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Molasses Distillery 60 million litres per annum.
The overall licensed capacity has been increased to 125 million liters per
annum.
Barley
process of whisky.
The quality of the whisky depends on the quality and purity of the water
Yeast: `east (brewer's yeast, often mixed with culture yeast) will start the
fermentation process
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The making process of whisky takes at least 3 years.
If a grain (malted or not) spirit did not stay for at least 3 years in an oak
cask, it does not deserve the name of whisky.
2. All grains except barley are first ground into meal in a gristmill. The meal
is then mixed with water and cooked to break down the cellulose walls that
contain starch granules. This can be done in a closed pressure cooker at
temperatures of up to 311iF (155iC) or more slowly in an open cooker at
212iF (100iC).
Instead of being cooked, barley is malted.
The first step in malting barley consists of soaking it in water until it is thoroughly
saturated.
It is then spread out and sprinkled with water for about three weeks, at which time it
begins to sprout. During this germination the enzyme amylase is produced, which
converts the starch in the barley into sugars.
Drying the barley and heating it with hot air from a kiln halt the sprouting. For
whiskey, the fuel used in the kiln includes peat, a soft, carbon-rich substance formed
when plant matter decomposes in water.
The peat gives whiskey a characteristic smoky taste. The malted barley is then
ground like other grains.
Mashing consists of mixing cooked grain with malted barley and warm
water.
The amylase in the malted barley converts the starch in the other grains into
sugars.
After several hours the mixture is converted into a turbid, sugar-rich liquid
known as mash. (In making malt whiskey the mixture consists only of
malted barley and water.
as wort.
Fermenting
The mash or wort is transferred to a fermentation vessel,
The sour mash method is more often used because it is effective at room
temperature and its low pH (high acidity) promotes yeast growth and
inhibits the growth of bacteria. The sweet mash method is more difficult to
control, and it must be used at temperatures above 80iF (27iC) to speed up
the fermentation and to avoid bacterial contamination. After 3 or 4 days, the
end product of fermentation is a liquid containing about 10% alcohol .
Distilling
The wash is heated so that most of the alcohol (which boils at 172iF
[78iC]) is transformed into vapor but most of the water (which boils at
212iF [100iC]) is not
Some congeners boil at a lower temperature than alcohol and can be boiled
off
Some are lighter than alcohol and will float on top, where they can be
poured off.
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Whiskey is aged in wooden barrels, usually made from charred white oak.
White oak is used because it is one of the few woods that can hold a liquid
without leaking but which also allows the water in the whiskey to move
back and forth within the pores of the wood, which helps to add flavor
The aging process is a complex one, still not fully understood, but at least
three factors are involved
1. First, the original mixture of water, alcohol, and congeners react with each
other over time.
2. Second, these ingredients react with oxygen in the outside air in oxidation
reactions.
3. Third, the water absorbs substances from the wood as it moves within it.
(Charring the wood makes these substances more soluble in water.)
BLENDING
They are produced from single batches and are ready to be bottled straight from the
Often neutral grain spirit is added to lighten the flavor, caramel is added to
standardize the color, and a small amount of sherry or port wine is added to help the
flavors blend
Blending is often considered the most difficult and critical process in producing
premium Scotch whiskeys. A premium blended Scotch whiskey may contain more
than 60 individual malt whiskeys, which must be blended in the proper proportions
BOTTLING
Glass is always used to store mature whiskey because it does not react with
it to change the flavor
The glass bottles move down a conveyor belt as they are cleaned, filled,
capped, sealed, labeled, and placed in cardboard boxes
The water used must be taken from an appropriate natural source. It must
be filtered so that it is free from organic matter.
The grain used must be very clean. It is also passed through screens to
eliminate grains that are too small.
determine if it is mature.
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Effluent Treatment Plant
The Distillery complies with Zero Discharge concept set up by CPCB.
Primary Treatment of the Effluent yields Bio Gas, which is used as fuel in
Cogen Boiler to generate steam and then Power through a backpressure
Turbine.
Environmentally Friendly
Meeting out 100% Pollution Control norms, the Treated Effluent is not
discharged outside and in turn is mixed and cured with organic mass like
Press Mud of Sugar Mills and suitable organic manures to manufacture Bio
Manure or Bio Compost, a bio fertilizer used successfully in growing the
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