Whiskey is a popular alcoholic beverage.
Let’s find out more about this quite strong alcoholic beverage.
- Whiskey is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage.
- It is spelled as whiskey or whisky.
- It is made from fermented grain mash.
- There are many varieties of whiskey.
- Whiskey is aged in wooden casks.
- Normally the casks are made of charred white oak.
- The word whiskey comes from the Classical Gaelic uisce.
- Uisce means water.
- Whiskey is related to Scotland.
- Scotland is the “mother” of more than 20 million casks of maturing whiskey!
- It generates huge tax revenue in Scotland reaching up to 125 pounds for the Scottish government.
- A single malt may see several casks.
- The world’s most expensive whiskey wasn’t sold in Scotland but in Hong Kong in 2015.
- It cost 628.205$.
- This record was held until 2018, which was broken when someone bought a bottle of Macallan Valerio Adami 1926.
- This bottle cost 848.000$.
- Its auction did happen in Scotland.
- It is very often that generations of families own distilleries.
- Scotch whiskey can be called whiskey only if it has been left for at least 3 years to age in casks, in Scotland of course.
- During, WWII, many bourbon distilleries were converted in order to make fuel and penicillin.
- On average 34 bottles are exported from Scotland every second.
- The Scottish Parliament first taxed whiskey in 1644.
- Licensed whiskey was banned from 1757 to 1760.
- This happened because of a poor grain harvest.
- Kentucky has more barrels of maturing bourbon than… humans!
- Scotland though has 4 casks of whiskey per citizen.
- Whiskey is Alabama’s official state beverage.
- The majority of whiskey that is exported from Scotland is not a single malt but blended.
- The Japanese market of whiskey is quite competitive, too.
- This is why whiskey makers rarely trade casks with one another.
- Frank Sinatra was buried with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s.
- Un-aged American whiskey is often called “white dog”.
- The co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous demanded whiskey on hi deathbed.
- He didn’t get it.
- Drake and Conor McGregor own whiskey brands.
- In some places in South America, some people say “whiskey” instead of “cheese” when posing for photographs.
- Visiting a distillery is the second most popular activity in Scotland.
- John Jameson, the founder of the Jameson whiskey brand, was Scottish.
- John or Johnnie Walker was a grocer in Kilmarnock in Scotland who specialized in blending tea before starting blending whiskey,
- In 1994 marked 500 years since the first written reference of Scottish whiskey.