If you were hoping for a story with some good about the industry, we have some bad news for you—some more bad news about the whisky industry arrived a few days ago. Once again it has to do with , one of the biggest drinks companies in the world, which announced that it is shutting down one of its facilities that supplies malted barley to its many distilleries around Scotland.

Most distilleries in Scotland don’t actually malt their own barley, the process in which barley is germinated and then heated to stop the process before being turned into mash and distilled. Instead, they purchase malted barley from industrial facilities that perform this job on a large scale, enough to supply many different distilleries around the country. owns four different maltings—Burghead, Glen Ord, Port Elle

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