Wednesday 6th July 2022
From the Newsletter of The Friends Of Warminster Maltings, Edition 41, 6th July 2022:
Full Of Eastern Promise
This very ordinary picture of a shipping container full of Warminster Malt, is not so ordinary as far as Warminster Maltings is concerned. Because this particular container is the very first consignment of malt we have loaded for shipping to Japan!
This 20 tonnes order is destined to a single customer, a distillery, whose prompt and professional negotiations were a positive delight to respond to. More than that, they have paid us in sterling, and they lodged the money in our account ahead of our loading the container. That is particularly impressive when you consider the container will take up to 10 weeks to reach its destination!
Our customer has advised us that this 20 tonnes of malt will only serve 6 weeks of production, so we are hoping, if they are happy with our products (we sent them three different malts), that this could become a new regular customer.
This new business is all part of a trend that we are seeing, an emerging and expanding demand for distilling malts from new distilleries. Particularly here in England where we are witnessing a whole swathe of ‘new builds’, not least on our doorstep in Wiltshire. They are all quite adamant that they have to have local barley, and ‘floor made’ malt. In fact, I believe our presence is a factor in the choice of location for some of these enterprises. Who knows, 10 years from now, the countryside surrounding Warminster could even become known as “Whisky Valley�
Robin Appel.
www.warminster-malt.co.uk/edition-41-friends-of-warminster-maltings/