OUT OF THE SHADOWS
“…we just wanted to go about our business, get our heads down…”
The team have a fascinating story to tell. The distillery is housed on Lochlea Farm, which was once owned by Robert Burns’ family, and on which Burns himself actually lived and worked from 1777-1784. Current owner Neil McGeoch gained planning permission in 2014 and the last six years have seen the farm’s existing buildings converted to make way for a state-of-the-art distillery. Now, it can produce around 200,000 litres of pure alcohol a year.
The man behind that liquid is
