Glenlossie

In 1974 Glenlossie was classified as one of only a dozen top-class Scottish blending malts.⁵ In 1977 J R Hume's Industrial Archaeology of Scotland recorded that much of the distillery had been modernised, but a large malting kiln still stood.^1,8 Glenlossie then passed to United Distillers, formed by combining the Distillers Company and Arthur Bell & Sons, both owned by Guinness; sources date this 1986 or 1987.^2,4 In 1997 Guinness merged with Grand Metropolitan to create Diageo.^2,4 Between 2012 and 2013 Diageo built a £6 million bioenergy plant that burns draff, the spent grain left over from distilling.^5,9,10 It powers Glenlossie, Mannochmore and the dark grains plant.^5,9,10

It has 3 wash stills for the first distillation and 3 spirit stills for the second.³ The stills are heated by steam, and their vapour is cooled in shell and tube condensers.² Its six large stills are onion-shaped.^2,5 From the outset, the stills have had purifier pipes, which carry heavier alcohols back into the still to be distilled again.^2,5 The purifiers make a relatively light-bodied, oily spirit.^2,5 It has 8 larch washbacks, the vessels where fermentation happens.^2,5 Two stainless steel washbacks, sited outside the building, were added in 2019.⁵