English Whisky
| Type | Single malt English whisky |
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| Manufacturer | St. Austell Brewery & Healey's Cornish Cyder Farm |
| Country of origin | England |
| Introduced | 2003 |
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| Type | Single malt English whisky |
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| Manufacturer | The English Whisky Co. |
| Country of origin | England |
| Introduced | 2009 |
English whisky is whisky produced in England. There are currently at least six distilleries producing English whisky. Though England is not very well known for making whisky there were distillers previously operating in London, Liverpool and Bristol until the late 19th century, after which production of English single malt whisky ceased until 2003.
England, like Scotland, has a history of producing single malt whisky. However, the production of English single malt whisky ceased around 1905 with the closure of Lea Valley Distillery by the Distillers Company Limited, one of the forerunners of Diageo.
In the 1887 book The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom by Alfred Barnard, the following English distilleries were listed:
In 2003, St Austell Brewery & Healey Cyder Farm announced the first production of a "Cornish" single malt whisky in 300 years. Although no substantial evidence exists that whisky was ever produced in Cornwall, it was the first commercial whisky to be produced in England in almost a century. The partnership released a seven-year-old whisky in September 2011.
The English Whisky Co. Ltd, founded by farmer James Nelstrop in 2006, started production and released a three-year-old product in 2009. This has been followed by sequentially numbered Chapter bottlings with varied alcohol by volume and flavour profiles.
The Adnams Brewery in October 2010 began production of vodka and gin, but in 2011 started to lay down stock of new spirit to be aged into single malt whisky.
In 2013 The London Distillery Company began production of the first single malt whisky in London since Lea Valley Distillery closed in 1903.
Two other English distilleries also producing whisky as of 2014 are The Lakes Distillery and The Cotswolds Distillery.
In 2003 two of Cornwall’s drinks producers, St Austell Brewery and Healey’s Cyder Farm, announced that they had begun to produce the first whisky in England for almost a century.
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