The Whiskey Trail, Taste the Spirit of Ireland
Peg Whisky’s blended scotch brings together the best of both malt and grain whisky to give Peg Whisky its unique taste and character. It is a smooth, easy drinker and very approachable for a novice whisky fan at 40%. It’s a dram everyone can enjoy neat, on the rocks, or in a cocktail. Our suggestion is a classic Old Fashioned Peg Style.
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Peg Whisky has just released their first ever Small Batch Exclusive. Peg Whisky Small Batch Exclusive Series 1 is bottled at 46% and non-chill filtered, there is only 3000 bottles released in Series 1. This whisky is an easy-drinking blended Scotch. I tried this one initially in a Glencarin whiskey glass and then a Tuath Glass the former seemed to focus the dark woody notes and bitter spices. The latter opened up the flavours and and helped me discover more of the depth and layuers of sweet vanilla, chocolate, honey and floral malt.
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Before we get things started, there may be some of you out there who are unfamiliar with the concept of ‘peated’ whiskies. In essence, it just means smoked whiskey, just like you see in salmon and bacon – similar concept. In Ireland and Scotland, barley is traditionally the key ingredient in whiskey production. But barley has very low sugar content, and to produce alcohol, yeast has to eat sugar present in the grain. So how do we kickstart the barley into producing sugar? We trick it in to germinating, a process called ‘malting’. After roughly three days of this malting, the barley has produced the required amount of glucose. At this stage we need the barley to stop malting immediately and to do this we blast the malted barley with heat.
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