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1: Fundamentals of Whisky
What is whisky?
- Intro
- What is whisky?
- An introduction to whisky
- What's in a name?
- But what is whisky? 1
- But what is whisky? 2
- Cereal Grain
- Mash
- Fermented
- Distilled Spirit
- Cask Aged 1
- Cask Aged 2
- To 'e' or not to 'e'?
- How to use the word whisky
- What is Scotch Whisky?
- Scotch Whisky definition
- Scotch whisky facts
- The Scotch Whisky Association
- Business of Whisky Facts 1
- Business of Whisky Facts 2
- The Raw Materials of Scotch Whisky
- Water & Yeast
- Barley & Corn
- Wheat & Peat
- Cask Strength and Additives
- What is whisky? Quiz
- Quiz!
Describing Scotch Whisky
- Describing Scotch Whisky
- Describing Scotch Whisky
- Video: Describing Scotch Whisky
- Categories of Scotch Whisky 1
- Categories of Scotch Whisky 2
- Words To Remember: Single
- Words To Remember: Blended
- Stills
- Why copper?
- Beyond copper?
- Types of Stills - Pot
- Types of Stills - Column
- Words to remember: ABV
- Words to remember: Chill-Filtered
- Words to remember: New-Make Spirit
- Maturation, Casks and Age Statements
- Maturation
- Remember
- Video: Casks vs Barrels
- Age Statements
- But what are age statements?
- Here’s an example…
- Words to remember: No Age Statement (NAS)
- Age isn't everything
- Mythbusting
- The nouns 'blend' and 'blending'
- For now, just remember this:
- Where did it come from?
- Geographical Indication (GI)
- Scotland’s Whisky Regions
- Lowland
- Highland
- Speyside
- Campbeltown
- Islay
- Mythbusting: Regions & Flavour
- The evolving influence of location on whisky
- Debunking myths
- Debunking myths
- Reading a Scotch Whisky Label
- Diagram: Reading a Scotch whisky label
- Describing Scotch Whisky: Quiz
- Quiz!
How to taste
- How to Taste
- How to Taste: Introduction
- Video: Appearance
- How to Taste: What's next?
- Video: Nosing and Tasting
- Slide 6
- Video: Finish and Impressions
- Video: Improving Tasting Vocabulary
- The Flavour Wheel
- How to Taste: Quiz
- Quiz!
2: Principles of Production
Basic Steps of Scotch
- Basic Steps of Scotch
- How is it made?
- Gathering The Raw Ingredients
- Did you know?
- Water 1
- Water 2
- Did you know?
- Yeast
- Did you know?
- Malting
- The Malting Process
- Did you know?
- Peated Malt
- Did you know?
- Commercial Malting vs. Floor Malting
- Floor malting
- Milling
- Grist
- Did you know?
- Mashing
- The process
- Did you know?
- Clear and cloudy wort
- Fermentation 1
- Fermentation 2
- Did you know?
- Distillation
- Did you know?
- First Distillation
- Did you know?
- Second Distillation
- The process
- The process continued
- Did you know?
- Continuous Distillation
- Maturation
- Did you know?
- Addition
- Extraction & Degradation
- Reaction
- Evaporation
- Oxidation
- Basic Steps of Scotch: Quiz
- Quiz!
3: Blending Basics
What is Blending?
- Video: What is Blending?
- What is Blending? Introduction
- What is Blending?
- Understanding blending
- Understanding blending continued
- Two Reasons to Blend
- Did you know?
- Meet the blenders
- Art & Science
- Did you know?
- The Nose Knows
- Our blenders
- Quotation from Sandy Hyslop
- The Structure Of A Blend
- The Whisky Creation Journey
- The ‘taste vision’ or recipe
- Cask selection
- Nosing
- Table-top trials
- Difference Testing
- Blending Instructions Issued
- Final checks
- Reduction, colouring, and filtering
- Bottling
- What is Blending? Quiz
- Quiz!
Why We Blend
- Why We Blend
- How vs Why
- The Origins of Blending
- The Origins of Blending 2
- The Birth of the Blend 1
- The Birth of the Blend 2
- Image: Coffey Stills
- The Birth of the Blend 4
- Single Grain 1
- Single Grain 2
- Why We Blend: Quiz
- Quiz!
4: Chivas Brothers Brand Worlds
Chivas Regal
- Chivas Regal: Key Facts
- Chivas Regal: Introduction to the brand
- Image: Chivas Regal Map
- Heritage
- Heritage Facts 1 & 2
- Image: 13 King St, Aberdeen
- Heritage Facts 3 & 4
- Image: Chivas Regal heritage
- Heritage Facts 5 & 6
- Image: Charles Howard
- Heritage Facts 7 & 8
- Image: Chivas Regal 12 Year Old
- Craft
- Crafts Facts 1 & 2
- Image: A mash tun at Strathisla Distillery
- Crafts Facts 3 & 4
- Image: Master Blender Jimmy Lang
- Flavour
- Flavour Facts 1 & 2
- Image: Chivas butterfly advertisement
- Flavour Facts 3 & 4
- Image: Mizunara Oak cask finish
- Chivas Regal: Did you know?
- Did you know 1
- Did you know 2
- Did you know 3
- Did you know 4
- Did you know 5
- Image: The Chivas range
- Chivas Regal: End of Topic Quiz
- Quiz!
