Lagavulin Distillery, Filling Store. Detail of cask-filling unit.
AG 11546
Description Lagavulin Distillery, Filling Store. Detail of cask-filling unit.
Date 1981
Catalogue Number AG 11546
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 416672
Scope and Content Cask-filling unit, filling store, Lagavulin Distillery, Islay, Argyll Lagavulin is an example of the type of distillery that gradually developed after early 19th-century changes in the law made commercial distilling easier. This is the head of the device used to fill sherry casks with pure whisky prior to maturation. To make whisky, barley is allowed to germinate into malt. This is dried, milled and mixed with hot water to make wort which is fermented with yeast. The resulting wash is distilled to produce whisky which must then be matured in casks. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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