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    Balvenie Malt Master

    Kelsey McKechnie

    Balvenie Malt Master, The Balvenie

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    Balvenie Malt Master

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    i. Biography

    Kelsey McKechnie joined William Grant & Sons in 2014 as a technical graduate at Girvan and was appointed apprentice malt master at The Balvenie in 2018 at the age of 26. She completed a six-year apprenticeship under David Stewart MBE and took the Malt Master role in 2022, becoming only the third Malt Master in The Balvenie's history.

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