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Your Guide To Scotch Whisky
By Jim Cassidy
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This illustrated guide will take you through the history of Scotch Whisky from the illicit stills among the hillsides and glens of the Highlands to it becoming the world's most famous drink.
We look at the various developments that led to Scotland, a country of less than 6 million inhabitants, now exporting more than a billion bottles of Scotch Whisky around the world every year.
You will discover how Scotch Whisky is produced, before looking at the different types of whisky, from the most popular blended whiskies to the sought after single malts.
How to understand the labels on the bottles so you know exactly what your buying and very importantly, just how to drink a single malt ( forget the ice! )
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Your Guide To Scotch Whisky - Jim Cassidy
HOW IT ALL BEGAN.
JUST THE WORDS, SCOTCH Whisky, conjure up images of sitting by a roaring fire on a winter’s night glass in hand or of the rugged and remote Highlands of Scotland. It was here in the 17th and 18th century farmers hid their illicit stills in the glens and among the hills and mountains and produced a clear strong fiery liquid whose name in Gaelic is uisge beatha or water of life.
officeArt objectBUT THE STORY OF THE world’s most famous spirit goes back even further, when on the 1st of June 1494, the Exchequer Rolls of James IV of Scotland record the granting of a quantity of malt to Friar John Cor in order to make aqua vitae
(water of life) in what is considered the first recorded mention of whisky – or at least distilling – in Scottish history.
Friar John was a monk based at Lindores Abbey in Fife, just a few miles from where I’m writing this book.
Scientists and historians worked out that the amount of malt involved could have produced around 1500 70 cl bottles, but it certainly wasn’t the sophisticated flavour of a single malt Scotch Whisky as we know it today and would more likely have been used as a medicine.
Much like gin, it would probably have been flavoured with herbs and spices that grew around the Abbey.
The Lindores Abbey distillery reopened in 2015 and the ruins of a still were discovered on the site in 2018. They have been kept as part of the distilling history of the building.
By the end of 2020 the distillery, that is now open to the public, is expected to begin bottling its own single malt.
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