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Interior. Early type of sparging arm. Digital image of A 33435.
SC 738415
Description Interior. Early type of sparging arm. Digital image of A 33435.
Date 1984
Catalogue Number SC 738415
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 33435
Scope and Content Early type of sparging arm in mash house, Glenkinchie Distillery, Pencaitland, East Lothian Glenkinchie Distillery was established in 1837 by brothers John and George Rate, who went bankrupt in 1853 leading to the closure of the site and its reuse as a cowshed. In 1880 the Glen Kinchie Distillery Company rebuilt the premises, and production began once more. The floor maltings were last used in 1968, and now house a museum of malting. The distillery continues to produce whisky for Haig's blends. This shows the sparging arm in the mash house now part of the maltings museum. This device would have been fitted below the lid of the mash tun where malted barley is mixed with hot water to create 'wort', a fermentable sugar solution. It was used to rinse the sugars from the grain, a process known as 'sparging'. The wort is then cooled, fermented with yeast and the resulting 'wash' distilled into spirit. This must then be left to mature in bonded (locked) warehouses for at least three years until it has matured and taken on colour and flavour from the oak casks. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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