Penderyn (Perhaps the smallest still in the world ?)

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Penderyn Distillery is the only distillery in Wales and one of the smallest distilleries in the world. One of the few remaining independent distilleries, Penderyn takes its name from the old Welsh village in which it is located and nestles in the foothills of the ancient Brecon Beacons mountain range.

The Brecon Beacons National Park is an area of outstanding natural beauty famed for its breathtaking scenery, open moorland, clear rivers and tumultuous waterfalls.

UNESCO has recognised the region’s importance. The Fforest Fawr National Park, which lies within the Brecon Beacons and surrounds Penderyn, is one of only 53 Geoparks worldwide to exhibit "geological heritage of great significance”.
Fforest Fawr GeoparkMyth and folklore surround us. The Arthurian legend is alive and well, with two peaks of the Brecon Beacons together known as ‘Arthur’s Seat’. Another story, ‘The Shepherd of Myddfai’, tells how a young shepherd won and lost a fairy bride from Lyn y Fan Fach, the fairy lake of the Brecon Beacons.
 
Here we produce just one cask per day of the finest malted barley spirit, which, when matured, is recognised worldwide as one of the finest malt whiskies. The majority of our spirit goes into cask for ageing in our cellars. Minute quantities are diverted to craft our other award-winning products.
All exceptional whiskies bring together the crucial ingredients: the still, the wood and the water. If you take the time to read on about our products and process we are sure you will discover why, like Welsh gold, Penderyn Single Malt Whisky is so rare that it has to be on strict allocation to markets outside Wales. It is one of the rarest, finest and most delicate malt whiskies available.

From the time when our cooper goes into the sustainable American white oak forests to hand select trees from which our barrels are made through to the bottling line at the distillery where dedicated staff hand polish every bottle as they come off the line our commitment to quality is uncompromising.
 

The Still

Penderyn uses a unique design of still for its malted barley spirit. The still consists of a single copper pot beneath a tall rectifying multi-plate column, and was developed by Dr. David Faraday (a descendant of Sir Michael Faraday).

Whilst most Scottish and Irish distilleries would use a conventional two or three pot still system, the technology developed at Penderyn allows an extremely clean "flavourful" spirit to be produced from a single still.

Water:
Penderyn Distillery is located in the Brecon Beacons National Park and draws water exclusively from our own pure source in the carboniferous limestone deep below the distillery. This is the only water used in the distilling and blending process and it is a key ingredient in our malt whisky.  The same source provides some of the finest bottled mineral waters in the world.

The distillery sits above a cavernous aquifer that contains rock formations laid down around 340 million years ago. This aquifer holds water that filters down through the overlying basal grit into the limestone. The whole formation is described as thick-bedded and of fine to course-grained material. It was originally deposited in a shallow marine environment. Ancient weathered surfaces exist in parts of the formation, covered with thin, primordial soil in places where the rock was briefly higher than sea level before being submerged again