Glenglassaugh

Moir ran the distillery with his nephews Alexander and William Morrison; Whiskypedia also names coppersmith Thomas Wilson as a co-founder.^1,2,3 Alfred Barnard's 1887 book describes two malting floors and a kiln fired only with peat dug from the Crombie Moss.⁷ Water from the Glassaugh River ran through the site and turned a huge water-wheel that drove the machinery.⁷ He found five washbacks, the tanks where the wash, a kind of beer, ferments, and a wash still and a spirit still, each heated by a furnace.⁷ A worm tub, a square timber vessel fed by the dam, served as the condenser, and output was 80,000 gallons a year.⁷

After Moir died, the distillery changed hands in 1892: Robertson and Baxter bought it and quickly sold it on to Highland Distilleries.^1,3,4 The distillery's own history instead dates Highland Distilleries' takeover to 1959.^1,3,4 A downturn in the whisky industry forced it to close in 1907, though it was not dismantled.^1,4,8 In 1959 Highland Distilleries put up a new building for mashing, fermentation and distillation, and production capacity was doubled in the same period.^1,3,9 Distilling resumed in 1960, with the aim of making whisky for blends.

Ownership passed to Edrington in 1999, when the Edrington Group bought Highland Distillers.^6,9,11 Edrington sold Glenglassaugh casks to independent bottlers while the distillery was mothballed.^5,6 Whiskypedia says Stuart Nickerson set up a firm in 2006 to buy the distillery for the Scaent Group; a Business Insider profile says Scaent approached him in 2007.^6,10