New Penderyn distillery at Swansea’s Copper Quarter announced
March 2013
The new Faraday replica still and pot stills arrive
June 2008
The Penderyn Distillery Visitor Centre opens to the public
1st October 2007
Launch of Merlyn, Brecon FIVE Vodka and Brecon Special Reserve Gin
9th November 2005
Penderyn is released in the US in New York
1st March 2005
Penderyn is launched in London
1st March 2004
Penderyn Single Malt Whisky launched by His Royal Highness, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales
1915
Welsh Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George brings in legislation which helps create a ‘premium‘ whisky business.
1903
Frongoch distillery closes and the building later becomes a POW camp for German POWs, and in 1916 for Irish Republican prisoners.
1889
The Welsh Whisky Distillery opens in Frongoch, Bala, North Wales