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Intro:

1. What are we drinking
   1. Flavor/tasting notes
   2. Likes dislikes
   3. Recommend to buy or leave on the shelf?
2. Why are we drinking it?

What is scotch and isn’t it just whiskey?

• Scotland is said to be where Whiskey got started
  • Apparently they are better than us and spell it the property without an ‘e’.
  • The first written history dates back to1405
• Must be distilled in Scotland and aged in oak barrels for at least 3 years
  • They do not need to be new barrels
    • Most are ex-bourbon barrels since they have to be oak
• Typically it is distilled twice and to make things more complex there are different types of scotch

Types of Scotch:

• Single
  • Came from one distillery. Could be a blend of barrels from that one distillery, but there cannot be anything in that blend from another distillery
• Blended
  • A blend of barrels from other distilleries
    • Some are “left overs”
• Even within these two types there are other categories
  • Single Malt Scotch
  • Single Grain Scotch
  • Blended
  • Blended Malt
  • Blended Grain

Ingredients that form the mash bill:

Malted Barley – Is the main ingredient in Scotch and is made by soaking the barley in water.

Wheat or Corn – the other two grains used to make scotch that are not near as prominent, and only used in single grain or blends.

Single Malt and Single Grain – This is confusing as it doesn’t mean one single ingredient but instead a scotch from one distillery (that could be from different barrels from within that distillery) as opposed to blends that are a combination of scotches from different distilleries.

Blended Malt or Blended Grain – A blend of single grains from two or more distilleries.

Blended Scotch – Makes up 90% of all scotch sales, can be a blend of malts and grains from several different distilleries.

Peat - Used as fuel to dry out the grains in some of the distilleries. Scotland is the main place that uses this in their process, but not the only one. This process is also not used in every distillery. It is more prominent in single malt scotches than in blended ones. A smokier scotch will have used peat in their process.

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Chasing Whiskey

Whiskey chasers updates

• A new year starts with the club after finishing our Sourcing bottles
  • Top 3 bottles
  • Micah-4 gate
• Starting our finishing series

Podcast updates

• Updates from last episode
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Craft distillery news

• Watershed releases 6 single barrels with OHLQ
  • Each bottle labeled with a royal flush
  • https://www.watersheddistillery.com/ohlq-exclusive-2024
• Balcones Mirador Eclipse Texas Single Malt Whisky
  • ASM made with Wine yeast strains, Red wine and Rose wine
  • https://www.balconesdistilling.com/spirits/mirador-eclipse
• Wyoming Distillery
  • Independence Rock Wyoming exclusive Bourbon
  • Meant to honor the pioneers of the west
  • They were kind enough to send us a sample so stay tuned for that!
  • https://craftspiritsmag.com/2024/06/25/wyoming-whiskey-introduces-independence-rock/

Welcome to Chasing Whiskey, the Whiskey Chasers update and News episode! And I am your only host today, Steve! We record our episodes in batches and sometimes months before the episode comes out, because of this we don't have a chance to speak to you and get feedback and updates in real time, so I figured we should do these short little episodes and just talk about the things that the club is doing, the podcast, as well as a little news from the craft distillery world that we all know and love!

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• History of distillery
• Established in 1986, the Very Olde St. Nick (VOSN) brand was started by Marci Palatella to capitalize on the growing demand in Japan for ultra-aged bourbon.
• Marci worked for Jullian Van Winkle III as his agent in the japanese market
• The brand was designed around bringing the best aged and best tasting whiskey to the Japanese market.
  • Originally sourcing its barrels from the Old Commonwealth distillery (Van Winkle’s distillery)
  • Was then sourced from Willet
  • Now produce their own
• Since the brand was started around fantastic whiskey that had some age to it, they hit a rough spot in 2015 when whiskey started to take off in the US
• Marci bought up an old tobacco farm, in Nelson County (Bardstown KY) to build a craft distillery on.
  • Preservation distillery
• They currently distill in very small batches
  • 1-3 barrels
• The idea behind such small batches is that they are not looking to rush the process. They want to distill the same aged, delicious whiskey that they have been sourcing. owner/s

• This bottle story
  • This brand has a habit of embellishing and just making things up, so take it with a grain of salt
  • They found some barrels in an old warehouse from a shuttered distillery. After tasting them, they purchased the lot of rare perfection and they continued to age there in canada
  • The aging happened in a single story warehouse in canada. Because of the cold there is less interaction with the wood
• Theory
  • It doesn't say, but this 4 grain doesn't seem to have been made the canada way with aging separately
• The juice
  • Aged and bottled in canada
  • 4 grain bourbon mash bill
    • Not disclosed but most believe it to be high wheat

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