The Whisky Dictionary by Iain Hector Ross

Author:Iain Hector Ross [Ross, Iain Hector]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Published: 2017-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

Kiln v. To dry malted barley at the point when the germinating process has been triggered by steeping the barley or green malt. Timing is crucial to ensure that the maximum sugar yield is reached in each grain. Moisture level is a key factor in ensuring the dried malt is stored in a stable state and optimum condition for most efficient milling. Kilning halts the process at the perfect moisture level and starch levels for milling and removes and enhances flavouring compounds prior to distillation.

n. The distinctive pagoda roof profile is easily the most distinctive and recognisable architectural feature of any traditionally built malt whisky distillery. The louvred pagoda roof marks the malt kiln building which consists of three elements. The kiln furnace or oven on the ground floor is fired traditionally by coke, anthracite or peat. The wedge wire malt drying floor is above the furnace and the ventilating roof. The design of the steep pitched roof culminating in the louvred chimney head ensures that the smoke from the kiln, particularly the intense peat reek, vents outside by rising high and clear above the malt spread across the drying floor. Few distilleries kiln their own malt nowadays and pagoda roofs are now mere memorials and quaint features. Modern kilns are vast industrial buildings in purpose-built malting plants using natural gas heated malting floors.

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