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main image Distillery, Lagavulin, Islay, Argyll
The main ingredients for whisky are water and malted barley. The distillery complex includes a malting floor on which over a period of about 12 days damp barley is allowed to sprout. In this process, the starch in the barley turns into sugars which are later turned into alcohol.

Distilleries were located where there was a good water supply and a transport links by which the barley could be brought. Distilleries by the sea could not only receive barley, for coal to fire the distilling process could also be delivered from the Lowlands by boat. Their organic waste was used to feed pigs and cattle.


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