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Kilchoman is a Scotch whisky distillery. The distillery, which began production in June 2005, was the first to be built on the island of Islay in 124 years. Kilchoman’s whisky is completely produced on site – from barley fields to bottling – at Rockside Farm on the west coast of the northern part of the island.

Bottlings
Kilchoman intends to release 5-, 8-, 10-, and 12-year-old bottlings. The whisky will primarily age in bourbon casks, though Sherry casks will also be employed.

The Kilchoman web page is very distinct, not at all corporate, it reads more like a new-age retreat ad.

http://www.kilchomandistillery.com/default.asp

Kilchoman is totally unique in that the whole production process is carried out on site. The barley (Optic & Chalice varieties) are grown at Rockside Farm, malted, distilled, matured and eventually bottled at the distillery.
In year 1 we will be producing 35,000 litres of alcohol (approx. 250 casks) steadily increasing until by year 5 we will be up to 80,000 LOA (approx. 650 casks), which will be our maximum production level per annum
We malt barley in 4 tonne batches and production levels in the first couple of year’s will require 3 x 1 tonne mashes and 6 distillations per week.
Draff will be fed to the cattle on the farm and waste sprayed on the fields.

A bit of news, interesting for a distillery priding itself on self-sufficiency.

“Kiln Fire

Unfortunately we had a fire in the kiln building the other week. The malt drying on the floor caught fire and has destroyed the kiln, but luckily with quick and professional manner in which the fire brigade acted the fire was contained and didn’t spread to any other part of the distillery. This unfortunate incident hasn’t prevented us from staying in production as we had built up a stock of malt. It will be a few months before the kiln is back in action and until then we are hoping to persuade the Port Ellen Maltings to malt our barley”

The first barrel was filled 14 December 2005.