Ballantine’s
- Ballantine's Logo
- Ballantine's: Introduction to the brand
- Map: Glenburgie
- Ballantine's: Heritage
- Heritage Facts 1 & 2
- Image: The Famous Half-crown Tea
- Heritage Facts 3 & 4
- George Ballantine
- Heritage Facts 5 & 6
- Heritage Facts 7
- Image: 1930s post-prohibition America
- Ballantine's: Craft
- Craft Facts 1 & 2
- Image: Glenburgie Distillery
- Craft Facts 3 & 4
- Image: Ballantine's 30 Year Old
- Ballantine's: Flavour
- Flavour Facts 1 & 2
- Image: Ballantine's cocktail
- Flavour Facts 3 & 4
- Image: Ballantine's True Drinks
- Flavour Facts 5
- Image: Ballantine's Single Malt
- Did you know?
- Did you know? 1
- Did you know? 2
- A briefcase of Ballantine's
- Did you know? 3
- Did you know? 4
- Did you know? 5
- Image: Ballantine's Range
- Ballantine's: End of Topic Quiz
- Quiz!
Royal Salute
- Royal Salute
- Royal Salute: Introduction to the brand
- Royal Salute Map
- Royal Salute: Heritage
- Heritage Facts 1 & 2
- Image: The 21-Gun-Salute at Tower Bridge
- Heritage Facts 3 & 4
- Image: Strathisla Distillery
- Heritage Facts 5
- Image: Royal Salute 21 Year Old colours
- Royal Salute: Craft
- Craft Facts 1 & 2
- Image: Royal Salute red bottle
- Craft Facts 3 & 4
- Image: Royal Salute cocktails
- Craft Facts 5
- Image: Royal Salute 62 Gun Salute range
- Royal Salute: Flavour
- Flavour Facts 1 & 2
- Image: Royal Salute, frozen in time
- Flavour Facts 3 & 4
- Royal Salute flavour
- Royal Salute: Did you know?
- Royal Salute: Did you know? 1
- Royal Salute: Did you know? 2
- Royal Salute: Did you know? 3
- Royal Salute: Did you know? 4
- Royal Salute: Did you know? 5
- Royal Salute: Did you know? 6
- Image: Royal Salute range
- Royal Salute: Quiz
- Quiz!
The Glenlivet
- The Glenlivet
- The Glenlivet: Introduction to the brand
- Distillery map
- Heritage
- Heritage Facts 1 & 2
- Image: Painting
- Heritage Facts 3 & 4
- Image: Illicit distillers
- Image: Distiller's Licence
- Heritage Facts 5 & 6
- Image: George Smith's pistols
- Heritage Facts 7 & 8
- Image: Glenlivet barrels
- Craft
- Craft Facts 1 & 2
- Image: Glenlivet stills
- Craft Facts 3 & 4
- Image: Josie's Well
- Flavour
- Flavour Facts 1 & 2
- Image: The Glenlivet advertisement
- Flavour Facts 3 & 4
- Image: The Glenlivet 17 Year Old Small Batch advertisement
- Did you know?
- Did you know? 1
- Did you know? 2
- Image: The core of the Glenlivet range
- The Glenlivet: End of Topic Quiz
- Quiz!
Aberlour
- Image: Aberlour Distillery
- Aberlour: Introduction to the brand
- Map: Aberlour Distillery
- Aberlour: Heritage
- Heritage Facts 1 & 2
- Image: Aberlour Distillery
- Heritage Facts 3 & 4
- Heritage Facts 5 & 6
- Image: Historic Aberlour Distillery team
- Heritage Facts 7 & 8
- Image: Historic Aberlour bottle
- Aberlour: Craft
- Craft Facts 1 & 2
- Image: The core Aberlour range
- Craft Facts 3 & 4
- Image: Aberlour onion-shaped stills
- Craft Facts 5 & 6
- Image: Aberlour advertisement
- Craft Facts 7 & 8
- Image: Aberlour advertisement
- Aberlour: Flavour
- Flavour Facts 1 & 2
- Image: Reviewing the liquid
- Flavour Facts 3 & 4
- Image: Aberlour range
- Aberlour: Did you know?
- Aberlour: Did you know? 1
- Aberlour Glenlivet Distillery
- Aberlour: Did you know? 2
- Aberlour: Did you know? 3
- Aberlour: Did you know? 4
- Aberlour: Did you know? 5
- Image: The Aberlour family
- Aberlour: End of Topic Quiz
- Quiz!
Longmorn
- Longmorn
- Longmorn: Introduction to the brand
- Map: Longmorn
- Longmorn: Heritage
- Heritage Facts 1 & 2
- Image: the railway
- Heritage Facts 3 & 4
- Image: John Duff
- Heritage Facts 5
- Image: Historic Longmorn Distillery team
- Longmorn: Craft
- Craft Facts 1 & 2
- Image: Longmorn's famous onion-shaped stills
- Craft Facts 3
- Craft Facts 4 & 5
- Image: The current range of Longmorn
- Longmorn: Flavour
- Flavour Facts 1
- Flavour Facts 2 & 3
- Image: Longmorn tasting
- Longmorn: Did you know?
- Longmorn: Did you know? 1
- Longmorn: Did you know? 2
- Longmorn: Did you know? 3
- Longmorn: Did you know? 4
- Image: Longmorn's core range
- Longmorn: Quiz
- Quiz!