Send Whiskey to the United Kingdom

Before you start sending your loved ones a fine bottle of Whiskey to the United Kingdom, let’s talk about the delicate process of making this one-of-a-kind beverage. .Whiskey, like many things in life, seems mysterious and the subject of much confusion with so many sub-categories and styles. Let’s break it down to your average home canner. “Blend whiskey with water to form a smooth paste,” you might be saying to yourself or your wife/husband/children. Whiskey is a unique kind of spirit alcohol beverage produced from fermented grain mash. The production begins with malting or the stage where the barley that contains starch requires it to be in the form of soluble sugars to produce the product.

Beer is fermented in hot air-conditioned breweries to produce a pale yellowish beer when it’s drawn from the fermenting vats. The highly flammable hops are added during the cold fermentation phase to provide a distinct flavor.

The mash will then be placed in a large container called a “mash tun”. The Mash Tun will stir the mixture for long hours, to let the sugar in the mal disintegrate and disappear. Once the sugar has completely disappeared, the mixture inside the Mash Tun will then be called “wort”

The wort will be transferred to the washback and then put into the fermentation tanks. From here it takes about 2 weeks for the yeast to start fermenting and by pressing down on the mash you’re able to spot and stop fermentation. The fermentation will typically take at least 48 hours until the fermented liquid completely turns into a “wash”.

The wash will then be distilled, and as for the last process, distilleries typically do the distillation a couple of times. Almost all distilleries distill the wash over three times. After the long and delicate process, the distilled wash will then be kept in oak barrels where they are stored in Scotland. 

The distillery will not be able to recreate the barrel-stored whiskey inside oak barrels for at least three years.