[MM-MALTS-L] Old Macallan - Some more elements

[Nico Spiegel]

Here's still more information, from the website www.whisky-news.com:

Stills: 5 Wash and 10 Spirit stills in the new stillhouse and 2 Wash stills and 4 Spirit stills in the old stillhouse.

The distillery was rebuilt in the 1950s, including a new still house with two wash stills and three spirit stills, all with shell-in-tube condensers (instead of worm tubes, 1956/57), as well as new warehouses with one build every year. During this expansion, the floor malting operations were stopped. In 1965, the stills were increased from 6 to 12, to 18 in 1974 and to 21 in 1975.

The old still house was closed in 1970 but resumed operations in September 2008. When the old and new still houses were jointly operated, the whisky was stored in two enormous glass-lined cylindrical tanks before casking so any slight differences would be  evened out.

Full article: http://www.whisky-news.com/En/distilleries/Macallan.html

However, I have doubts about the date 1970. Might be 1980...