Water of Life - Glenlossie Traditional Cache
Water of Life - Glenlossie
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Glenlossie is one of the more attractive distilleries, with its white-harled buildings clustered beneath the grey slating of the roofs and the ever-watchful pagoda head of the old kiln. The site is actually a two-distillery complex, the other part being Mannochmore which was built just on 20 years ago.
Glenlossie was built in 1876 by a ‘man o’ many pairts’, as indeed many of the distillers of the time were. John Duff was an innkeeper at Lhanbryde and had also been manager of Glendronach distillery near Huntly. He chose his partners wisely, one being the local public prosecutor and the other the burgh surveyor. The distillery made full use of the Elgin-Perth railway line and had its own siding.
A great fire broke out in 1929 and one of the old fire engines that fought the blaze can still be seen at the distillery. It dates from the 1860s and was designed as a horse-drawn vehicle. The fire held things up for a time but development eventually continued. In 1960 electricity finally arrived to displace steam as the source of power and in 1962 a third pair of stills was added. Apart from their shape, a distinctive aspect of the stills is the purifiers which are fitted to the three spirit vessels. These cylindrical devices help refine the spirit, achieving the opposite effect to that of the Lomond stills used elsewhere to give deeper, heavier distillate.
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