Distillery Name : Yetts of Muckhart Distillery (Yetts Distillery)
Distillery Area : Highland, Scotland
Product : Malt Whisky
Operated Between : 1817 - 1832
Current Status : Inactive
Location : Yetts o' Muckhart, Perthshire (now Clackmannanshire).
Map Grid Reference : NO005014 (general)
Current Owner : None
Notes : There are no mentions of the distillery in the OS maps of the area from later in the 19th century, so the exact location remains, for now, unknown.
Timeline
1817 - The Yetts of Muckhart Distillery was opened, registered to A. Balfour & Co. At some point however, John H. Rennie left the firm.
1819 - Distilling stops.
1820/21 - John H. Rennie is now the registered owner in 1821, and is accounted for as having produced 4176 gallons of spirits at Yetts between November 1820 and February 1821. The wash still size was given as 260 gallons.
1825 - Distilling was re-started by Mr. B. F. Mylne, producing 33,415 gallons of spirit in the year 5th January 1825 to 5th January 1826.
1826 - 4,255 gallons of spirit were produced between 5th January 1826 and 5th July 1826, and just 581 gallons of spirit in the quarter to 10th October 1826, 11,225 gallons for the year to that date. No data was given for the six months to 5th April 1827.
1826 - The distillery is thought to have closed again late in 1826.
1831 - Mr J. W. Rennie revived the distillery, but he was sequestrated in 1832 and Yetts of Muckhart Distillery was closed.
1832 - J. W. Rennie sequestrated and Yetts of Muckhart Distillery was closed.
References
The Scotch Whisky Industry Record - H. Charles Craig, 1994.
Excise accounts 1820/21, 1825/26 and 1827.