| Age |
Refers to
the numbers of years a whisky has been matured in casks, for a blend
the oldest part of it. |
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| Aqua
vitae |
Latin for
"water of life" |
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| Barrels |
Casks containing
180 litres (47 am. gallons) |
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| Blend |
A mix of
pot-still malt whisky and continuous-still grain whisky. |
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| Bourbon |
American
whiskey mostly made of maize. |
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| Butts |
Casks containing
500 litres (132 am. gallons) |
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| Continuous
still |
Distillation
device for grain whisky, with a continuous flow from wash to spirit. Also
called Coffey-still, named after the developer of the original idea. |
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| Dram |
Small glass
of whisky, commonly 1/6 of a gill (2,5 cl). |
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| Feints |
Poor quality
spirit, mostly water, in the end of the distillation. Is used in
the next batch of low wines. |
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| Foreshots |
Poor quality
spirit in the beginning of the distillation. Is used in the next batch
of low wines. |
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| Grain
whisky |
Whisky made
in a continuous-still from various cereals included malted barley. A lot
cheaper whisky do make and it doesn´t need to mature as long time
as malt. Is mostly mixed with malts, blended whisky. |
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| Heads |
Same as
foreshots. |
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| Heart |
Same as
middle cut. |
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| Hogshead |
Casks containing
250 litres (66 am. gallons) |
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| Kiln |
Room for
drying malt with peatfire |
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| Low
wines |
The resulting
liquid from the wash still. |
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| Nosing |
Whisky is
not assessed by tasting, instead it´s aroma is sniffed. |
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| Malt |
Barley whose
starch content has turned to suger. |
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| Mash |
Sugerrich
liquid, from the mix of grist and hot water. |
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| Middle
cut |
The used
part of a distilling run, between foreshots and feints. |
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| Pagoda
head |
The pyramid-shaped
roof on a kiln, to let the smoke out. |
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| Pot
still |
Still for
double-distilling malt whisky. |
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| Single
malt |
Whisky made
from malted barley by double distillation in pot-stills at one individual
distillery. |
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| Spirit
safe |
Locked glass
and brass control box |
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| Spirit
still |
The final
distillation still, for low wines from the wash still |
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| Tails |
Same as
feints |
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| Uisge
beatha |
Scottish
Gaelic for whisky. |
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| Usky |
What uisge
beatha had change to in the 1770´s. |
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| Usque
baugh |
Irish Gaelic
for whisky. |
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| Vatted
malt |
A blend
of single malt whiskies. |
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| Wash |
Liquor made
from fermented wort. |
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| Wash
still |
The first
distillation still, for wash. |
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| Whiskey |
The way
whisky is spelled in countries other than Scotland and Canada. |
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| Wort |
Liquor made
from grist mashed with hot water |
