avalanche of North British and other grain whiskies, Part 1
No grain, no gain: an avalanche of North British and other grain whiskies, Part 1
Seager Evans built it on the site of an old cotton mill, as a source of grain spirit other than DCL, which dominated the market.1,2,3 It produced its first spirit in 1928.2 Schenley Industries of New York bought Seager Evans in 1956 and invested heavily in the site.2,9,10
In 1957 two copper pot stills named Kinclaith were installed inside the grain plant, and they were the only stills then making malt whisky in Glasgow.1,3,4 That year the company running the site became Strathclyde and Long John Distilleries Ltd, after Seager Evans had bought the Long John blend in 1936.10 In 1975 Schenley sold Seager Evans, which held all of its Scotch assets, to the British brewer Whitbread & Co.1,3,9 Whitbread removed the Kinclaith stills that year to make way for a two-phase expansion of the grain and neutral spirit side.1,3,4 The blending and warehousing site next door was demolished at the same time.1,3,4
In 1988 Seager Evans & Co. Ltd was renamed Long John International Ltd.10 In 1989 Whitbread sold its wine and spirits divisions to Allied Lyons.1,10 Allied Lyons merged with Pedro Domecq in 1994 to form Allied Domecq.1,5 In 2002 the large Dumbarton Grain Distillery was mothballed, and production shifted to Strathclyde.11 Pernod Ricard completed its purchase of Allied Domecq on 26 July 2005.1,5,6
It distils in two linked columns, an analyser and a rectifier, built with sieve trays.1,2 Wikipedia says separate columns for neutral spirit are mothballed.1,2 Fermentation lasts 50 hours.1 It can make 40 million litres of alcohol a year.1,12 Wikipedia names Loch Katrine as its water, and Whiskypedia lists town mains.1,2
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