Kimbland distillery

Kimbland distillery was established by Sanday resident Sebastian Hadfield-Hyde. It was incorporated as a company in August 2017, distilling its first products in 2020, and reportedly began maturing its first Scotch whisky in 2023. The distillery uses an Orcadian barley known as bere, which has been grown in the Orkney Islands since the Neolithic period. In 2023, the Deerness distillery in Deerness, Mainland announced that it would become the first new Scotch whisky distillery in Orkney since Scapa distillery opened in 1885, however this claim was challenged by Hadfield-Hyde, as Kimbland distillery had reportedly been maturing their first batch of Scotch whisky months earlier than Deerness…