Second 'Golden age' for Scots whisky industry

Gloomendoom

lvader wrote: »

I feel I've made a hefty contribution in the increase of whiskey sales over the last few years. :beer:

You don't like Scotch then?

IveSeenTheLight

daveyjp wrote: »

Bertie. Whisky is produced all over the world and the first stage is no different from making beer and small breweries are everywhere.

The main problem for new entrants in whisky making is securing capital to produce a product and store it for years before being able to sell any of it.

I had always considered Whisky to be Scottish whilst Whiskey to be American / Irish.

BertieUK

daveyjp wrote: »

Bertie. Whisky is produced all over the world and the first stage is no different from making beer and small breweries are everywhere.

The main problem for new entrants in whisky making is securing capital to produce a product and store it for years before being able to sell any of it.

The Distilleries that I used to visit, with groups that is, very often said that the local water supply had a bearing on the taste, probably the peat that the water has passed through.

I remember one Distillery saying that a Japanese company had shipped out millions of gallons of the local water to try and achieve the same taste as this famous brand.

The storage must run at a very high cost even providing the security, one distillery had a flock of geese as to deter anyone trying to break in to the building.

zagubov

BertieUK wrote: »

The Distilleries that I used to visit, with groups that is, very often said that the local water supply had a bearing on the taste, probably the peat that the water has passed through.

I remember one Distillery saying that a Japanese company had shipped out millions of gallons of the local water to try and achieve the same taste as this famous brand.

The storage must run at a very high cost even providing the security, one distillery had a flock of geese as to deter anyone trying to break in to the building.

A few days ago I drove past a bonded warehouse in Glasgow, a giant rambling vault of a place where the whisky is stored whileit ages. The building's supposed to hold more wealth than some countries own.