Before you buy an expensive bottle of good whiskey, find out more information about this drink. Gathering facts about whiskey, I managed to compile a whole list of interesting and funny information notes about this strong drink. Do you know that…
Instructions
Step 1
Can the English name of the whiskey be written with or without an "e"? And both spellings will be correct: whiskey and whiskey. In Scotland they write without the "e", in Ireland - with the "e". In the USA, Canada and Japan, both norms have taken root. Pay attention to this interesting feature when choosing a particular whiskey. It will indirectly indicate the country of the manufacturer.
Step 2
Whiskey is allowed to be given the proud name "whiskey" only after it has been matured in oak barrels for at least 3 years.
Step 3
Single malt whiskey is made from one type of grain. There are over 5,000 types of single malt whiskeys. A blended whiskey is a whiskey that consists of a mixture of grain whiskeys with several malts.
Step 4
Experts recommend drinking whiskey neat or slightly diluted with room temperature water. And this is not a whim and a tribute to fashion. It's all about the maturation processes that took place in oak barrels for 10-15 years. If you mix whiskey with ice or any other drink, all the aroma of an oak barrel and the result of the finest maturation process will go down the drain.
Step 5
Bottled whiskey stops maturing. It matures only in barrels, and in bottles it simply retains its taste and aroma. If the bottle says that the whiskey is 10 years old, it means that the whiskey has been aged for at least 10 years in oak barrels.
Step 6
A closed bottle of whiskey can last for over 100 years and will remain as tasty and drinkable as if the whiskey was bottled a month ago. Once the bottle has been opened, its shelf life should not exceed 5 years, but this is provided that at least half of the contents remain in the bottle.
Step 7
The most expensive whiskey is 1926 Macallan. There are only 40 bottles from other manufacturers that are over 60 years old. The price for a bottle is 62 thousand dollars.
