Bunnahabhainn Distillery, Islay. Tun-room, upper level showing wash-backs (stone built) and movable wooden lids (note motors for turning 'switchers' within).
AG 10615
Description Bunnahabhainn Distillery, Islay. Tun-room, upper level showing wash-backs (stone built) and movable wooden lids (note motors for turning 'switchers' within).
Date 1980
Catalogue Number AG 10615
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 423507
Scope and Content Upper level of tun-room, Bunnahabhainn Distillery, Islay, Argyll Bunnahabhainn was built in 1881 and is a fine example of a purpose-built distillery, designed for maximum efficiency. The tun room contains large vats or 'washbacks'. These are filled with wort mixed with yeast and allowed to ferment. Many modern distilleries still use wooden washbacks like these because they are good for keeping the mixture warm. 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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