Interior. Still House: view from SW at lower level of fireboxes beneath the 4 stills.

Description Interior. Still House: view from SW at lower level of fireboxes beneath the 4 stills.

Date 1994

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

Catalogue Number C 62017 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 738443

Scope and Content View of still house fireboxes from south-west, 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 a row of fireboxes within pale brickwork arches. Each fire features double doors with ventilation holes, and ash disposal hoppers. These are used to heat the wash from the fermentation stage until the alcohol vaporizes and is condensed into unmatured spirit. Glendronach retains its traditional floor maltings where barley is germinated; a pagoda-headed malt-kiln, where the malt is dried; wooden washbacks; and coal-fired stills. It also features a colony of rooks (known as a 'clamour'), which are traditionally said to bring good luck to a distillery. This belief goes back to the days of illicit distilling, when the alarm call of the birds would warn of the approach of the exciseman. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Colour negative

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