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Publication Account
Date 2009
Event ID 606686
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/606686
Kilbagie and Kennetpans Distilleries were developed by two brothers, James and John Stein in 18th century, the distilleries reaching their peak in the 1780s.
The Kennetpans remains as it was at its abandonment in 1825. The excise duty paid by the two distilleries in the 1770s was in excess of the 'the whole of the land tax for Sciotland at that date'.
The 'first Bolton and Watt steam engine erected in Scotland at Kennetpans Distillery' is noted by Stewart. The canal of 1780 and the later wagonway linked Kennetpans and Kilbagie. Stewart also states that one of the 'first continuous stills...was installed and Kilbagie' presumably soon after its invention in 1826 (by Robert Stein). Thehis still design was later refined by Aeneas Coffey in 1831.The measures of excessive customs barriers to trading Scottish whisky in England led to both distilleries going bankrupt, although Kilbagie did carry on as a whicky distillery.
E J D Stewart 2009
