Hillside Distillery, Maltings
Maltings (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Hillside Distillery, Maltings
Classification Maltings (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Glenesk Maltings; Montrose Distillery
Canmore ID 83380
Site Number NO76SW 37.01
NGR NO 7165 6145
NGR Description Centred NO 7165 6145
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/83380
- Council Angus
- Parish Montrose
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO76SW 37.01 centred 7156 6151
The drum maltings was opened in 1968 and enlarged in 1973.
M S Moss and J R Hume 1981
Malt, the product of the malting process where the sugar content of grain is maintained by soaking the grain, causing germination (converting strarch to sugar) and then heating the grain to stop the process, is mostly used in distilling and brewing. Floor, Saladin box and drum maltings are methods whereby malting is carried out. Drum maltings, the most reently devloped of the methods, involves turning the germinating grain in air-conditioned drums.
Trinder, 1992
Photographed in 1996 as part of an ongoing RCAHMS project to photographically record representative examples of structures connected with the Scottish Whisky industry, in this case a relatively modern bulk malting operation.
Information from RCAHMS (MMD), 20th December 2006.
