It’s St. George’s Day and we’re flying the flag for English whisky. Despite our love for all things alcohol, until recently England has had a surprising lack of whisky distilleries; Alfred Barnard’s 1887 book The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom listed only four distilleries in England. By 1905, England had completely stopped producing single malt, and that way it stayed for nearly 100 years…
These days England is enjoying a boom in distilling with around 40 distilleries producing or in construction. To celebrate this, we wanted to showcase just a few of these distilleries and some of their exciting developments.