The One and Only… Ugly Betty

“An oversized, upside-down dustbin made of copper” Tom Morton
described it in his excellent Spirit of Adventure.

Bruichladdich is pleased to announce the installation of an unusual fifth still
during recent still house renovations.

A Lomand still, a defunct experimental cross between a Coffey and a pot still,
was designed with a thick column-like neck with removable sections inserted.

The aim was to create more character and variety of styles of spirit by
imitating the effect that different lengths of still ʻneckʼ would have.

The versatile still had plates, like Roman blinds, which could be ʻopenedʼ and
varying the angle of the lyne arm for lighter or heavier spirit.

The first Lomand, a spirit still, was installed in 1956 at Inverleven, part of the
ginormous Dumbarton grain distillery complex, on the banks of the Clyde .

Inverleven was closed in 1991 and raised to the ground in 2004. But not
before we nipped in and removed, among other things, the Lomand.

So, fittingly, the first shall be last: the original, the only authentic Lomand in
existence, lives to fight another day.

True to its founding principal, it is being fitted with Jimʼs newly designed neck
section, the “Silver Gattling”.

It may be the only one of its type left, but sheʼs no oil painting. Welcome to
Ugly Betty.

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