Invergordon Distillery, Maize Mills General View
SC 572613
Description Invergordon Distillery, Maize Mills General View
Date 10/5/1980
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 572613
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Invergordon Grain and Ben Wyvis Malt distilleries, Invergordon, Ross and Cromarty (Highland council area) Invergordon Distillery was founded in 1959 by The Invergordon Distilleries Ltd, a company formed by Provost Grigor of Inverness and Frank Thomson, a local chartered accountant, to counter unemployment following closure of a naval base. This view shows the maize mills for Invergordon Distillery, which crushed the maize used in making grain whisky, ready for cooking to prepare the starch in the grain for breaking down into fermentable sugars by enzymes in malt. As built Invergordon had a single Coffey continuous still; two more were added in 1963, and a fourth large continuous still was installed in 1978. Ben Wyvis malt distillery operated within the complex from 1965 to 1977. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H80/69/5
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