Whisky Words: Floor Maltings

Floor malting is an old-school method of turning barley into malted barley, a key ingredient in the whisky production process. Vic Cameron, one of our whisky lecturers, says: “Floor malting is a traditional method that every distillery used to have back in the old days. It simply means germinating barley on a concrete floor instead of in a pneumatic vessel.” Learn more about the handful of Scotch whisky distilleries that still operate traditional floor maltings on-site in this blog post.

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