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Lagavulin Distillery, Old Malt Barn. Mono-rail wicker basket system (travellers) for conveying steeped barley from steeps onto malting floor.
AG 10482
Description Lagavulin Distillery, Old Malt Barn. Mono-rail wicker basket system (travellers) for conveying steeped barley from steeps onto malting floor.
Date 1980
Catalogue Number AG 10482
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 340744
Scope and Content Detail basket-traveller at Lagavulin, Islay, Argyll Lagavulin is an example of the kind of distillery that gradually developed after early 19th-century changes in the law made commercial distilling easier. Barley was steeped in water and then, using baskets on rails like this one, spread on the malting floor to germinate and turn into malt. The same baskets were used to carry the malt to the kiln to dry. To make whisky, barley is allowed to germinate into malt. This is dried, milled, and mixed with hot water to make wort which is extracted and fermented with yeast. The resulting wash is distilled to produce raw whisky which is then matured in casks. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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