Tiden flyr og det var igjen Whisky smaking, kveldens vert er Kåre. Vi skal som vanlig smake på 3 Whiskyer og i kveld er alle fra Speyside. BenRiach 10YO Single Malt, Glenfarclas Single Malt 21 Years Old og
Glen Keith 21 Year Old 1996 – The First Editions (Hunter Laing).

Speyside

Mer en  60% av Scotland’s hele single malt produksjon  er fra distilleries i Speyside.

Speyside single malts are single malt Scotch whiskies, distilled in Strathspey, the area around the River Spey in Moray and Badenoch and Strathspey, in northeastern Scotland.

The two best-selling single malt whiskies in the world, The Glenlivet and Glenfiddich, come from Speyside. Strathspey has the greatest number of distilleries of any of the whisky producing areas of Scotland. Dufftown alone has six working distilleries with an annual capacity of 40.4m litres of spirit.

The Speyside distilleries are mainly operated by leading international drinks groups including Diageo, LVMH and Pernod Ricard, by family-owned companies including J. & G. Grant and William Grant & Sons and by The Edrington Group (majority owned by a charitable trust).

Scotland’s Malt Whisky Trail is a tourism initiative featuring eight Speyside distilleries and the Speyside Cooperage. Speyside also hosts an annual whisky festival known as «Spirit of Speyside».

Speyside whiskies can generally be classified as light and grassy (e.g. Glenlivet) or rich and sweet (e.g. Macallan).

BenRiach 10YO Single Malt
The flagship expression from the BenRiach distillery. This 10 year old Speyside single malt is drawn from ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks after at least a decade of slumber, resulting in a malt that shows off the distillery’s style wonderfully. Expect hearty barley backed up by orchard fruit and toasted almond, alongside just a hint of herbaceous oak.

Smak: Myk whisky med god fylde og preg av malt, fat og litt tørkete frukter, god lengde.
Lukt: Myk, fokusert og lett fatpreget aroma av malt, korn og litt blomst, hint av tørket frukt.
Farge: Lys gyllengul.
Produsent: The BenRiach Distillery Co Ltd
Distrikt, underdistrikt: Skottland, Speyside
Alkoholprosent: 43%
Uttales: BEN-REE-ACH

Distillery founder John Duff travelled to Kentucky and South Africa in pursuit of whisky adventures, returning to Scotland in 1898 to build the BenRiach Distillery. It is in his adventurous spirit that BenRiach boldly approaches the art of distillation and cask maturation. We call it BenRiach Maltology®

As progressive Speyside whisky distillers, BenRiach crafts unpeated, peated and triple distilled malt whisky and holds
some of the most experimental casks in Speyside. Small wonder the distillery team have nicknamed the distillery
‘The Lab’.

We are one of just two remaining distilleries in Speyside to distill whisky using malted barley from its own onsite floor
maltings, a time honoured method that is celebrated for one month each year.

Glenfarclas Single Malt 21 Years Old
A heavily sherried 21 year old from the Glenfarclas distillery. This offers loads of depth, a really thick dram and great value for money too.

Smak: Sammensatt og fint utviklet, preg av tørket frukt og malt, lang ettersmak. Fyldig.
Lukt: Aroma med fint maltpreg og innslag av pære, tørket frukt, fat og kokos, hint av røyk.
Farge: Middels dyp brungyllen.
Produsent: J&G Grant
Land, distrikt, underdistrikt:Skottland, Speyside
Alkoholprosent: 43%
Uttales: glen FÀRclass

History:
Glenfarclas distillery is a Speyside whisky distillery in Ballindalloch, Scotland. Glenfarclas translates as meaning valley of the green grass. The distillery is owned and run by the Grant family for 6 generations. The distillery has six stills which are the largest on Speyside and are heated directly by gas burners.

The distillery has a production capacity of around 3.5 million litres of spirit per year. Normally four stills are used for production with two kept in reserve.

The distillery has approximately 68,000 casks maturing on site, in traditional dunnage warehouses, with stock from every year from 1953 to the current year. Glenfarclas produce a traditional Highland malt with a heavy sherry influence.

