Learn Finnish: Uudessa tislaamossa tislataan paljon alkoholia. - In the new distillery, a lot of alcohol is distilled.

Here, the word paljon (a lot) acts as the measure word. As the head of the phrase, it dictates that the substance being measured, alkoholi, must be in the partitive case (alkoholia). This uninflected partitive modifier structure is exactly how you say "a glass of water" (lasi vettä) or "a lot of alcohol".

Tislaamossa and tislataan obviously share a root. How does that word-building work?

The base verb is tislata (to distill), which gives us the passive present form tislataan. To create a noun for the physical place where an action happens, Finnish commonly adds the suffix -mo or -mö to the verb stem, creating tislaamo (distillery). You see this same pattern when leipoa (to bake) becomes leipomo (bakery).

Why is tislataan translated as "is distilled" rather than using the verb "to be"?

Tislataan is the Finnish passive voice. Unlike the English passive, the Finnish passive always implies that some unspecified human or group of humans is doing the action (think of it as "people distill" or "one distills"). It is the most natural and grammatically correct way to say that an action happens without naming the doer.

Why does the adjective uusi change to uudessa here?