Once you’ve selected the perfect grains for your whiskey, it’s time to prepare your mash bill – the precise grain recipe used to create your bottled spirit. This process involves mixing and mashing the grains with hot water, converting the starch compounds into sugar. The importance of gra...
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The first thing to understand is that grains should only be used for fermentation when the end product will be a flavorful spirit. For example if you were trying to make a bourbon or whiskey a grain mash is the best choice. This is because corn, rye and barley add distinct flavors to t...
The mash is essentially the mixture of grains used to create the whiskey. A ‘grain bill’ is list of the specific combination used. Malted barley is the most typical grain used, though corn, rye, and wheat sometimes make an appearance depending on the region and variation. Peat is a ...
The mash is essentially the mixture of grains used to create the whiskey. A ‘grain bill’ is list of the specific combination used. Malted barley is the most typical grain used, though corn, rye, and wheat sometimes make an appearance depending on the region and variation. Peat is a ...
Bourbon must contain at least 51% corn, while rye must contain at least 51% rye.In Ireland, whiskey can be made in any combination. Even oats are contemplated, as long as there is malt, even in small doses. We will try to show you how distillation wor...
And to make more booze, you have to empty and replenish the still. A continuous still overcomes both of those problems. As the name implies, the still operates continuously, replenishing the mash as needed. The continuous process allows the still to distill purer and purer alcohol over time,...
but also to some very rarefied versions of America to be found in today’s Japan. It has also made the exchange of Americana a two-way street: Earlier this year, Osaka-based Suntory, a Japanese conglomerate best known for its whiskey holdings, announced that it was buying Beam Inc., t...
Irish whiskey or scotch As a kid lying in bed, shivering with the aches, pains and chills of a flu, we welcomed a hot toddy and felt that the warm whiskey and honey would soon make us well. And maybe it did. As we got older, we came to appreciate the warming taste of the toddy...
Sons of Liberty in Rhode Island makes malt whiskeys from classic beer mash bills and yeasts. Wigle Whiskey in Pittsburgh, inveterate experimenter, recently did a trio of multi-malt whiskeys. Roasty includes three rye malts, two barley malts, and roasted barley. Triple Double has pale and ...