La Memoria - 9 "What's Difference?" (2)

Scotch, Bourbon, Whiskey

The main difference between scotch and whisky is geographic, but also ingredients and spellings. Scotch is whisky made in Scotland, while bourbon is whiskey made in the U.S.A, generally Kentucky. Scotch is made mostly from malted barley, while bourbon is distilled from corn.
If you’re in England and ask for a whisky, you’ll get Scotch. But in Ireland, you’ll get Irish whiskey (yep, they spell it differently for a little colour).

On this side of the pond, we have our own local color, too. The difference between Tennessee Whiskey, like Jack Daniel’s, for example, and Bourbon is that after the spirit is distilled, Tennessee Whiskey is filtered through sugar-maple charcoal.This filtering, known as the Lincoln County Process, is what distinguishes Tennessee Whiskey from your average Bourbon, like Jim Beam. The name, Bourbon, comes from an area known as Old Bourbon, around what is now Bourbon County, Kentucky.
On top of these types of whiskey, we also have Rye, which can refer either to American rye whiskey, which must be distilled from at least 51 percent rye or Canadian whisky, which may or may not actually include any rye in its production process. Confusing! Right?

>> Scotch adalah wiski yang di buat di Scotland sedangkan Bourbon adalah wiski yang di buat di Amerika. Scotch kebanyakan di buat dari barley (semacam gandum dan biasanya di pakai untuk membuat bir) yang di fermentasikan. Secara hukum, wiski Scotch harus di simpan di Skotlandia selama minimal 3 tahun sebelum di pasarkan ke negara lain.

Source : http://mentalfloss.com/article/30278/what%E2%80%99s-difference-between-scotch-whiskey-and-bourbon

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L.N
August 25th, 2014