Chivas Invests in Future and Reopens Glen Keith

[William]

With a new luxury bottling plant and plans to reopen Glen Keith distillery Chivas Brothers is predicting a bright future for Scotch as consumers are showing a thirst for premium spirits.

They have invested in there bottling plant in Paisley and plan to increase malt whisky distillation capacity at Glenallachie, Glentauchers, Tormore and Longmorn distilleries, and the reopening of Glen Keith distillery in April 2013, resulting in a 25% capacity increase across 2012 and 2013.

Read more here:
www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/chivasbrothersinvestsinfuture.htm
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[Keith]

25% is quite an increase in capacity

[bifter]

Great news! Glen Keith has a really interesting history, it was used by Chivas as an experimental distillery. It originally had three stills for triple distillation, unusual in Speyside, the gas fired stills installed in 1971 were the first in Scotland and they developed new strains of yeast. They also dabbled with peating the water instead of the barley!
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[Acker]

Yea great news about Glen Keith but i am sure the reopening will be more to do with supplying whisky to go into to the Chivas Brothers blends but hopefully we will see some single malt released in the future.