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...ain mash and aged in wooden casks. Different grains are used for different varieties, including barley, malted barley, rye, malted rye, wheat, and maize. Whisky or whisky-like products are produced in...
Does an open bottle of Scotch ever go bad? When I buy and open a bottle of single malt scotch, then put the cap/cork back in, will it taste the same a month from then and then two or four from then a
...sted some bourbon. Any recommendations on a great smooth, sweet and kind whiskey? Do they have "single-malt" bourbon?...
...also were high on Abelour, but from what people here have told me, Talisker seems the better single malt of the two. How does Talisker compare to Laphroig?...
...mpster. I, OTOH, understand the legitimacy of fine stemware, and have a specific question: is a single malt glass superior to, say, a cognac glass (not a brandy snifter)? I have a very nice Spiegelau...
Hi everyone- work at a wine store in St. Louis that has a small, but good selection of Single Malts, and blended scotches. Recently we started carrying a scotch by John Barr (from Scotland...dist
...Coopers IPA, I`ve decided to forgo the usual 1 kg of dextrose with brew booster and use a can of amber malt extract instead. This, of course, adds considerably to the expense of making the brew. I ...
...alcohol. Anyway, my question is - what Scotch do you like to drink with ice? Are there any single malts/blended that really taste great with ice? I just might be forced to get out my bottle of...
If you had to choose, which single malt would you prefer, Abelour or Talisker? What are the virtues and shortcomings of either single malt?
... have decided to make a home brew and would like to get an opinion on kits (cans of concentrated hopped malt) vs brewing from scratch (ie. buying the hops, malt, etc). What is the comparitive labour r...
..., I`m using a Beer Machine as the primary fermentation vessel. The wort was produced from a hopped dry malt extract that I rehydrated using room temp. tap water directly in the primary vessel. I pi...
Hey all! Anyone seen the McClelland`s brand of single malt scotches? They are marketed as Speyside, Islay, etc. with no distillery name or anything. As with the "Own Brand" thread from the UK, I as
While on a trip to Scotland a few years ago I was introduced to the joys of single malt whiskey (when in Rome and such...). Since then I`ve dicovered that several of my co-workers and close friends
...es on the Lagavulin; I`ll assume everyone reading this is familiar with it. It is hands-down the best malt of the three and an all-time favorite at our house. Where the Dun Bheagan and Ileach are...
I have an Alt in the fermenter. The gas passing through the air lock originally had a normal hoppy, malty, yeast smell. After a couple of days the gas has taken on a sulfury - mild rotten egg odor.
OK, so I can't get Lagavulin here right now, but an interesting looking malt just showed up here. The embossing on the bottle says "Glen Roth's" which I've not heard of before, nor is it in my whisky
Hello. I'm looking into buying a bottle of single malt whiskey for my professor before leaving grad school. However, being a teetotaler myself, I'm at a loss as to what to purchase. I'm fishing fo
I am a confirmed (and hardened ) malt drinker, but someone has just made me a present of this whisky. Am I going to be disappointed?
I have managed to develop a taste in the past year or so for single malt Scotch - enjoying it neat, generally when I'm on-the-road. To date I have purchased only one bottle - a Macallan 18. It is ver
... Sunday of brewing my first beer. It’s similar to Guinness I got everything from the brew store; dry malt extract, milled grains, yeast, Irish moss. Followed the directions and sanitized everythin...
... Los Angeles area and interested, let me know. my Price: $52.00 store price: $68.00 FYI: A rare single malt created for the connoisseur, Glenfiddich Ancient Reserve 18 Year Old is a fine testament to...
...need to add salts? I think I read somewhere that calcium and magnesium is needed in the mash, but the malt already has plenty....
Well folks, what can I say. I went looking for my third single malt Scotch today. I had a nice little list of Scotch's that I wrote down from your recommendations. I don't think any of you recommen
Malt Advocate`s annual Whisky Awards were announced at WhiskyFest last Wednesday, thought I`d post them here. Text (which is basically the explanation and justification) will be released in January.
...ed in Chicago by the Monarch Brewery, Augsburger Golden and Augsburger Dark Bier are Bavarian-style all-malt beers brewed under license by Wisconsin`s Stevens Point Brewery. Union Beverage Co., a b...
This is probably my 4th or 5th time brewing malt beer and at about 3 days fermenting stage I have noticed a green foamy scum floating on the top. On every other batch before this, there has been a f
Does anyone have a recipe for smirnoff ice, or any other of the malt beverages ( Mikes hard lemonade,ect...) currently on the market.
...uty-free shop and it turned out to be the BEST stuff that my father likes -- he's 82, loves his single-malt every day. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find it in a domestic liquor shop. The onl...
Hi all, Trader Joe's here in So. Cal. has a single malt called Finlaggan on sale. The ad says "Finlaggan Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky is the best-kept secret of one of Scotland's best distilleries
...tter" beer using kits obtained from various home-brew stores, typically the type of kit 1.8 kgs hopped malt extract to which the instructions say to add 1 kg of sugar. In the past these would ferme...
...been getting a little more serious about my scotch drinking and have really started to enjoy the single malts, especially the Islay's like Laphroaig and Lagavulin...what flavor! The question I have ...
...ed commercially by large breweries in areas that are struggling economically. So I suppose that black malt rather than roasted barley was used. Also roasted barley is not malt, thus not a reinheits...
Could someone tell me what is the equivalent to 1 kg of spraymalt - in malt extract syrup?
Just saw this in the latest Malt Advocate that Sam's has purchased their own cask of Springbank 12 Year Old from sherrywood and they are selling bottles at 50% abv.... I'm curious, has anyone on the g
...hu 12yr scotch on sale, $20 out the door. What can I expect from this (I don`t know much about single malts)? Should I give it as a gift - house warming? Is it a good scotch for non-scotch drinkers...
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