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General view from NW of main block, including the two Tun Rooms, Mash House, Malt House and boiler House chimney. Digital image of B 74727 CN.

SC 736134

Description General view from NW of main block, including the two Tun Rooms, Mash House, Malt House and boiler House chimney. Digital image of B 74727 CN.

Date 9/6/1992

Catalogue Number SC 736134

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 74727 CN

Scope and Content View of Ben Nevis Distillery, Fort William, Highland Ben Nevis Distillery was founded in 1825 by 'Long John' MacDonald, and first produced a whisky known as 'Dew of Ben Nevis'. The site was bought by Joseph Hobbs in 1955, who installed a Coffey still to produce grain spirit. In 1989, Ben Nevis Distillery was bought by the Japanese company Nikka who revived the production of malt whisky. This shows the main building with Ben Nevis in the background. The 'Legend of the Dew of Ben Nevis' visitor centre is to the left of the complex. The two-storeyed, harled and painted building features simple porches over its doorways, with their sloping roofs resting on simple columns. A brick chimney indicates the position of the boiler within. Water used in the distillery is very cold and pure, coming as it does from the snow melting from nearby Ben Nevis. The water flows down to become the Allt a 'Mhuilinn (The Mill Burn) stream. Ben Nevis (meaning 'cloudy mountain') at 1344m, is the highest mountain in Britain. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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