Tun Room: view from SSE, showing 9 wooden washbacks. Digital image of C 62026 CN.

Description Tun Room: view from SSE, showing 9 wooden washbacks. Digital image of C 62026 CN.

Date 1994

Catalogue Number SC 738450

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 62026 CN

Scope and Content View of tun room from south, Glendronach Distillery, Aberdeenshire Glendronach Distillery was established in 1826 by a consortium called the Glendronach Distillery Company. After a fire in 1837, ownership passed to Walter Scott, Captain Charles Grant in 1920, William Teachers & Sons in 1960 (who added two more stills) and finally to Allied Distilleries Ltd who re-opened it in c.2002 after its temporary closure in 1996. This shows the tun room with its nine wooden vessels known a washbacks. These are used to ferment the 'wort' (malt sugar solution) with yeast. The reaction of the yeast on the wort causes the mixture to bubble up violently, creating froth which is contained by the wooden lids of the washbacks. Glendronach retains its traditional 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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