Tennessee Whiskey

Question 1

Definition

Answer 1

• straight bourbon whiskey produced in Tennessee

- uses Lincoln County Process

Question 2

Origin of Name

Answer 2

–Originally a part of the Colony of North Carolina, Tennessee stretched all the way t the Mississippi

Question 3

George Dickel

Answer 3

• founded the Cascade whisky distillery, 1870
• moved to Kentucky after early prohibition in 1911
• after Prohibition was rebuilt near its original location in Tennessee

Question 4

Milling

Answer 4

-ground and cooked in mash tubs with pure Cascade Spring water

Question 5

Cooking

Answer 5

-corn cooked alone, cooled then rye added, creating a liquid “mash”, malted barley is added to naturally convert starchy mash into a sweet mash

Question 6

Sour Mash

Answer 6

mash is soured by “spent beer”, the leftovers of the previous day’s double-distillation helping maintain consistency

Question 7

Fermentation

Answer 7

-proprietary yeast is added to mash that takes three or four days to yield alcohol”distiller’s beer”

Question 8

Distiller’s Beer

Answer 8

the mash that has gone through the fermentation process at abut 8%ABV

Question 9

Distillation

Answer 9

• distiller’s beer is pumped to the still house
• double distilled, first in column or “beer still”57.5%ABV
• second distillation in a pot still up to 67.5%ABV

Question 10

Maturation

Answer 10

-Aged in new American oak barrels with a #4charr on the staves and #2on the barrel heads

Question 11

Lincoln County Process

Answer 11

• whiskey is filtered through charcoal before going into barrels”charcoal mellowing”
• charcoal made from aged hard sugar maple trees and fired in open air