Scotch Series 27: Maturation Less handling of the spirit the better. It is like pastry, or fire. Don’t annoy it! Casks must be less than 700 litres because much of the maturation chemistry depends on good contact with the wood. Oxygen diffuses into the cask....
Scotch Series 26: Copper and Stills Copper is an element. It is number 29 in the Periodic Table, in the same column as Silver and Gold. They are called Transition Metals. It is found in South Africa, among other places. LH Stainless – a turnkey distillery...
Scotch Series 25: Specific Gravity Water density number is 1000 kg /M3. We work with mass and atmospheric pressure, and work the equation backwards, to get the SG of water. Specific Gravity (SG) is the ratio of the density of a substance to the density of water....
Scotch Series 24: Economics and Politics Scotch Whisky adds £3.3 billion directly, and its total impact is to add nearly £5bn overall to UK GDP – GDP means Gross Domestic Product. GDP is the total value of everything produced by all the people and companies in...
Scotch and Series 23: Sugars Yeasts eats simple sugars and needs help to eat the big/complex sugars in Barley. Grain holds some of its sugars in polymers – starch and cellulose. Polymers are built up structures of units – in this case we are talking about...
Scotch Series 22: Barley On International Women’s Day 2018 we highlight the connection between whisky & women, through focus on barley; Barley has established eminent connections throughout time; ‘Cailleach n’am braice’ meaning Great...
