Diageo plans new distillery

Posted on July 13, 2007
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The Scotsman reports on Diages £40 million plan to build Scotland’s first major distillery for three decades.

Diageo, the world’s largest drinks company, believes the facility is needed to help meet anticipated long-term demand for whisky in growing markets like Brazil, Russia, India, China and Mexico.

The new state-of-the-art distillery will be built at Roseisle, between Elgin and Forres, where Diageo already operates a major maltings facility.

The Green Distillery
The proposed Roseisle complex is expected to be Scotland’s most environmentally friendly distillery. It has been hailed by Brian Higgs, Diageo’s malt distilling director, as the “distillery of the future”.

The 14 copper whisky stills will be of traditional design, as will the mashing tuns where the sugar is extracted from the malted barley before yeast is added, and the “wash backs” in the second stage of the fermentation process.

Read the full article over at The Scotsman