Glenfarclas was one of the first distilleries to open a visitor centre in 1973

Glen Keith 21 Year Old 1996 – The First Editions

21 year old Glen Keith single malt, independently bottled by Hunter Laing as part of the literature-inspired First Editions range. It was aged in a sherry butt from 1996 to 2018, and was then bottled at cask strength with an outturn of 346 bottles.

Nose: Citrus blossom and forest floor give it a fragrant, earthy quality, while sultana and brioche bring sweetness to the nose.
Palate: Fresh raspberries, runny honey, Refresher bars, fennel seed.
Finish: Cigar box, rose and a little bit of orange sherbet.
Produsent: Glen Keith, Bottler: Hunter Laing
Land, distrikt, underdistrikt: Skottland, Speyside
Alkoholprosent: 57,2

History
Glen Keith is a modern distillery. When it opened in 1958, it was the first new distillery to open in Speyside since the great whisky crash of 1898. It therefore contrasts markedly with Strathisla – the oldest in Scotland.

Construction started in 1957 on the site of a meal-mill and was completed in 1960, initially with three stills with the intention of triple distillation. In 1970, two more stills were added when production was switched to double distillation. The new production method incorporated the novelty of the first gas-fired stills in Scotland. Three years later, steam coils were also installed.

The output of the distillery was originally used in blends such as Chivas Regal, Passport and 100 Pipers but Chivas Brothers also used it as a laboratory for experiments with innovations in production and processing, for example developing their own strains of yeast.

In the 1990s the distillery released an official bottling under the name Glen Keith 1983. This bottling was replaced a few years later by a 10-year-old single malt. It also produced two peated malts under the names Glenisla and Craigduff.

The Glen Keith distillery was mothballed in 1999. Extensive reconstruction work began in 2012 and the distillery was reopened in June 2013. At the time of the distillery’s reopening, Chivas Brothers intended that its annual production would be six million litres of spirit, almost all of which would be used in blended whiskies destined for export.

Whisky Fakta

Alkohol prosent, ABV, Proof, hva er det og hva betyr det.
Stort sett merkes flasker med ABV , alcohol by volum eller i USA Proof som er halvparten av ABV. Dvs. 100 Proof er 50% ABV.
Fransk mennene måtte jo sjølklart finne på noe eget, så de satte bare Proof = ABV.

Historisk :

100 proof var et gammelt mål på alkoholinnhold i destillert alkohol (brennevin).
Metoden for å måle var at en laget en liten haug med svartkrutt. Denne ble dynket med sprit til den ikke kunne holde mer uten at det rant utover. Når en satte fyr på blandingen og den brant med klar blå flamme, var spriten «100 proof». Var den sterkere eller svakere enn 57,15 volumprosent, ble forbrenningen merkbart forskjellig. Målemåten er kanskje mest kjent fra «det ville vesten», hvor den fungerte fordi den var ukomplisert og bare behøvde ingredienser en hadde adgang til.

I USA brukes enheten i dag slik at 1 proof er 1/2 vol.%, mens «100 Brit.Proof» fortsatt er 57 %

The gunpowder test was officially replaced by a specific gravity test in 1816.

Så, for å sammenligne de tre proof skalaene,
45%ABV er ca. 78.9 proof i UK, 90 proof i U.S, og 45 proof i Frankrike.

Da var vi i gang og det ble en kjempe kjekke kveld, med 3 fantastiske Whiskys, gjennomgang av protokoll og dagens saker. ( se møtereferat for info ). Kveldens whiskeys var Macallan 12, Oban 14 og Glenmorangie Signet. Valget av kveldens beste Whisky gikk knepent til The Macallan 12 YO.

Whisky fakta

Scottish whisky, må ha vært på eike fat i minst 3 år og produsert i skottland.Det finnes 128 distilleries, som exporterer 41 flasker i sekundet.

Hvis det står årstall, er det alder på yngste fat i “blend”. Hvis ikke er det “no age statement (NAS)”
Legges vanligvis på fat på ABV 63,5 %, ABV minsker 0.5%-1% pr år. 1-2% mengde forsvinner også, “Angle shares”

Skottland har 6 whisky regioner: Highlands, Speyside, Lowlands, Campbeltown, Islay and Islands. Disse har 20 millioner fat på lagring.

