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Posted On: Tuesday, June 18th 2019

  Week 9 - the penultimate week of the 2019 Whisky School. For week 9 we were joined in Campbeltown by Chris, John, Ken and Wen who all crossed the pond from the USA.  The team worked hard (and played hard too!) throughout the week, taking part in the regular distillery duties alongside our staff; malting, distilling ...

Posted On: Wednesday, June 12th 2019

  Can you believe we have passed Week 8? Time flies when you are having fun/working hard/shovelling malt/rolling casks... Week 8 saw us welcome Clay, Louis, Markus, Stephan, Veith and Viviane from USA, Hong Kong, Germany and Switzerland. This group were particularly hard-working and detail orientated as shown in the Blending Session (which ...

Posted On: Monday, June 10th 2019

Week 7 of the 2019 Whisky School saw us welcome Alexey, Ari, Bryan, Carmen, Shai and Walter from Russia, UK, USA and Israel. This international group set about the tasks before them with great curiosity and enthusiasm - although when it came to shovelling malt perhaps their postive attitude wavered slightly... As we always say, this ...

Posted On: Monday, May 20th 2019

  Week 6 - the last week before the break for the Campbeltown Malts Festival.   For Week 6, we were joined by Liza, Mark, Simon, Terri, Wayne and Wilson from USA, Canada and the UK. An enthusiastic and dedicated group, it was great having this bunch with us here in Campbeltown for the week.   The group took ...

Posted On: Friday, May 17th 2019

Campbeltown Malts Festival 2019: Full Schedule The Campbeltown Malts Festival 2019 will commence in a few days time and staff here at J&A Mitchell & Co are looking forward to welcoming our visitors from across the globe to our distilleries next week. Preparations are well underway in Campbeltown as all hands are on deck to ...