Ardmore

Demand for Scotch after the Second World War led Ardmore to add a second pair of stills in 1955.^3,6,9 In 1974 the stills were doubled again, to eight, after UK sales of Teacher's Highland Cream passed one million cases.^1,3,6

In 1976 Allied Breweries bought William Teacher & Sons, ending family control of the firm.^1,3,6 The same year its Saladin maltings stopped; these were boxes in which malt was turned by vertical screws.^1,3,6 Allied Breweries became part of Allied Lyons in 1978, and then part of Allied Domecq in 1994.^3,7 In 2000 a fire broke out in the coal-fired still house.¹⁰ After it, the owners chose a safer, indirect way to heat the stills, which EU rules would have required by 2006 anyway.¹⁰ In 2001 Ardmore became one of the last distilleries in Scotland to switch from coal-fired stills to steam, and began making an unpeated spirit, Ardlair, for blending.^3,4,9 The coal fires had given the spirit a heavy weight, so the team built kinked steam coils to copy their hot spots.^3,4,9

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