Interior. View of mash house looking down onto copper-topped mash tun.
C 19615 CN
Description Interior. View of mash house looking down onto copper-topped mash tun.
Date 9/1993
Catalogue Number C 19615 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 742444
Scope and Content Mash tun in the mash house, Rosebank Distillery, Camelon Road, Falkirk Rosebank Distillery was founded c.1817 and restored and converted in the 1840s by James Rankine. His son, R W Rankine rebuilt the distillery in 1864, with ownership passing to the Rosebank Distillery Ltd in 1894. The maltings were demolished c.1970, and the site mothballed in 1993. This shows the top of the mash tun in the mash house. This large vessel is used for mixing together the ground malted barley (grist) with hot water to extract the sugars in a fermentable solution called 'wort'. The process creates a waste product called draff, which is sold off as cattle feed. The wort is cooled and fermented with yeast, which turns the sugars to alcohol. This 'wash' has the strength of strong beer, and is sent to the stills for double distillation into spirit. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Colour negative
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