Glenfiddich
Nothing is straightforward in whisky. Here is a distillery which makes the biggest selling malt in the world, but still uses coal-fired stills, a technique most distillers have abandoned for being too expensive and liable to give variable results.
It’s a light dram produced from tiny stills, when industry wisdom maintains that small equals big.
Only Glenfiddich and Springbank make, mature and bottle on the same site. To be the manager of all of that must be daunting, but lan Millar is up for it. With 25 years’ experience in 10 UD distilleries, lan knows how to get the most out of a plant.
As a modern distillery manager he has to balance the need for a plant to be cost-effective, while preserving the tradition which uniquely impacts on the distillery’s character. ‘The lower the cost per litre, the greater the margin,’ he says.
‘So whisky production is all to do with lowering the cost of the make.’ Unromantic? A distillery manager’s job has always been about getting the best possible yield from the malt, without impacting on quality or character.
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