Strathclyde

Eventually the distillery was acquired by US company Schenley Industries, which in 1956 installed a pair of stills for the production of a single malt whisky named Kinclaith. This single malt was only produced on the site until 1975, when Whitbread acquired the site and reverted to 100% grain whisky production. Having been produced over such a short time, Kinclaith single malt is naturally very rare and bottlings by independents, such as Gordon & MacPhail and Signatory, are sought-after by collectors of Scotch whisky esoterica.

No official bottlings of Strathclyde single grain whisky were ever released; however independent bottlings, particularly those which have spent longer in cask, are of a very high quality and on many an enthusiast’s wish list.