Fac Potiones Excellens

Tipples → Alcoholic Beverage Products → Distillates → Spirits → Direct Spirits

Whiskies

Whiskey is distilled from beer, which is fermented from grain. Though other grains are used, barley should be considered the default grain used in making both beer and whiskey. The vast majority of all types of whiskey are made with at least some barley. Barley has earned its postion at the core of whiskey through its diastatic power of fermentation. Barley's big, round, buttery-porridge flavor is at least part of the flavor of almost every type of whiskey.

A trend has emerged in America of producing whiskey of types that formerly always were fermented by the use of malted barley now with little barley, or none at all. These supermajority whiskies somethimes are made with liquid enzymes instead of malted barley. This is perfect for making whiskies that will have none of the flavor most traditionlal to whiskey for a mllenium.

Other grains are used, sometimes without the assistance of barley, to make alternative sorts of whiskey. Whether such is a pure-rye Monongahela-style whiskey, a Sherry-aged rice whisky from Japan, or the expensive plaything of Asian millionaires, Kweichow moutai, worthy whiskies without barley do exist.

WHISKEY MASH BILLS AND BLEND BILLS

Barley Whiskies

Barley whiskies are distilled from distiller's beer fermented from barley – some, or all, of which will have been malted. Barley whiskies famously come from Scotland and Ireland, plus all places influenced by the global Celtic diaspora.

BARLEY WHISKIES

Rye Whiskies

Rye whiskies are distilled from distiller's beer fermented from rye – most-often with some malted barley for fermentation and flavor. Rye whiskies include: Pnnsylvania-style, Monongahela-style, Maryland-style, and Supermajority-rye.

Maize Whiskies

Maize whiskies are distilled from distiller's beer fermented from maize – most-often with some malted barley for fermentation and flavor. Maize whiskies include: corn whiskey, Bourbon-style whiskey, and Tennessee-style whiskey.

Wheat Whiskies

Maize whiskies are distilled from distiller's beer fermented from wheat – most-often with some malted barley for fermentation and flavor.

Rice Whiskies

Rice whiskies are distilled from beer, specifically sake, fermented from rice – including some having been transformed into nuruk cakes or koji rice for fermentation and flavor. Rice whiskies include, traditional Korean distilled soju, and traditional Japanese distilled shochu.

Sorghum Whiskies

Sorghum whiskies are distilled from beer fermented from sorghum – including some having been transformed into daqu for fermentation and flavor. Sorghum whiskies include Mao Tai and Er Guo Tou Jiu.