Malt Whisky

by MacLean, Charles; Lowe, Jason

• ISBN13: 9781840006292
• ISBN10: 1840006293
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-28
• Publisher: MITCH

Summary

Scotland's national drink is available in more than 300 brands, styles, and ages, reflecting the diversity of the Scottish people themselves. This fully updated, beguiling buyer and collector's guidewhich won the Glenfiddich Visual Awardfeatures 250 color photographs, maps, and illustrations, and combines the fascinating story of Scotch whisky's origins with an explanation of the distilling process, including how the various waters, malts, peats, and barleys used affect the flavor and value of the mature product. Tips for conducting a proper tasting session and a directory of whisky societies are provided, as well as tasting notes for the products of every Scottish whisky distiller operating since World War II.

Table of Contents

foreword	6	(2)
introduction	8	(4)
history	12	(22)
Pre--1450	14	(2)
early distilling in Europe and the Middle East
1450--1600	16	(2)
aqua vitae and the first alembics
1600--1822	18	(4)
the rise of distilling in Scotland: the smuggling era
1822--1900	22	(6)
blended whisky; the whisky boom
1900--present time	28	(6)
malt whisky rediscovered
how whisky is made	34	(28)
water	36	(2)
barley	38	(3)
yeast	41	(1)
malting	42	(2)
peat	44	(4)
mashing	48	(2)
fermenting	50	(2)
distilling	52	(4)
filling	56	(1)
wood and maturation	57	(3)
warehouses	60	(2)
whisky tasting	62	(16)
sensory evaluation	64	(4)
preparing for a tasting	68	(2)
the tasting procedure	70	(4)
the language of whisky tasting	74	(2)
the chemical derivation of flavour	76	(1)
tasting wheels	77	(1)
the whisky regions	78	(38)
the Highlands (North, Speyside, Central, East, West, Cambeltown)	80	(20)
the Islands (Islands, Islay)	100	(10)
the Lowlands	110	(6)
directory	116	(57)
A--Z directory of all malt distilleries and their malts, with tasting notes
buying malt whisky	162	(4)
whisky societies worldwide	166	(2)
whisky websites	168	(1)
distilleries that welcome visitors	169	(2)
bibliography	171	(2)
index	173