Comparative sections and plans of malt-barns at Adbeg and Port Ellen Distilleries.
SC 346447
Description Comparative sections and plans of malt-barns at Adbeg and Port Ellen Distilleries.
Catalogue Number SC 346447
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 10626
Scope and Content Section of malt-barn at Port Ellen, Islay, Argyll The malt barn at Port Ellen is typical of its kind. Inside, barley is stored, then soaked in water, spread out and allowed to germinate. The resulting green malt is dried in a kiln before being used to make whisky. The elevator lifts the barley onto the conveyor belt or 'barley band'. The barley bogie spreads it on the barley loft floor. The grain trickles through the chutes onto the barley band and back to the elevator. 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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