View from S across yard to Kiln, and N end of Maltings, showing kiln and steaming ventilator in corner.

Description View from S across yard to Kiln, and N end of Maltings, showing kiln and steaming ventilator in corner.

Date 1994

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number C 62038 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 738427

Scope and Content View of kiln and maltings from south, Glendronach Distillery, Aberdeenshire Glendronach Distillery was founded in 1826 by a consortium called the Glendronach Distillery Company. After a serious fire in 1837 the site was restored by Mr Walter Scott who had learned the trade at Teanininch Distillery. Glendronach was bought by Captain Charles Grant in 1920, sold to William Teachers & Sons in 1960, was mothballed in 1996 and re-opened in c.2002. This shows the distinctive pagoda-roofed malt kiln, above the rubble buildings in the maltings courtyard. It is here that the grains of barley are soaked and allowed to germinate spread out on a floor, whilst being turned regularly with rakes. Once it has sprouted it is dried in the kiln over peated fires. Malted barley is ground and combined with warm water to begin the fermentation process. The malt is drawn out of the worts (malt sugars), which are then cooled and yeast added to ferment the mixture further. This liquid, called wash, is then distilled from 'low wines' (once-distilled spirit) to unmatured whisky in pear-shaped copper vessels before maturation in wooden casks. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Colour negative

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