Glengyle Distillery - Kilkerran

Being a member of one of only three distilleries in Campbeltown, the smallest whisky region in Scotland, Glengyle Distillery is currently shaping single malt history on the Kintyre peninsula. 

Kilkerran pride themselves on completing all parts of the whisky production process on site, from the traditional floor maltings conducted at their sister distillery, Springbank, to the bottling of every edition at their bottling hall there in Campbeltown. Sharing a production team and calendar with the neighbouring Springbank Distillery, Glengyle has a short production period of around three months per year, typically operational from October – December.
 

A Spotlight on Campbeltown
 

Bottled under the Kilkerran name, Scottish Gaelic for Ceann Loch Cille Chiarain ("head of the lake of Saint Kieran's cell") Glengyle Distillery was originally founded in 1872 by William Mitchell, who had previously run Springbank Distillery.

After 53 years of production, Glengyle distillery closed in 1925. In 2000, after Decades-long closure of the distillery, the distillery was purchased by Mitchell’s Glengyle Ltd, headed by Hedley G Wright, then chairman of J&A Mitchell and great, great nephew of the original founder of Glengyle, William Mitchell.

A four year restoration and re-build of the buildings took place, resulting in the first Kilkerran Single Malt being distilled in 2004. Since that first bottling, Kilkerran have built up their range, with their core 12-year-old and 16-year-old along with a swathe of special releases.
 

​​