Ardbeg Distillery. Interior, view of barley-loft of East malt-barn.
SC 340756
Description Ardbeg Distillery. Interior, view of barley-loft of East malt-barn.
Catalogue Number SC 340756
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AG 10440
Scope and Content Interior of barley-loft of malt-barn at Ardbeg, Islay, Argyll The malt barn at Ardbeg is typical of its kind. It was built to process large batches of barley, turning them into malt. The barley is taken in through the door on the right. It trickles through the chutes onto the barley band which takes it to the elevator which lifts it to onto the barley band in the rafters. The barley bogie then spreads the barley on the loft floor. The system of elevator, barley band and bogie is needed because the stored grain must be kept dry and well aired before it is turned to malt by soaking it in the steeps and allowing it to germinate on the malting floor. It is then dried in the kiln. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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