View from SE of Maltings and Kiln. Digital image of A 62062 CN.

Description View from SE of Maltings and Kiln. Digital image of A 62062 CN.

Date 1994

Catalogue Number SC 738424

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 62062 CN

Scope and Content View of malt loft and kiln from south-east, Glendronach Distillery, Aberdeenshire Glendronach Distillery was founded in 1826 by a consortium called the Glendronach Distillery Company. After a serious fire in 1837 the site was restored by Mr Walter Scott who had learned the trade at Teanininch Distillery. Glendronach was bought by Captain Charles Grant in 1920, sold to William Teachers & Sons in 1960, was mothballed in 1996 and re-opened in c.2002. This shows the malt loft, which is situated over the pend (left). It has louvred windows for ventilation, and is used to store the large amounts of malted barley required for whisky production. To the right can be the seen the pagoda roof of the malt kiln, which dries the malt over peated fires after germination on the malting floors. Malted barley is ground and combined with warm water to begin the fermentation process. The malt is drawn out of the worts (malt sugars), which are then cooled and yeast added to ferment the mixture further. This liquid, called wash, is then distilled from 'low wines' (once-distilled spirit) to unmatured whisky in pear-shaped copper vessels before maturation in wooden casks. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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