Soft pasture land, small rivers, natural harbours and a people who know that good thing take time. It’s a land where legend and fact become easily blurred, where folktales take on the mantle of truth. Some historians claim it started in 1276, though if the story of monks taking distilling with them when they went […]
The Jack Daniel’s legend begins with the eponymous founder of the distillery, who allegedly owned his first distillery at the tender age of 13, having learned his skill at the knee of Dan Call – one of those moon shining preachers who pepper the history of American whiskey. Jack was a clever operator, but it’s […]
Nothing is straightforward in whisky. Here is a distillery which makes the biggest selling malt all over the world, but still uses coal-fired stills, a technique most distillers have abandoned for being too expensive and liable to give variable results. It’s a light dram produced from tiny stills when industry wisdom maintains that small equals […]
Whisky is made from a cereal; some (or all) of it malted, that has been ground into a rough flour then mashed by passing hot water through the flour to extract a sweet liquid. This is cooled, yeast is added and the mixture ferments, turning into a crude beer. This is then distilled in either […]
Unless you’re one of the few nice people around who hasn’t even savored a drop of liquor in their whole lives, chances are that you’re at least marginally familiar of the drink whiskey. Whiskey– which is also spelled by other without the letter E– is the name used for a wide range of delicious and […]