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Milling |
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 This
map shows where the Mill House is in the Distillery: |
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 By a series of 1881 leather conveyor belts with buckets
built in to them, the grain is raised up to the top of the malt store, 20
metres up. |
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 An Archimedes screw delivers the grain in to the top of the
grain silos, to await the ‘milling’ |
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 Here, at the foot of the grain silos, is where another
Archimedes screw takes the malted barley to the Mill House. |
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 ‘The Dresser’. Here the pipe at the top right of the
picture feeds the revolving grated barrels with malted barley, to remove any
stones that might have got this far from damaging the precision rollers of
the mill. The dresser is believed to be from the beginning of the last
century. |
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 From
the dresser, the malted barley, having been weighed precisely by means of a
gimballed hopper and is tipped down this ‘slide’ in to the mill at a precise
rate for the running of the mill. |
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 This
is the Mill. Behind this plate are a series of precision positioned steel
rollers that will grind the grains of malted barley in to a flour, making it
easier to remove the sugars contained therein in the ‘mashing’ process. This
mill was built in about 1920. |
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 From
the Mill house, seen here on the right, the flour and some of the chaff –
now known as ‘grist’ is raised to the top of the Mill House by conveyor belt
buckets (from 1881), and then across in to the Mash House by Archimedes
Screw, seen here bridging the two buildings. |
