About Penderyn Swansea Copperworks Distillery
Penderyn's 3rd Distillery in Wales! The Visitor Centre Shop is now open. Tours are available - https://www.penderyn.wales/tours-swansea-copperworks/ - where you can visit the exhibition area, tasting bar, and also a 'copper tunnel' which will show you what copper smelting was like, but, of course, without the danger! Masterclasses are available from the 18th August - https://www.penderyn.wales/masterclass-swansea/
The magnificent building, where the Distillery Hall is now housed, was once the powerhouse of the Hafod & Morfa Copperworks, and later the canteen. The wonderful clock tower was gone, and the whole building was in a derelict state. However, it has been completely transformed!
We knew the site would be the perfect location for our distillery, bringing it back to life and returning copper to the site once again, as our stills are, of course, made of copper.
Distilling in Wales was 'a lost art', but in the late 1990s, in a pub in Hirwaun in the Welsh valleys, a group of friends chatted about establishing the first whisky distillery in Wales in over a century. They dreamt of creating a whisky as pure and precious as Welsh gold, represented today by Penderyn’s ‘gold seam’.
A unique copper single-pot still designed by Dr David Faraday, a relative of the great 19th-century scientist Michael Faraday, was installed which produces a spirit at an industry high of 92%, which means Penderyn’s whiskies are light, fruity and flavoursome. We have two 'Faraday' stills and a pair of pot stills installed in the Swansea Distillery Hall.
Penderyn Whisky is based in the village of Penderyn, but we also opened a distillery in Llandudno in May 2021. Penderyn has gained a worldwide reputation, exporting to over 50 countries, and winning over 100 gold awards en route, and we're very proud to be in Swansea.
