Still House (item 1 on site plan): elevated interior view showing the six copper pot stills, all of which are heated by steam coils. Digital image of D 39081.

Description Still House (item 1 on site plan): elevated interior view showing the six copper pot stills, all of which are heated by steam coils. Digital image of D 39081.

Date 25/11/1998

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

Catalogue Number SC 732328

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 39081

Scope and Content Still house, Dailuaine Distillery, Aberlour, Moray Dailuaine Distillery, founded in 1852, produces malt whisky which is also used as part of the Johnnie Walker blended whiskies. It was rebuilt in 1884-7, and after fires in 1917 and 1959-60, and continues to be modernised. A dark grains plant producing cattle feed from the by-products of the whisky-making process was added in 1965. This shows the still house with its row of copper pot stills. These are heated by steam coils to produce vapour which passes up the 'swan's neck' and across the lyne arm to a condensers on the other side of the wall (right). The 'heart' of the resulting spirit run is then matured in oak casks for three years or more. Small illicit stills, once commonplace in most Scottish farming communities, gave way to larger, commercial businesses such as this distillery after changes to the law in 1816 and 1823. Local legend has it that ghostly lights from such a smuggler's still on the hillside above Dailuaine are visible on stormy nights. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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