Bruichladdich Distillery, Islay. Reconstruction drawing of original layout of Bruichladdich Distillery c.1900, including distillery complex, malt-loft and malting floor of North West malt-barn, maltin ...

Description Bruichladdich Distillery, Islay. Reconstruction drawing of original layout of Bruichladdich Distillery c.1900, including distillery complex, malt-loft and malting floor of North West malt-barn, malting floor of South East malt-barn and distillery building. Insc. 'GDH'

Date c. 1980

Catalogue Number DC 10625

Category Prints and Drawings

Copies SC 346435, SC 346434, SC 346436, A 57330, SC 346432, SC 346433

Scope and Content Reconstruction of Bruichladdich Distillery, Islay, Argyll Bruichladdich Distillery was built in the 1880s. It is a good example of a distillery built in one phase to a carefully thought out plan. The main parts of the complex were: malt barns for germination (b, c); a kiln for drying green malt (e); a mill room (g); a mash house for extracting wort (j); a tun room for fermentation (k); and a still house for distillation (l). To make whisky, barley is allowed to germinate into green malt. This is dried, milled, and mixed with hot water to make wort which is extracted and fermented with yeast. The results are distilled to produce raw whisky which is then matured in casks. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Ink, triplex

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