The whisky tasting was enlightening and the food that accompanied each of the single malt whisky’s were to die for! My favorite out of the 5 whisky’s we tasted was Singleton, a 10 year old single malt Scotch whisky. Here are some of the facts we learnt during the presentation:
“Whisky (Scottish English) or whiskey (Irish English) is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash.
Different grains are used for different varieties, including barley, malted barley, rye, malted rye, wheat, and maize (corn).
Whisky is aged in wooden casks, made generally of white oak, except that in the United States corn whiskey need not be aged.
Whisky is a strictly regulated spirit worldwide with many competing denominations of origin and many classes and types. The unifying characteristics of the different classes and types are the fermentation of grains, distillation to less than 95% alcohol, and aging in wood.”
Click on the link below to see photo’s taken at the tasting (it was taken with my I-phone in bad lighting, so please excuse the quality of the photo’s!)
Whisky Tasting – Clover Aardklop 2011
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Happy cooking (with or without alcohol!)
Jeanri