How does a malting facility work? | Whisky Knowledge

In this video, Ben Luening uses the example of Glen Ord Maltings to explain how a malting facility works. The distillery is located on the "Black Isle", just north of Inverness. This region has arguably the best barley in Scotland. So it's not surprising that Glen Ord is one of the few distilleries that still has its own malting facility. At the same time, it also produces malt for other Diageo distilleries, such as Talisker, Clynelish and Brora. In addition to the Black Isle grain, barley from the Lowlands is also used for malting. In the so-called industrial style big maltings, the grain is soaked in tanks, after which the grain begins to germinate. It will take about a day to get there. At the end you can see a small sprout growing out of each grain. The contents of two soaking tanks are then fed into a drum, where the grain is spread out and rotated. There, the temperature and humidity are controlled and adjusted in such a way that the grain can germinate optimally. This is then laid out on the drying floor where it dries using hot air heated by hot water from the still. Sometimes you also use gas or peat for smoky malt. The grain is dried until there is only 5% moisture left, which stops the germination process; this takes about 24 hours. Time stamp: 00:00 Intro 01:18 Steeping 03:25 Germination 06:25 Drying 09:39 Outro Official answers and comments will only be given on whisky.com. http://www.whisky.com/forum/ http://www.whisky.com/forumblogchat/blog.html #whisky #whiskey #malting Visit our online shop at Whisky.com Please note that we currently only ship to the Netherlands, Belgium Austria and Germany.