Longmorn Distillery, Interior View showing stills and drive to rummagers
SC 519638
Description Longmorn Distillery, Interior View showing stills and drive to rummagers
Date 20/9/1977
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 519638
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Longmorn-Glenlivet Distillery, Morayshire This large distillery was built at the beginning of the whisky boom of the 1890s by the Longmorn-Glenlivet Distillery Co. In 1898 it amalgamated with the nearby newly-built Benriach-Glenlivet Distillery, which however closed in 1900. This view shows one of the wash stills in the original 1894 stillhouse, with the belt drive to its rummager at the back. There is a complex arrangement of pulleys and belts to drive all the rummagers in this stillhouse from the waterwheel through the wall Rummagers are copper chains which turn inside flame-heated wash stills to stop the build-up of deposits on the still bottoms, thus preventing damage to the still from overheating, and spoiling the flavour of the spirit ultimately produced. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H77/98/6
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