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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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Jamie Eltringham
<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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What's the effect of Chill-filtering on Whisky?
Rory McCune
# 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?

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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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