Facts about this distillery
Established
1828
Owner
J & A Mitchell & Company
Annual Capacity
750,000 Litres
Region
Campbeltown
Number of Stills
Three pot stills – 1 wash, 2 spirit
Springbank Distillery. Five generations. One single malt Scotch whisky.
To this day, Springbank remains independently owned – five generations altogether. It’s been in J & A Mitchell & Company’s hands since 1828, and the J & A Mitchell & Company logo adorns every bottle.
Amazingly, as far back as the 17th century, Campbeltown was heavily engaged in whisky smuggling. The illegal production of whisky was rife, and the term ‘Uisge Beatha’, Gaelic for ‘water of life’, commonly used.
An exclusively Campbeltown distillery.
At one time, Campbeltown, in the Scottish Highlands, boasted over thirty active distilleries. Springbank is one of its last surviving single malt whisky producers. For added standout, the distillery has always, malted its own barley – its malting floor provides for 100% of their distillate, which makes it 100% Campbeltown born and bred.
Nothing stood in Springbank’s way. Nothing.
The distillery chimneys collapsed in December 1883, when a storm hit. The sturdy building was again hit by bad weather in 1904. It closed in 1926 due to the Prohibition act in the US and reopened in 1936. Then shut again in 1979 due to the poor UK economy.
In 1993, a renovated Springbank took pride in selling miniature whisky bottles at Balmoral Castle.
Springbank currently produces just 750,000 litres of spirit production per year. If you want to grab a taste, you’d better be quick, it’s a seriously elusive dram.
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