Maltings: detail of typical window on 1st floor, showing adjustable wooden louvres. Digital image of C 62029.

Description Maltings: detail of typical window on 1st floor, showing adjustable wooden louvres. Digital image of C 62029.

Date 1994

Catalogue Number SC 738434

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 62029

Scope and Content View of window on first floor of maltings, 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 one of the windows set into the whitewashed stone rubble walls of the maltings. It is fitted with adjustable wooden louvres to allow good ventilation for the barley germinating on the floor. Traditional maltings like this example are increasingly rare in distilleries, with many now using commercially produced malt. Glendronach retains its floor maltings where barley is germinated; a pagoda-headed malt kiln, where the malt is dried, wooden washbacks; and coal-fired stills. It also features a colony of rooks (known as a 'clamour'), which are traditionally said to bring good luck to a distillery. This belief goes back to the days of illicit distilling, when the alarm call of the birds would warn of the approach of the exciseman. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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