Brown-Forman, owner of Glenglassaugh Distillery in Scotland, has announced a temporary halt in production due to industry challenges and a shift in production strategy. While the distillery is not closing permanently, it will enter periods of 'silent seasons' to optimize resources and share production with its sister distillery, Benriach.
Taste Test: Jack Daniel’s New Whiskey Shows How the Distillery Makes Stellar Rye Tooarrived that Brown-Forman was laying off 12 percent of its global workforce and selling its Louisville cooperage, there is some more bad news to report.
According to an Instagram post by one of its employees,is shutting down production at least through the end of this year due to what he calls “the decline in theindustry and a change in the corporations activities.” We reached out to Brown-Forman today to confirm this news, and a representative said this marks the beginning of the incorporation of “silent seasons” into the production model.The Overlooked Burgundy Grand Cru That Deserves a Place in Your Cellarhas a long history dating back to 1874, but it remains one of the lesser-known distilleries amongst scotch whisky drinkers here in America—and not due to a lack of very good whisky, it should be noted. It’s located in the Highland coastal town of Portsoy, where the stillhouse opens up to a beautiful view of the scenic Sandend Bay. The distillery has a sort of checkered history of stops and starts with many shutdowns along the way, the most recent of which was in 1986. Nearly 20 years later, a Russian company bought it and started making whisky again there, and in 2013 Glenglassaugh joined forces withas part of the Benriach Distillery Co. In 2016, Brown-Forman acquired all three distilleries and have been revamping and re-releasing their whisky lineups over the course of the past ten years. The core range relaunched in 2023 with three new expressions—12 Year Old, Portsoy, and Sandend—and last spring was the release of the ultra-aged Serpentine Coastal Cask Collection.to social media, Glenglassaugh distillery production operator Tijay Salhotra, went on to say that while his role has become redundant, the distillery is not closing for good and “should restart towards the end of the year.” A spokesperson for Brown-Forman confirmed the news about production halting, but said that the distillery is not shutting down. “We are implementing a shared production model with Benriach, which will involve periods of production alongside occasional silent seasons, as has been the case traditionally,” she told, explaining that this will optimize resources. “This shared production model, and our ongoing demand planning process, resulted in a small number of redundancies. We deeply value the contributions of those impacted and are committed to providing support to them throughout this process.”As we’ve reported over the past few months, the whiskey industry overall has been facing some serious challenges, both here in the U.S. and abroad, with younger people drinking much less, profit margins and sales from major corporations like Brown-Forman and, which could set off a new whiskey trade war. Ultimately, the changes at Glenglassaugh seem like result of these factors, and possibly a lack of demand for the distillery’s whisky, at least in comparison to its sister distilleries. We will update you if there is any further news about this, and Brown-Forman’s whisky operations overall.Flicker is currently Robb Report's whiskey critic, writing a weekly review of the most newsworthy releases around. He is a freelance writer covering the spirits industry whose work has appeared in…The Overlooked Burgundy Grand Cru That Deserves a Place in Your CellarTaste Test: Jack Daniel’s New Whiskey Shows How the Distillery Makes Stellar Rye TooMeet the Wine Club That Thinks Differently.Quentin Tarantino in ‘No Hurry’ to Direct Final Movie; Pledges to Wait Until His Son Can Have Lifelong Memories on Set
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