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Alcoholic spirits measures are instruments designed to measure exact amounts or shots of alcoholic spirits. One of the benefits of alcoholic spirits measures is that they can help to control and monitor alcohol consumption and estimated blood alcohol content.
- Angel’s Share
- Cask
- Cask Strength
- Cask Finish
- Chill Filtration
- Dram
- Expression
- Malting
- Original Distillery Bottling
- Independent Bottling
In a nutshell, it’s the amount of alcohol that evaporates from a cask as whisky matures. If you’ve never heard of this before, it might upset you to know that every year, thousands of litres of whisky are lost to evaporation. There must be some pretty tipsy angels somewhere…
Here’s an easy one. A cask is simply the barrel that the whisky sits in as it matures. It has a huge effect on the flavour, character and colour of the whisky too. (If you’d like to find out more, we’ve written a much more detailed explanation of the effect casks have on whisky.Check it out.)
No prizes for guessing what this one means. The whisky is bottled at the strength that it comes out of the cask – to put another way, the whisky hasn’t been diluted. This is standard practice for most independent bottlers, while distilleries tend to dilute their whiskies to around 40% ABV for consistency (and definitely, absolutely, in-no-way relat...
Another one where the clue is in the name: cask finish refers to a whisky that has been transferred from the primary barrel to a second (and sometimes even third) barrel for extra maturation. You’ll often see independent bottlings referred to as sherry cask – these are whiskies that have matured in a sherry cask for some period, giving them a sweet...
Put simply, chill filtration is a process that removes the esters, proteins and fatty acids from whisky to give it consistency and make it aesthetically pleasing. (Since when was a glass of any whisky not a sight to behold?) You can get a thorough understanding of the process from one ofour previous posts, but this is one of those terms with which,...
Ask a whisky buff and they’ll say that it’s the Scottish term for a measure of whisky that stems from ‘Drachma’, the Greek word for sixty grains (the equivalent of an eighth of an ounce.) Really, it’s just a fancy way of saying a measure of whisky.
Another one of those whisky terms that just a tinybit pretentious, it’s pretty much just another way to say a different whisky from a particular brand or distillery. This one’s easier to read in a sentence: TheSignatory 20 Year Sherry Caskis a fantastic expression from Glenlivet.[JB1] That’s it.
This is one of those technical terms used in the whisky-making process. All it really refers to is the process that converts barley into sugar. That sugar then becomes glorious alcohol when it ferments, which in turn becomes whisky. The malting process soaks the barley in warm water and lets it germinate, which produces that sweet sugary goodness.
This is one of those terms that you don’t hear used very much, but bear with us – it’s important to get to grips with OBs so that you can understand how it differs from an independent bottling. OBs are whiskies that are bottled directly for the distillery and aren’t sold on to any other bottler or private companies. Your garden variety Scotches are...
Yes, we know. We’ve broken the alphabetical order and it’s incredibly frustrating. But it’s for a reason. (Well, two actually.) Firstly, it’s much easier to understand what independent bottlings are once you know what an original distillery bottling is. Secondly, we wanted to save the best for last. An independent bottling is a whisky that has been...
- ABV: Short for “Alcohol By Volume,” ABV refers to the alcohol content of a given liquid — AKA the percentage of the liquid that is alcohol. Typically, when it comes to whiskeys, ABV is referred to by its proof rating, but other industries (like the beer world) prefer to stick with ABV.
- Age/Age Statement: Though not always required by law, many distilleries will mark their whiskey offerings with the amount of time they’ve spent aging.
- Angel’s Share: During the process of aging whiskey and due to the porous nature of wood barrels, a small percentage (roughly 2%) of every barreled whiskey batch is lost.
- Barley: One of the earliest grains to be used by man, barley is believed to have been cultivated in Eurasia as many as 10,000 years ago. It’s also the primary grain used in the distillation of whiskey (and beer), having been steeped, germinated, and dried.
1⁄2 Imperial pint. A gill of beer was a customary measure equal to half an imperial pint (10 imperial fluid ounces or 280 millilitres) used in rural parts of England. [ 4 ] It is a holdover from when spirits, wines and brandies, ale, and beer all had different standard measures of capacity.
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Apr 28, 2023 · Members say that, until legal regulations set standards for what can and cannot be called Texas whiskey, this voluntary measure will help to separate the wheat from the chaff – or the compliant, Texas-made products from brands that are based in the state but produced elsewhere.
