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1
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What are the 5 regions of Scotch production?

A
  • Highland
  • Lowland
  • Speyside
  • Campbeltown
  • Islay
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What are the hallmarks of Canadian whiskey?

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  • high rye percentage (usually)
  • usually blended
  • must age 3 years
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What is the largest region of production in Scotland?

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Highland

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What are the only 3 distilleries in Campbeltown?

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  • Glen Scotia
  • Glengyle
  • Springbank
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5
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What is the min age requirement for Irish whiskey?

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3 years (7 is common)

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What is ‘straight’ bourbon?

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  • aged 2 years
  • no added colors/flavors
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What is the base of Nikka Coffey Grain Whiskey?

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100% corn

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What is the difference between Hibiki and Yamazaki?

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  • Hibiki are blended
  • Yamazaki are single malt
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What defines a single grain Scotch?

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  • produced at one distillery
  • made with unmalted barley, wheat, or corn
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10
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What percentage of Bourbon is produced in Kentucky?

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95%

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What region produces the lightest and least smoky style of Scotch?

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Lowland

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12
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What is the age requirement for Scotch?

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min 3 years (much longer is common)

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Which region is home to over half of Scotland’s distilleries?

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Speyside

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14
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Where is Highland Park distillery located?

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Orkney

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Name 2 producers of Islay whisky

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  • Laguvulin
  • Laphroiag
  • Caol Ila
  • Ardbeg
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What 4 islands are included in the Highland region of Scotch production?

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  • Skye
  • Jura
  • Mull
  • Orkney
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List a Lowland Scotch

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  • Glenkinchie
  • Auchentoshan
  • Bladnoch
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What Scotch region produces the most peaty and smoky whisky?

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Islay

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What are the 5 categories of Scotch?

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single malt
- made from malted barley
- distilled in a pot still at a single distillery

single grain
- may include un-malted barley and other grains such as wheat and corn
- must be distilled at single distillery

blended malt
- blend of malt whiskies
- different distilleries

blended grain
- blend of 2 or more grain whiskies
- different distilleries

blended
- mixture of malt and grain whiskies from multiple distilleries

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List 2 Highland Scotch producers

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  • Oban
  • Glenmorangie
  • Dalwhinnie
  • Dalmore
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What is unique about Irish whiskey?

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use of unmalted barley (due to historic English taxes)

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How many times must Scotch be distilled?

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2 times (pot still)

23
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List a Speyside Scotch

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  • Glenlivet
  • Glenfiddich
  • Macallan
  • Balvenie
24
Q

Who distilled the first whiskey in Kentucky (1789)?

A

Rev Elijah Craig

25
Q

What are the requirements to be labeled Bourbon?

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  • min 51% corn
  • aged in charred new oak cask
  • must state age length on bottle is aged less than 4 years
26
Q

What are the requirements to be labeled Tennessee whiskey?

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  • manufactured in TN
  • must be maple charcoal filtered prior to aging
27
Q

What are the 2 most well known producers of Tennessee whiskey?

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  • Jack Daniels
  • George Dickel
28
Q

Describe sour mash

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a portion of spent mash is incorporated into newly fermented mash

29
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What is the requirement to be labeled rye whiskey?

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  • min 51% rye
  • aged in charred new oak barrels min 2 years
30
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What are the requirements to be labeled corn whiskey?

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  • min 80% corn
  • unaged or aged in uncharred new barrels
31
Q

What is the min abv for Scotch?

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40%

32
Q

Why are most whiskies not aged longer that 32 years?

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evaporation over time would weaken the spirit too much to meet legal abv min

33
Q

List the 5 major Scotch producing Islands

A
  • Skye
  • Jura
  • Mull
  • Arran
  • Orkney
34
Q

What is the most well regarded Scotch on the Island of Skye?

A

Talisker

35
Q

What is wood finishing in Scotch production?

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  • developing whiskey ss transferred to a different cask for the last 2-3 years of its aging
  • softens and adds frutiness
  • Port, Sherry, Madeira, Burgundy, and Sauternes barrels used
36
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What are the 3 major distilleries in Ireland?

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  • Old Bushmills
  • Cooley
  • New Middleton (Jameson)
37
Q

What is the northernmost distillery in Scotland?

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Highland Park (Orkney)

38
Q

What do the terms Glenn and Furth mean?

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glenn - hillside/ field
furth - water source (like a fjord)

39
Q

What is the organization “Keeper of the Quaich” in Scotland?

A

producer organization that promotes Scotch

40
Q

Name 3 whiskies made at the New Middelton distillery

A
  • Jameson
  • Redbreast
  • Blue/Green/Red/Yellow Spot
  • Powers
  • Paddy
  • Middleton Very Rare
41
Q

Why do rickhouses have dirt floors?

A

to maintain humidity levels

42
Q

Where is the most prized water found in Ireland for whiskey?

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  • Bush River
  • St Columb’s Rill tributary
43
Q

What is the oldest whiskey distillery in the world?

A

Old Bushmills (1608)

44
Q

What bottlings are found in the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection?

A
  • William Larue Weller
  • Sazerac Rye 18
  • Thomas Handy Rye
  • George T Stagg
  • Eagle Rare 17
45
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What was the first single barrel Bourbon?

A

Blantons

46
Q

What is the oldest distillery in the USA?

A

Buffalo Trace

47
Q

What is produced in Port Charlotte?

A

Scotch

48
Q

Where is the Glenora distillery? What style of whisky do they specialize in?

A
  • Cape Breton Island of Nova Scotia
  • malt whisky in the style of Scotch
49
Q

How many times must Irish whiskey be distilled?

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3 times

50
Q

What is Connemara?

A

A peat-fired, Single Malt Irish whiskey produced by Cooley

51
Q

What are two producers that are pioneers of the wood-finished style?

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  • Glenmorangie
  • Balvenie
52
Q

Speyside uses water from what river for its production?

A

River Spey

53
Q

What is the oldest commercial distillery in Scotland?

A

Glenturret (est 1775)

54
Q

What is the Gaelic word for Water of Life (scotch)?

A

uisge beatha (ish-ka ba-ha)

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