Malt Store: General view from S of hoppers and conveyors beneath malt bins.
SC 732260
Description Malt Store: General view from S of hoppers and conveyors beneath malt bins.
Date 1994
Catalogue Number SC 732260
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 62093
Scope and Content Malt store from south, Ardmore Distillery, Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire Ardmore Distillery was founded in 1898 by William Teacher's son, Adam, to produce whisky for blending. The whisky produced here continues to be used in Teacher's Highland Cream, and is also released in some single malt bottling. The distillery was modernised in the 1950s and 1970s, but still retains its traditional coal-fired stills. This shows the hoppers and conveyers below the malt bins. These can hold about 1,000 tonnes of malted barley. Until the 1970s the distillery used its own maltings, and took delivery of barley and coal from its own railway halt close by the distillery. Ardmore now buys in its malt from commercial maltsters. Malt whisky is produced by soaking barley and allowing it to germinate in the maltings before drying over peat fires in a kiln. The malted barley is then ground and mixed with water before fermentation and distillation into whisky. This is left to mature for at least three years in oak casks where the flavour develops further and the whisky takes on its famous golden colour. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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