Kilkerran is the name of the single malt whisky made at the Glengyle distillery in Campbeltown. Dormant since 1925, Glengyle was purchased in 2000 by J&A Mitchell, who of course are also the owners of Springbank distillery and Cadenhead’s. The distillery was completely refurbished and refitted, and production began again in 2004.

Glengyle’s single malt whisky is sold as Kilkerran because they do not own the Glengyle brand name. Glengyle’s malted barley comes from Springbank, whose staff also operate the plant. The distillery is small, with just two stills sourced from the defunct Ben Wyvis distillery at Invergordon, and the majority of the output is lightly peated although 20% of the runs are now heavily peated spirit.

Due to the limited nature of production at Glengyle, Kilkerran single malt whiskies are generally quite small batches which tend to sell out very quickly. Hopefully the proven popularity of Kilkerran’s whisky will enable the distillery to continue to increase production levels so that there’s more of Glengyle’s single malt to go round in future.