Whisky has returned to the Speight’s Brewery

Saturday, 7 March 2020

Brewers and distillers rekindle their history in Dunedin

By Jacob McSweeny

The New Zealand Whisky Co expects to produce some of its product out of the Speight’s Brewery in Dunedin from about June this year. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH

 

Whisky has returned to the Speight’s Brewery. The New Zealand Whisky Collection and Lion NZ have come to an agreement to allow the Oamaru distillers to produce some of its whisky out of the Speight’s Brewery in Dunedin.
NZ Whisky Collection founder Greg Ramsey said the company had been planning to increase production since buying whisky stocks from the old Seagram’s distillery in 2010.
"It’s always been our intention to relaunch and redistribute those whiskies and then start that production again........
https://www.odt.co.nz/business/local-business/brewers-and-distillers-rekindle-their-history-dunedin


A Facebook comment:

Lindsay Dow In an earlier life I had to spend about 3 months measuring up that brick building from foundations to roof then draw up the plans. Previous plans had been lost.
I also got a trip to DB bottling plant in Auckland so that the Speight bottling plant could be built across Rattray Street.
I drew up the engineers plans for the firm of architects I worked for at that time - Fraser Oakley and Pinfold.