The ground meal or grist is next thoroughly mixed with very warm water in large tuns or keeves for a period of about two hours. |
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Whipping our group past mash tuns and alembic condensers, the guide points us towards the main event, the tasting room. |
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As for size, the tonnage of ships in this period was reckoned literally in terms of capacity to carry tuns, or casks, of wine. |
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The tuns, which have been in constant use since 1778, will then lie idle while the owners of Boddingtons decide what to do with the site. |
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Once you smell the hops and barley cooking in the mash tuns, or whatever brewers do, you'll be gagging for a pint of the finished product. |
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The mixture goes through a series of vast tuns until it reaches the small oddly-shaped stills, which the family-run distillery retains to ensure consistency of the whisky. |
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I am led passed mills, mash tuns, washbacks and stills, each stage characterised by the pungent aromas of malt, fermentation and alcoholic vapours. |
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We are returning this for a redraw as the tuns are unidentifiable and the black line denoting the chief is so thick it appears to be a chief nebuly gules fimbriated sable. |
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After a training session on the beach at Filey the players also enjoyed their now customary pre-FA Cup match meal of fish and chips at the Three Tuns pub in the seaside town. |
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