INDEX

Aberlour a’bunadh 1

acids 1, 2, 3

aftertaste 1

Alberta Premium Dark Horse 1

aldehydes 1, 2–3

American whiskies 1–2, 3, 4, 5–6

straight 1, 2

see also bourbon; Tennessee whisky

Amrut Fusion 1

‘angel’s share’ 1, 2

Antiquary 12, The 1

Ardbeg 10 1

Ardbeg Uigeadail 1

Ardmore Traditional Cask 1

‘backset’ 1

Balcones 1

Balcones Crooked Texas Straight Bourbon 1

Balcones Texas Single Malt 1

Balcones True Blue 1

Ballantine’s 17 1

Balvenie Portwood 21 1

barley

malted 1, 2, 3–4, 5

unmalted 1–2, 3

Battle Point Organic Washing Whisky 1

Beam Suntory 1, 2, 3

beer 1–2, 3

Belgian Owl Single Malt 1

Benromach 10 1

Black Bull 12, The 1

Black Grouse 1

Blanton’s Original Single Barrel 1

blended whiskies 1, 2–3

Scotch 1, 2–3, 4

Blue Hanger 1

Bobby Burns 1

Boece, Hector 1

Booker’s 1

Boulevardier 1

bourbon 1, 2–3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9–10, 11

Bowmore 12 1

Broom, Dave 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Brown Forman 1

Buchanans 1

buckwheat 1

Bulleit Bourbon 1

Bushmills 1, 2, 3

Bushmills Black Bush 1

Bushmills Malt 1

Canadian Club Chairman’s Select 100 Rye Whisky 1

Canadian whiskies 1, 2, 3, 4–5

Caola Ila 12 1

caramel(s) 1, 2

Caribou Crossing Single Barrel 1

casks, oak 1–2, 3–4

and evaporation 1

making 1

moving into different 1

small cask ageing 1, 2–3

toasting and charring 1, 2

used and unused 1

Chichibu Peated 1

chill filtering 1

clouding 1

Clynelish 1

cocktails 1, 2, 3

Coffey Grain Whisky 1

Coffey stills 1; see column stills

cogeners 1, 2, 3

Colonel EH Taylor Small Batch 1

colour(ing) 1, 2, 3

column stills 1, 2

Connemara 12 Peated 1

copper: and flavour 1

Cor, Brother John 1, 2

corn 1

corn whisky 1

Corsair Triple Smoke 1

Cowdery, Chuck 1, 2

craft distilleries 1

Craigellachie 13 1

Crown Royal XO 1

Crown Royal Hand Selected Barrel 1

Cutty Sark 18 1

Dalmore Aurora 1–2

Dalmore Cigar Malt 1

Dewar (John) & Son 1

Dewar’s 18 1

Diageo 1, 2, 3, 4

Dickel, George 1

distillation 1, 2, 3–4

dunnage warehouses 1, 2

East Meets West 1

esters 1, 2

ethanol 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

evaporation 1, 2

Fancy Scotch Mist 1

fermentation 1–2, 3

food: and whisky 1–2

Forty Creek John’s Private Cask No 1 1

Four Roses 1, 2

Four Roses Single Barrel 1

Freakishly Fabulous Fascinating Fig Fashioned 1

Gibson’s Finest Rare 18 1

Glenfiddich 1

Glenfiddich 18 1

Glengoyne 1–2

Glenlivet 1

Scotch Ushers Old Vatted Glenlivet 1

Glenmorangie Signet 1

grain whisky 1, 2–3, 4–5, 6, 7

grains 1, 2–3

peating 1

roasting 1–2

Green Spot 1

Greenlees Bros 1

Greenore 8 1

grist mills 1

Haig Dimple 15 1

Hakushu 1, 2, 3

Hakushu 12 1

Hanyu whisky 1

Heaven Hill 1, 2

Hedonism 1

Hibiki 21 1

higher alcohols 1

Highland Park 21 1

Highwood Ninety 20 1

independent bottlers 1

Irish pot still whisky 1, 2–3, 4, 5, 6

Irish whiskies 1–2, 3, 4–5, 6

Jameson Special Reserve 12 1

Japanese whiskies 1, 2, 3–4, 5

Johnny Drum Private Stock 1

Johnnie Walker 1

Johnnie Walker Black Label 1

Karuizawa 1981–1984 1

Kavalan Single Malt 1

Kilbeggan 15 1

Koval Single Barrel Bourbon 1

labels 1, 2–3

Laddie 10, The 1

Lagavulin 16 1

Laphroaig 10 1

Laphroaig Quarter Cask 1

Lark Distillers Selection 1

Lee, Elmer T. 1

Lot 40 1

low wines 1

Macallan 1

MacBeathads, the 1

McCarthy’s Oregon Single Malt 1

Mackie & Co. 1

Mackinlay’s The Journey 1

Mackmyra Brukswhisky 1

Mackmyra First Edition 1

Maker’s Mark 1

malt whiskies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

single 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

malting barley 1–2

Mars Malt: The Revival 1

‘mash’ 1, 2, 3, 4

spent mash 1

mashbills 1, 2

mash tun 1

Mastersons 10 Year Old Straight Rye 1

maturation, rates of 1, 2–3

MGP Indiana 1

micro distilleries 1, 2, 3

Midleton 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Midleton Very Rare 1

millet 1

Millstone 100 Rye 1

mixing whisky 1–2

see also cocktails

Miyagikyo 10 1

Nant 3 1

NAS (no age statement) whiskies 1–2, 3

new make 1

new world whismies 1–2

Nikka 1, 2

Nikka Coffee Malt Whisky 1

Nikka Whisky From the Barrel 1

The Nikka 1, 2

Noah’s Mil 1

nosing 1, 2

NPDs (non producing distillers) 1

oak, flavours of 1

see also casks, oak

oats 1

Oban 14 1

O’Cathain, Aine 1

Octave and Quarter Cask Range 1

Old Forester Birthday Bourbon 1

Old Hobart Overeem Port Matured 1

Old Pulteney 17 1

peating grains 1

Penicillin, The 1

Pernod Ricard 1, 2

pot stills 1, 2, 3

Powers Gold Label 1

‘proof’ 1

Quandt, Richard E. 1, 2–3

quinoa 1

racked warehouses 1, 2

Redbreast 12 1

Rittenhouse Straight Rye 1

Rogers, Adam 1, 2

Royal Salute 21 1

rye 1, 2

rye whisky 1

St George’s Chapter 14 1

Scotch whiskies 1, 2–3, 4

‘setback’ 1

single malts see malt whiskies

spelt 1

Springbacnk 10 1

Stagg, George T 1, 2

Stein, Robert 1

stills 1–2, 3

strength, measuring 1–2

Sullivans Cove Double Cask 1

sulphuric flavours 1, 2

Suntory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Taketsuru, Masataka 1–2

Taketsuru 17 1

Talisker 1, 2

tannins 1, 2, 3

tasting, whisky 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7

Teeling 1, 2

Teeling Single Grain 1

Teeling Single Malt 1

Tennessee whisky 1, 2, 3

Torii, Shinjiro 1

Tyrconnell Sherry Cask 1

vanilla/vanillin 1, 2

warehouses 1, 2

‘wash’ 1

washbacks 1

Weller, W L 1

wheat 1

Wild Turkey 1

Wild Turkey 101 1

Wiser’s 18 1

wort 1, 2, 3

Yamazaki 1, 2, 3

Yamazaki 18 1

Yamazaki Sherry Cask 1

yeast, distiller’s 1