News: Echlinville Distillery plans £5m malting site [The Spirits Business]

“Northern Ireland’s Echlinville Distillery will invest £5 million (US$6.1m) in the restoration of a former maltings to enable it to produce local barley at scale.

The Irish whiskey producer has purchased the Ards Maltings building, located just outside Newtownards in County Down, which will be refurbished for malting on site. Ards was once one of the largest malting houses in Ireland.

Based in Kircubbin, Echlinville said the restoration project would make it the only Irish distillery with the capacity to produce, malt, ferment and distil their spirit from field to glass.”

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