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    <p>The main reason to chill filter a whisky is actually purely cosmetic</p>
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  <p>Chill filtering is a process that makes sure that a whiskey won't go cloudy if water or ice is added to it.</p>
  
  <p>It is mainly only done as people don't want to see a cloudy whiskey so it is done a a cosmetic touch to make the whiskey more appealing. </p>
  
  <p>Although if a whiskey is above 46% this process is not necessary as the alcohol level will stop the cloudiness from happening. </p>
  
  <p>It is causing a bit of bother with whiskey distillers as people want a natural organic whiskey so they don't want it to go through the process of chill filtering but they also want a nice clear whiskey. </p>
  
  <p>For more information see <a href="http://www.whiskyforeveryone.com/whisky_basics/chill_filtration.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Here</a></p>
  
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Body: <p>Some whiskys (for example <a href="http://deanstonmalt.com/our-whisky/deanston-12-year-old">Deanston 12</a> ) say on their label that they are "Un-Chill filtered" and in the example case follow that up with "exactly as it should be" which implies that there are some negative effects to chill-filtering whisky.</p>
  
  <p>What are the effects (positive and negative) of Chill-Filtering whisky?</p>
  
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Title: What's the effect of Chill-filtering on Whisky?
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ThreadText: # What's the effect of Chill-filtering on Whisky?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-04-19)
  
  Some whiskys (for example [Deanston 12](http://deanstonmalt.com/our-whisky/deanston-12-year-old) ) say on their label that they are "Un-Chill filtered" and in the example case follow that up with "exactly as it should be" which implies that there are some negative effects to chill-filtering whisky.
  
  What are the effects (positive and negative) of Chill-Filtering whisky?
  
  **Tags:** whiskey
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-04-21. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  > The main reason to chill filter a whisky is actually purely cosmetic
  
  Chill filtering is a process that makes sure that a whiskey won't go cloudy if water or ice is added to it.
  
  It is mainly only done as people don't want to see a cloudy whiskey so it is done a a cosmetic touch to make the whiskey more appealing.
  
  Although if a whiskey is above 46% this process is not necessary as the alcohol level will stop the cloudiness from happening.
  
  It is causing a bit of bother with whiskey distillers as people want a natural organic whiskey so they don't want it to go through the process of chill filtering but they also want a nice clear whiskey.
  
  For more information see [Here](http://www.whiskyforeveryone.com/whisky_basics/chill_filtration.html)
  
  
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