Falkirk

George Stewart, whose family had run local businesses for more than 50 years, decided to bring whisky distilling back to Falkirk; the company says his interest grew from bottling natural spring water, and that a water diviner found the artesian well on the site. Planning was slowed by the site's closeness to the Antonine Wall, and the pandemic added delays. Whisky Magazine reported that the distillery became fully operational in July 2020.

The company says the family built it from their own resources with local labour. Its first single malt, 640 bottles of unpeated whisky aged over three years, was released in December 2023, the first 100 by auction. Companies House shows the company incorporated in 2007 under the name Rosebank Whisky Distillery (Falkirk) Company and lists members of the Stewart family as its controllers; George Stewart's daughter Fiona now leads the business.

The distillery stands on Grandsable Road near Polmont, east of Falkirk, halfway between Edinburgh and Glasgow, in the Lowland region. The company says the site is bounded by the Antonine Wall, a Scheduled Ancient Monument and part of a World Heritage Site, with the Roman fort at Mumrills to the west. The Kelpies, two 30-metre horse-head sculptures by the Forth and Clyde Canal, stand nearby and give their name to some releases. Water comes from an artesian well beneath the distillery.

The two copper stills and the copper-topped mash tun came from Caperdonich, a Speyside distillery that had been demolished; Whisky Magazine describes them as reconditioned. The company gives the mash tun as 4.5 tonnes and the fermenters as 34,000 litres, with a modern Bühler malt intake. The family states a potential capacity of more than a million litres of alcohol a year. Casks lie three high on the floor of a brick dunnage warehouse beside the distillery, built by hand over six months. Releases have been matured in oloroso sherry hogsheads and first-fill bourbon casks from Heaven Hill.

George Stewart has said the aim is a light Lowland malt that appeals to many drinkers. The distillery manager described the new make as sweet, floral and herbal, with pear, mild spice and hazelnut. The company's notes for its single malt speak of dried fruit, honey and vanilla, and it has since released single casks at cask strength from sherry and bourbon casks to mark five years of production.