Still House: view from W at lower level showing group of stills with welded steel cladding around fireboxes. Digital image of C 62090 CN.

Description Still House: view from W at lower level showing group of stills with welded steel cladding around fireboxes. Digital image of C 62090 CN.

Date 1994

Catalogue Number SC 732298

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 62090 CN

Scope and Content Fireboxes in still house from west, 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 bottlings. The distillery was modernised in the 1950s and 1970s, but still retains its traditional coal-fired stills. This shows the fireboxes, which are fed with coal by a system of hoppers. These are used to heat the wash in the stills until it vaporizes, passing over the lyne arm of the still (visible top left) into vertical condensers. Ardmore originally had only two stills, but now houses an impressive row of eight. Distilleries often attribute the special character of their whisky to the shape of the copper stills in which it was produced. Some companies even replicate the dents and flaws in the original when creating new vessels. Ardmore's new stills (each with an equal capacity of 15,000 litres) are exact copies of the originals in order to achieve a consistent product. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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