I want to start drinking something that puts some real hair on your chest. Some some whisky will do that for you. I want some background on it first, though. Where can you start me off?
Well to start, whiskey is a type of distilled alcohol made from fermented grain mash.
Fermented grain mash.. sounds tasty! What are a couple of the major key points you think are interesting about it to a potential consumer?
It's aged in wooden casks, I think that's pretty cool
Yeah, I think you always hear about that in the commercials and such. What's something more obscure?
There's a ton of rules regarding the regulation of whisky. Under Scotch Whisky Regulations a single malt scoth whisky must be ages for at least 3 years in an oak cask.
Oh okay, I didn't realize there were things you HAD to do. I guess that makes sense, to not have it be so ambiguous.
Whisky
Whisky or whiskey is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash. Various grains (which may be malted) are used for different varieties, including barley, corn, rye, and wheat. Whisky is typically aged in wooden casks, generally made of charred white oak.
Whisky is a strictly regulated spirit worldwide with many classes and types. The typical unifying characteristics of the different classes and types are the fermentation of grains, distillation, and aging in wooden barrels.
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Straight whiskey
Straight whiskey (or straight whisky), as defined in United States law, is whiskey that is distilled from a fermented (malted or unmalted) cereal grain mash to a concentration not exceeding 80% alcohol by volume (abv) and aged in new charred oak barrels for at least two years at a concentration not exceeding 62.5% at the start of the aging process.
The only allowed modifications to straight whiskey prior to its bottling consist of batching whiskey from different barrels (and sometimes from different distilleries,