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?
Single malt whisky
Single malt whisky is malt whisky from a single distillery. Single malts are typically associated with single malt Scotch, though they are also produced in various other countries. Under the United Kingdom's Scotch Whisky Regulations, a "Single Malt Scotch Whisky" must be made exclusively from malted barley (although the addition of E150A caramel colouring is allowed), must be distilled using pot stills at a single distillery, and must be aged for at least three years in oak casks of a capacity not exceeding . While
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,