All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
The annual limited releases are usually opened by the Sherry Cask release “Loch Gorm”. This year it will be the same again, but at the same time another release will be launched: “Port Cask Matured 2nd Edition”. For the 2018 “Loch Gorm” edition, 19 Oloroso Sherry Butts from 2007, 2008 and 2011 were married together. This resulted in a yield […]
Read moreKilchoman proudly announces that the new kiln and malt floor building has been completed. The malt floor, on which barley will be spread for the first time next week, and the new kiln are more than twice the size of their predecessors built in 2005. The new malting floor will allow up to 4 tons of barley to be malt […]
Read moreOn the eve of the famous “Whisky Fair 2018” in Limburg, the whisky bar “Villa Konthor” was the first German location to be awarded the title of a “Comraich-Bar”. Peter Wills, Marketing and Sales Manager of Kilchoman and the German importer “Alba Import” awarded the title and guided the guests through the evening at a “Kilchoman Comraich Dinner”. In addition […]
Read moreAn exclusive Kilchoman Single Cask Release was bottled for the Roma Whisky Festival 2018, which took place on 3 and 4 March 2018. The whisky was matured for five and a half years in a fresh ex-bourbon barrel. . Cask No.: 471/2011 Cask type: 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel Date Filled: 11.8.2011 Date Bottled: 5.2.2018 Age: 6 yo Strength: 58,6 % […]
Read moreAfter malting and kilning and before mashing, the barley malt must be ground in a special grain mill after a certain resting period. Like many Scottish distilleries, Kilchoman uses a time-honoured Porteus Mill, which was bought second-hand from a brewery in England and installed in 2005 in a small separate room behind the malting floor, to the side of the […]
Read moreKilchoman today announced that the 6th Edition of the annual Club Release will be available exclusively to Club members from noon (GMT) on Wednesday 6 December at £99.00 per bottle. Due to the low number of 1,241 bottles, sales are limited to one bottle per person. The 2017 Club Release is a vatting of five 10-year-old bourbon barrels at cask […]
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