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How it's made
MALTING > MASHING > FERMENTATION > DISTILLATION > MATURATION
Step 4: Distillation
The wash is distilled twice in our copper pot stills. During the first distillation the alcohol vapour condenses into a liquid of approximately 25% abv, known as low wines. These low wines are then collected in a receiving vessel before being transferred into a spirit still, where a second distillation produces the new spirit, which is approximately 70% abv.
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“I’ve
been with the distillery for over 28 years. It’s a great setting
for a distillery, a great place to work and live – we have
the neighbourliness and friendliness that is lost in many modern
towns and cities. My eldest boy works here, and it’s good
to know that the next generation will carry on making whisky”This is where the skilled art of the Stillman is used to select the ‘heart of the spirit’ – the highest quality of alcohols at around 70% abv, which he then channels into one of our special holding vats, known as spirit receivers.
The spirit that the Stillman does not select – known as foreshots and feints – are returned for distillation, whilst the accepted heart of the spirit is reduced with water to 63.5% abv.
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