Benriach Floor Maltings

Five years later the floor maltings were mothballed which are only recently being refurbed for a reopening.

Benriach floor maltings. At present balvenie is the only mainland distillery making its own malt but that is due to change in the very near future as benriach near elgin is about to re open its floor maltings. In 2004 a consortium headed by billy walker purchased the distillery and has since saved a forgotten about brand. When pernod ricard took over seagram s whisky division in 2001 benriach was mothballed but in april of 2004 benriach was sold along with several thousand casks for 5 4million to the south african company infra trading combining their efforts with burn. They fell silent in 1999 when the distillery was owned by chivas brothers who had put the benriach maltings to innovative use at times making significant.

Benriach will also release a new small batch limited edition malting season expression to mark the site as one of two speyside distilleries to practice traditional floor malting. 2013 benriach s floor maltings is reopened. They are the only speyside distillery that still rely entirely on their original floor maltings resulting in a highly characterful whisky so deeply in touch with tradition that both demand and prices are steeply rising. Capacity mlpa i 2 condenser type i traditional column condenser fermentation time i 48 50hrs.

Meanwhile the company buys glenglassaugh distillery 2016 us drinks producer brown forman acquires benriach along with the entire benriach distillery company benriach facts. Benriach is one of just two remaining distilleries in speyside to distill whisky using malted barley from its own floor maltings celebrating a tradition whi.