Once upon a time Campbeltown prided itself as the Scotch whisky capital of the world, with over 30 distilleries. However, a focus on quantity instead of quality, along with the combination of Prohibition and the Great Depression in the United States, led to most of these distilleries going out of business. Springbank, founded in 1828,…
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To rebrand at this time seems to make as much sense as if Captain Smith of the Titanic called an all-hands meeting to discuss renaming the shipping line from White Star to White Berg, while the ship was going down. But there is now a path – no, make that a motorway – to reopening…
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It’s hard to believe today with the hundreds and hundreds of craft distilleries in the UK, there were zero until Sipsmith successfully challenged the law regarding still size that had been in the books for nearly 200 years. Along with the law, the London-based gin distillery has challenged how gin is made, creating the whole…
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