04/10/2023
Some useful tips about whisky::
🥃 *Glenfiddich* is the world's best-selling single malt
🥃 *Johnnie Walker Red* *Label* is the world's best-selling Scotch.
🥃The Famous *Grouse*
is the best-selling whisky in Scotland
🥃 *Glenmorangie* is the best-selling single malt in Scotland.
🥃The world's fastest growing Scotch today is *Black Dog*. India is a major contributor to its sales.
🥃The five most popular single malts globally are *Glenfiddich,* The *Glenlivet,* *Glenmorangie Original,* *Aberlour* and *Laphroaig*
🥃 *Bruichladdich’s* _The Octomore_ is the most heavily peated whisky in the world (167ppm)
🥃The three oldest single malts currently sold are *Glenturret,* *Oban* and *Glenlivet*
🥃The oldest distillery in Scotland is _Glen turret_ (1775), followed by _Bowmore_ (1779)
🥃With each bottle of *Laphroaig* that you buy, you are entitled to a lifetime lease of one sq foot of the distillery’s land, along with a personalized certificate of ownership
🥃 *Cadenhead’s *
Whisky Shop on _Canongate,_ has a unique selling point: customers can have a bottle poured straight from a cask and labeled with their name. When sealed it has a label with the ‘born on date’, as whisky stops aging as soon as it leaves the wooden barrel, so each bottle is a unique blend.
🥃 *Edradour* is the smallest distillery in Scotland. The entire operation is run by just three people
🥃The _Glenmorangie_ _distillery_ is one of the smallest in the Highlands and employs just sixteen craftsmen, called *‘The Sixteen Men of Tain’*
🥃The most expensive country in which to buy Scotch, ironically, is the *UK,* where it is made
🥃 In the UK, its home country, the five most popular blended Scotch whiskies are The Famous *Grouse,* William Grant’s, *Bell’s,* *Teacher’s* and *J&B* Rare. Note: Johnnie Walker does not feature in the list of best-selling blends in its home country.
🥃A closed bottle of Scotch can be kept for 100 years and still be good to drink. After opening, a bottle of Scotch whisky will remain good for five years.
🥃The Australian Wine Research Institute has introduced a measure called a *standard drink.* In Australia, a standard drink contains 10 g (12.67 ml) of *alcohol,* the amount that an average adult male can metabolize in one hour.
🥃 Although their proof differs, standard drinks of *beer,* *wine* and *spirits* contain the same amount of alcohol – 0.6 ounces each. They’re all the same to a breath analyser.
🥃 18,000 litres of *Scotch whisky* worth over $800,000 were accidentally flushed down the drain at *Chivas Brothers’* Dumbarton bottling plant in 2013.
🥃Experts advise you to drink single malt with just a dash of water. The water supposedly _‘releases the serpent’_ from the whisky
🥃 If there is a serpent, there is also an angel. As it ages, 2-2.5 % of the whisky maturing in a barrel is lost to evaporation every year. Distillers refer to this as the ‘angel’s share’.
🥃 There is also a devil. The whisky absorbed by the wood of barrel during maturation is known as the _'devil's_ _cut’_
🥃 Indian *'whisky'* is technically flavoured *rum,* because it's essentially made from sugar
🥃 *General Knowledge* *for all the Whisky* *Lovers....*
