Before buying expensive bottle of good whisky, learn more information on this drink. Collecting the facts about whisky, it was succeeded to make the whole list from interesting and amusing information notes about this strong drink. Do you know that...
Instruction
1. The English name whisky on a bottle can be written both with "е", and without it? And both writing will be true: whisky and whiskey. Scotland writes without "е", in Ireland – with "е". In the USA, Canada and Japan – both norms took root. Pay attention to this interesting feature when you choose any given whisky. She will indirectly point to a producing country.
2. Whisky is allowed to give the proud name "whisky" only after it ripened in oak casks not less than 3 years.
3. Single malt whisky is made from one type of grain. There are more than 5000 types of single malt whisky. The mixed whisky is called that whisky which consists of mix of a grain whisky with several malt.
4. Experts I recommend to drink whisky in pure form or a little diluted with water of room temperature. And it is not a whim and a craze. It is all about maturing processes which happened in oak casks within 10-15 years. If to mix whisky with ice or with any other drink, all aroma of an oak cask and result of the thinnest process of maturing will come to nothing.
5. Whisky in bottles ceases to ripen. It ripens only in barrels, and in bottles just keeps the taste and aroma. If on a bottle it is written that whisky of 10-year age, it means that whisky was matured at least 10 years in oak casks.
6. The closed bottle of whisky can be stored more than 100 years and will remain is also tasty and suitable for the use as though whisky was poured a month ago. As soon as the bottle was opened, the period of storage shouldn't exceed it 5 years, but it provided that in a bottle there was not less than a half of contents.
7. Macallan of 1926 is considered the most expensive whisky. There were only 40 bottles of other producers which are more than 60 years old. The price for a bottle is 62 thousand dollars.