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Penderyn Swansea Copperworks Distillery will be our third distillery in Wales. Our HQ is in the beautiful village of Penderyn, Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog) which opened in Sept 2000. And in May 2021 we opened our second distillery
in the stunning Victorian seaside resort of Llandudno, North Wales.

At 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.

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 made of copper.

The Visitor Centre Shop is now open. We will let you know when we open 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!

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.

If you book a tour or masterclass you'll be able to see the two 'Faraday' stills and the pair of pot stills, that will be installed in the
Swansea Distillery Hall.

Penderyn Whisky 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.