Time to update you all on whats been going on here in Da Chi, Longyan, so here’s the November Update from Nine Rivers Distillery.
Since our big event back in September, the project has continued to grow and develop at the same speed (maybe even a little bit faster) as before. Here’s the update on each building:
Building 1
As a quick refresh on your memory, Building 1 is the first of our cask maturation warehouses. It’s where we’ll be putting all our filled casks, and leaving them to let the magic happen.
This building is almost 1500 square meters in footprint. It’s a single storey building with an internal ceiling height of 13 meters.
The steel and concrete frame for Building 1 is already complete. We are currently installing the roof steels and the external brick work is about 40% completed.
We will be putting the first 6000 casks of whisky into this building, starting early next year. If you look closely, you can see someone on the roof in a yellow helmet. This helps to frame a perspective on how big this building really is.
Building 3
Just to recap. This building has almost 2000 square meters of footprint, but unlike Building 1 and Building 4, this is a multi-storey building, with 4 floors plus a mezzanine and a vast basement area. The total usable space is over 8000 square meters, not counting the roof.
This was the first building that we started on, because it is the biggest of this first phase of construction and it’s also the building under which we have our massive 1.8 million litre reservoir of water for fire suppression.
Building 3 is literally complete now. All of the steel and concrete has been finished for a few months. About 90% of the external and internal brick work is also complete. Fire suppression pumps are in the basement, and all of the fire suppression pipework is in place across all 4 floors of the building.
We’ll be using this building for malting, milling, mashing, fermenting and storage. It will eventually host 4 x 1000 square meter malting floors, a 30 ton mashtun, 18 x 30,000 litre fermenters (washbacks) and a grain mill.
Any rumours about there being a secret hidden whisky bar will neither be confirmed nor denied.
Building 4
Building 4 is of course our still house. Similar to Building 1 (they both look the same from the outside) it is just under 1500 square meters in footprint. Again, this building has a mezzanine floor but this time looking into a 1000 square meter open plan area which will house our 10 stills.
This was the last of the three buildings to start construction on, so logically it has the least progress. All of the concrete and steel frame is in place, and the 40 tons of roof steel girders are almost complete. But as of writing this November update, there is currently no brickwork completed on this building.
One of the fascinating points about this building, which can be seen in the first picture in the top right hand corner of the open plan area, is the underground tunnel we have connecting the still house to Building 3.
Measuring 4 meters wide and 3 meters high, it’s big enough to drive two cars through side by side. It was necessary to create the tunnel to connect the buildings as the alternative options would have spoiled the visual aesthetics of our buildings.
Let’s hope you enjoyed this November update.
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