View of interior.

Description View of interior.

Date 1963

Catalogue Number PB 610

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 760073

Scope and Content Interior of brew house, Traquair House, Scottish Borders This shows the open-topped copper boiler in the house brewery, which is used to gently boil the 'wort' (the sugary product of the mashing process where ground, malted barley is mixed with spring water). It is stirred using the wooden paddle, and run off into the shallow tank (right). Hops are added to the mixture before it is cooled, fermented and put into casks for maturation for several weeks. Traquair House brewery was founded in 1965 by the 20th Laird of Traquair, Peter Maxwell Stuart, who decided to restore the 18th-century brew house in the north service wing, after discovering its vessels and utensils were still in good condition. The brewery would have originally produced ale for the estate workers. Traquair is the oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland, with its origins in the 10th century. It was the site of a royal hunting lodge in the 1200s, but the house as seen today is based around a c.1512 tower-house with many later additions. The flanking service wings were built in 1695 to designs by architect James Smith (c.1645-1731), who also designed the wrought-iron screens round the courtyard in 1698. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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