Illustration of the whisky making process

This illustration is based on pictures of the scale model of an distillery displayed at the Glenkinchie distillery. Visiting this distillery is very interesting, especially because of the very nice distillation museum it hosts, and the pictures below represent the master piece of this museum.
Barley reception at the distillery	Malting floors
Kiln (oven) used to dry the malt. This image of the distillery makes the role of the pagoda roofs on (old) distilleries obvious.	After drying the malt, it goes through the malt mill to be transformed in a kind of coarse flour (like muesli)
After grinding, the malt is transferred in the mash tuns where it is mixed with hot water in order to extract the sugar.	The wort is then transferred in the wash backs , where yeast is added, to start the fermentation
The fermented liquid is then distilled in the stills	The distilled alcohol is cooled in a condenser.
before being transferred in oak casks for a minimum of 3 years