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 | | | Ugly Betty (at Bruichladdich)
Skrevet af: MacNiels til Fredag den 19. Feb 2010 - kl. 13:48
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På Bruichladdich er de ved at installere en ny Lomond still der har fået navnet Ugly Betty. Denne still bliver den 5. hos Bruichladdich.
- A Lomond still was an experimental cross between a Coffey and a pot still, designed to create more character and variety of styles of spirit by imitating the effect that different lengths of still ‘neck’ would have.
Developed after the Second World War as a cunning way to meet the growing demand for single malts, it could provide in a one-stop-shop still, different flavours and styles in an economical way.
It was designed by chemical engineer Alistair Cunningham and draftsman Arthur Warren in 1955 - neither of whom can have been great aesthetes - so that the thick column-like neck could have an extra removable section inserted.
One section housed three rectifying plates, or baffles, that increased or decreased the reflux action. The plates, like Roman blinds, could be ‘opened’ in varying degrees from a horizontal to the vertical position.
Correspondingly, the removable neck sections could lengthen or shorten the height of the neck, thus varying the angle of the lyne arm - upward for a slightly lighter whisky, downward for a heavier one.
The first Lomond, a 11,600 litre capacity spirit still built by Ramsden, was in place by 1959 at Inverleven. This was the functional single malt distillery shoe-horned in to a utilitarian red brick building, tucked away in a corner of the ginormous Dumbarton grain distillery complex, on the confluence of the Clyde and Leven rivers.
Inverleven spirit was made on two regular pot stills. Lomond spirit, named after the near by loch, was made in the quirky designed new spirit still - spirit still number 2 - that shared the condenser of spirit still number 1. The new name stuck.
Pairs, both wash and spirit, were then installed at two other distilleries to produce a secondary spirit: Glenburgie (Glencraig) and Miltonduff (Mosstowie). The last Lomond still produced was a wash still at Scapa.
In August 1966 the still had a new steam heating element inserted with modified steam condensate piping, and in 1975 Blairs of Glasgow installed a new base to the still
Rationalisation, as a result of the 1981/2 recession, forced the labour intensive Lomond stills - the rectifying plates needed constantly cleaning - to being dismantled and consigned to history.
Only the spirit still at Inverleven, last used in 1985, and the wash still at Scapa (de-Lomondised to a standard pot still some thirty years earlier) were left in place.
Both distilleries were closed down in 1992. While Scapa would reopen a decade later in 2004, that same year Inverleven bit the dust - literally - under a ball and chain. But not before we nipped in and removed the Lomond.
True to its founding innovative principal, it is being fitted with Jim’s uniquely designed new neck section, Jim’s “Silver Gattling”.
Thus fittingly, the first shall be last: the original, now the only authentic Lomond in existence, lives to fight another day; but she’s certainly no oil painting, our Ugly Betty.
Se flere billeder af Lomond still hos Bruichladdich
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