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The Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre

The Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre

Edinburgh; 1999

3 lights, each 0.8m x 1.7m

One of three panels in the Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre. They explore the ‘History, mystery and romance of Scotch Whisky’, showing how the manufacture and appreciation of Scotch whisky has grown from the Celts to the present day. This panel is concerned with the ‘mystery’ of Scotch whisky, describing the raw materials and the process of distillation. The design shows the traditional malting process, where grain is hand turned by day and night with a wooden shovel on the malting floors, contrasting it here with the new technology where grain is mechanically raked and turned in great vats. The cat is ‘Towser’, the ‘mouser’ from Glenturret Distillery, who famously caught thousands of mice in his lifetime.