'Liming the backs' at Edradour Distillery.
SC 340726
Description 'Liming the backs' at Edradour Distillery.
Date 1980
Catalogue Number SC 340726
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of PT 7141
Scope and Content Liming the backs in the tun room inside distillery building of Edradour Distillery, Pitlochry, Perthshire Edradour Distillery was founded in 1837 and was the last of the small farm distilleries. It was still operating on a small scale in the late 19th century, and employed all the traditional methods and equipment until the 1960s. This man is using a traditional method to sterilise this 1000-gallon washback; painting it with lime wash using a heather brush. The building has two washbacks like this. They are used to ferment the wash prior to fermentation. 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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