LOCH KATRINE ADELPHI DISTILLERY BUILT 1826 BY CHARLES AND DAVID GRAY ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER CLYDE JUST SOUTH OF VICTORIA BRIDGE ON THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE GORBALS
1840’S
ANDREW USHER PERFECTS THE ART OF BLENDING, BECOMING THE FATHER OF THE MODERN WHISKY INDUSTRY
1853
WILLIAM GLADSTONE PASSES A LAW ALLOWING SCOTCH WHISKY TO BE MATURED TAX-FREE UNTIL READY FOR SALE. PUNCH MAGAZINE CELEBRATES WITH THE CARTOON OF THE DANCEY MAN
1880
OWNERSHIP OF ADELPHI CHANGES TO MESSRS A WALKER AND CO, OWNERS OF TWO EXISTING DISTILLERIES IN LIVERPOOL AND LIMERICK. WALKER AND CO INJECT NEW CAPITAL AND EXPAND THE WORKS TO INCLUDE THE MAKING OF GRAIN SPIRIT AS WELL AS MALT. NEW COFFEY STILL INSTALLED
1886
COFFEY STILL AND FOUR POT STILLS ARE ALL IN FULL PRODUCTION AND LOCH KATRINE ADELPHI BECOMES ONE OF THE LARGEST DISTILLERIES IN SCOTLAND WITH AN ANNUAL OUTPUT OF OVER 500,000 GALLONS
1903
ADELPHI BOUGHT BY THE DISTILLERS COMPANY
1906
THE GREAT GORBALS DISASTER - ONE OF THE COLOSSAL WASHBACKS IN THE DISTILLERY COLLAPSES, ENGULFING THE NEIGHBOURING STREET IN A TIDAL WAVE OF ALCOHOL AND RESULTING IN FATALITY
1907
POT STILLS CEASE PRODUCTION OF MALT WHISKY BUT GRAIN DISTILLING AND CASK MATURATION CONTINUE
1932
COFFEY STILLS CEASE PRODUCTION OF GRAIN WHISKY
1971
FINAL DEMOLITION OF THE LOCH KATRINE ADELPHI DISTILLERY
1984
GLASGOW CENTRAL MOSQUE ERECTED ON FORMER SITE OF ADELPHI DISTILLERY
1993
JAMIE WALKER (THE GREAT-GRANDSON OF ARCHIBALD WALKER) REVIVES THE ADELPHI NAME AS AN INDEPENDENT BOTTLER IN ORDER TO EXPLORE THE MYSTERIES OF MALT WHISKY AND TO MAKE A LIMITED NUMBER OF RARE, WELL-AGED AND TOP QUALITY MALT WHISKIES AVAILABLE TO THE DISCERNING WHISKY ENTHUSIAST
1994
JAMIE WALKER ACQUIRES COPYRIGHT FOR PUNCH MAGAZINE’S CARTOON OF WILLIAM GLADSTONE AND THE DANCEY MAN IS OFFICIALLY ADOPTED AS ADELPHI’S MASCOT
2003
JAMIE APPROACHED BY KEITH FALCONER
AND HIS NEIGHBOUR IN ARGYLL, DONALD HOUSTON, ON A RECOMMENDATION, IN ORDER TO BUY A HOGSHEAD OF WHISKY. THEY WERE SO IMPRESSED THAT THEY ENDED UP BUYING THE COMPANY
2003
THE LEGENDARY RELEASE OF "THE WHISKY THAT CANNOT BE NAMED"
A SINGLE EX OLOROSO BUTT FROM AN UNDISCLOSED SPEYSIDE DISTILLERY, DISTILLED IN 1953 AND BOTTLED BY ADELPHI AT 50 YEARS OLD
2004
ALEX BRUCE, DESCENDANT OF ANDREW USHER SR, JOINS ADELPHI AND BEGINS TO GROW THE ADELPHI NAME AMONG WHISKY CONNOISSEURS AROUND THE WORLD AS A PURVEYOR OF RARE AND EXCEPTIONAL SINGLE CASKS
2007
BREATH OF THE ANGELS SINGLE CASK SERIES IS LAUNCHED WITH "BREATH OF THE ISLES, ISLAY, HIGHLANDS AND SPEYSIDE"
2007
FIRST THOUGHTS OF BUILDING A DISTILLERY IN ORDER TO COMPLETE THE FULL CIRCLE AND SERVICE THE EVER-GROWING DEMAND FOR ADELPHI’S WHISKIES. FEASIBILITY STUDIES BEGIN
2009
THE DALES SERIES LAUNCHED WITH "FASCADALE", FOLLOWED BY "LIDDESDALE", "LAUDALE" AND "GLENBORRODALE".
NAMED AFTER LOCAL PLACES IN ARDNAMURCHAN AND MORVERN, THEY ALLOWED ADELPHI TO VENTURE INTO SMALL BATCH SINGLE & BLENDED MALT RELEASES
2010
COMPLETION OF ADELPHI'S NEW BOTTLING AND LOGISTICS WAREHOUSE IN FIFE
2012
PLANNING PERMISSION GRANTED
2013
FIRST GROUND BROKEN AT THE DISTILLERY SITE AT GLENBEG.
SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION OF GROUNDWORKS IN THE PRESENCE OF HSH PRINCE ALBERT OF MONACO
2014
FIRST SPIRIT PRODUCED AT ARDNAMURCHAN DISTILLERY.
ARDNAMURCHAN DISTILLERY OFFICIALLY OPENED BY HRH THE PRINCESS ROYAL ON 25TH JULY 2014
2015
ADELPHI'S FUSION RANGE OF INTERNATIONAL BLENDED MALT WHISKY IS LAUNCHED WITH "THE GLOVER"
NAMED AFTER THOMAS BLAKE GLOVER, THE SCOTTISH SAMURAI, IT WAS A BLEND OF MALT WHISKY FROM LONGMORN (SCOTLAND) AND HANYU (JAPAN)
THE FUSION RELEASES HAVE CONTINUED WITH INDIA, NETHERLANDS, AUSTRALIA AND SEVERAL MORE FROM JAPAN
ALL OF THEM ARE NAMED AFTER SCOTS WHO HAVE BEEN INFLUENTIAL IN THE BLENDING COUNTRY
2016
ADELPHI LAUNCHES THE FIRST EVER BOTTLING FROM ITS OWN DISTILLERY
BOTTLED AS A MATURE SPIRIT DRINK, THE 2016/AD (STANDING FOR ANNO DOMINI & ARDNAMURCHAN DISTILLERY) THE FIRST RELEASE OF 2,500 BOTTLES SOLD OUT OVERNIGHT
2017, 2018, 2019/AD ALL FOLLOWED SUCCESSFULLY
