Aberfeldy Distillery Elevated interior view from E in Still House, showing 2 of 4 stills. Digital image of C 35460 CN.

Description Aberfeldy Distillery Elevated interior view from E in Still House, showing 2 of 4 stills. Digital image of C 35460 CN.

Date 1994

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

Catalogue Number SC 732338

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 35460 CN

Scope and Content Stills and condensers in still house from east, Aberfeldy Distillery, Aberfeldy, Perth & Kinross Aberfeldy Distillery was founded in 1896 by the brothers John and Thomas Dewar to produce whisky suitable for blending. It was owned by the Distillers Company Ltd from 1925 and Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd from 1930 before being substantially modernised 1972-3 for John Dewar & Sons Ltd. The site boasted a direct rail link to Dewar's warehouses in Perth until the 1960s. This shows two of the four copper stills (right) in the still house with their lyne arm passing from right to left into the tall copper condensers (left). It is here that the wash from the fermentation process is heated in boilers and the resulting steam condensed into 'low wines' (once-distilled spirit). This liquid is then distilled once more producing the spirit which, when matured, becomes Scotch whisky. Malt and grain whisky must then be aged in oak casks for a legal minimum of three years. These casks may have previously contained either Oloroso sherry or American Bourbon. Maturation in these wooden casks gives the whisky its flavour and finished appearance, and takes place in cool, earth-floored bonded warehouses. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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