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Gaelic distillery names and pronunciation
Published 19/08/2021
Aberfeldy Pronounced aberFELdy “The confluence of Palladius or Paldoc” Aber (Brythonic-Pictish - confluence or river mouth) Phellaidh (Old Gaelic - St. Paldoc, christian missionary). Aberlour Pronounced aberLOUR generally translated as ‘the mouth of the chattering burn’ this is more literally “Loud Confluence” Aber(Brythonic-Pictish - confluence or river mouth) labhar (Gaelic - loud). Allt a Bhainne Pronounced altà VANJA means “Burn of Milk” referring to the fact that the area was used to milk cattle.
Whisky glossary
Published 19/08/2021
Looking for the meaning of a particular word? This page should help you explain it’s meaning. If you find any missing words, be sure to let us know and we’ll include it. ABV “Alcohol By Volume”, how much alcohol does the Whisky contain, measured in percentages (%). Another way to indicate this is Proof. Depending on the country, Whisky must at least contain 40% or 43% alcohol. Aftershots The run from the spiritstill (the second and mostly final distillation for Single Malts) is divided in three sections.
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Locations of the malthouses in Scotland & the UK
Published 16/08/2021
Maltings produce ready to use malted barley for the whisky industry. While small inhouse maltings like those at Bowmore carry out steeping, germination and kilning seperately thse stages can be combined at scale. At industrial sites the production process can be carried out in a combination of seperate or dedicated devices such as: Dedicated conical or flat-bottomed steeping vessels Dedicated germination x Kilns Combined steeping and germination vessels (SGV) Germination and Kilning Vessels (GKV) Steeping, germination and kilning vessels (SGKV) Most modern maltings utilise entirely automated systems throughout the process.
Locations of the malthouses in Scotland & the UKAlfred Barnard: An Introduction
Published 22/07/2020
The following is a message from one of only two surviving decedents of the Enigma that is Alfred Barnard and considerably increases the knowledge we have of the man. What a fantastic photo of Alfred and I like the thoughts you express about him. It has cleared up an old mystery of the unidentified gentleman in the photos, which I have scanned into this e-mail. These are with my Grandfather Harold Barnard and Grandmother Cecile Perrier taken we think at the Perrier family home in South Norwood in 1904/1905 around the time of their marriage.
Alfred Barnard: Further Information
Published 22/07/2020
“We got a little amusement out of our fellow travellers—one of them a gentleman in clerical attire, catching some fragments of our conversation on spirits, evidently mistook us for important officers of the Salvation Army. Seeing this we puzzled him, and in answer to his enquiries, informed him that we had just started on a long and tedious pilgrimage to the spirit land, and that ours was a mission of investigation into the creation, development and perfection of crude spirits into “spirits made perfect.