Mer en  60% av Scotland’s hele single malt produksjon  er fra distilleries i Speyside

Typer:

• Single malt Scotch whisky means a Scotch whisky produced from only water and malted barley at a single distillery by batch distillation in pot stills.
• Single grain Scotch whisky means a Scotch whisky distilled at a single distillery but, in addition to water and malted barley, may involve whole grains of other malted or unmalted cereals.

Three types of blends are defined for Scotch whisky:

• Blended malt Scotch whisky means a blend of two or more single malt Scotch whiskies from different distilleries.
• Blended grain Scotch whisky means a blend of two or more single grain Scotch whiskies from different distilleries.
• Blended Scotch whisky means a blend of one or more single malt Scotch whiskies with one or more single grain Scotch whiskies.

Single barrel/cask – Alle flasker fra samme “cask”, flaskene nummereres, batch, cask, 45-50%

Natural cask strength – Urørt rett fra fat, vanligvis på ABV 55-62%

Chill filtering – prevents the whisky from becoming hazy

Non-chill-filtered – reklameres som  «natural», «authentic», or «old-fashioned»

Coloring, spirit caramel, caramel coloring – Fargetilsetting , E150*, de trenger ikke oppgi det.

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The Macallan Double Cask 12 YO

Smak:Honning, sitrus, ginger og krydret eik.
Lukt: Karamell, kandiserte appelsin, eik, innslag av honning og toner av karamell.
Farge:Dyp gyllen.   ABV: 40%  Link
NOSE: Creamy butterscotch with a hint of toffee apple, candied orange, vanilla custard and newly felled oak.
PALATE: Deliciously honeyed, wood spices and citrus, balanced with raisins and caramel.
FINISH:Oak lingers, warm, sweet and drying.

Distillery: Macallan  Lokasjon: Craigellachie Region: Speyside Eiger: Edrington

The Macallan distillery was founded in 1824.

The Macallan single malt is a favourite with malt whisky drinkers worldwide and is often given the label «The Rolls-Royce of single malts».

Glenmorangie Signet

Smak:Krydder, bitter mokka, appelsin, kanel, kaffebønner og valnøtt.
Lukt: Mørk sjokolade. Hint av mint, plommesirup, kirsebær og kandisert appelsiner, ingefær og kanel.
Farge: Mørk rav.  ABV: 46%  Link, Non chill-filtered
Aroma: A strong Aruba espresso fused with a treacly plum pudding, rich with sherry, and candied orange peel.
Taste: A contrast of rich sweetness with an explosive crackle of sizzling spices and bitter mocha.
Finish: A fresh spring-like breeze of mint with a bright citrus lemony-green quality.

Distillery: Glenmorangie Lokasjon: Tain Region: Highland Eiger: LVMH

The Glenmorangie distillery has been producing its famous single malt since 1843. The distillery is at Tain overlooking the Dornoch Firth. The distillery was built using a pair of very high second hand gin stills. The original shape of these high stills still remains today. In fact the refinement and quality of Glenmorangie whisky is partially due to these very high stills which are the highest stills in Scotland.

The distillery buildings have seen many changes over the years, although the Glenmorangie whisky itself remains unchanged. It is still handcrafted to this day by the Sixteen Men of Tain using tried and tested methods that have been passed down from generation to generation. All the whisky produced at Glenmorangie is now bottled as a single malt and the distillery is quite unique in this respect. It is not without reason that this is one of the best selling single malts in UK.

Glenmorangie has long been known for its expertise in wood.

Oban Single Malt 14 Years Old

Smak:Litt rustikk whisky med god fylde og god lengde.
– orange peel, smoke, sea salt, and honey distinguish this full-bodied highland malt.
Lukt: Aroma med fint innslag av malt, torv og litt sjokolade.
Farge:Dyp gyllen.  ABV: 43%  Link

Distillery: Oban Lokasjon: Oban Region:Highland Eiger:Diageo

The Oban distillery was founded in 1794 .

“We are one of the smallest scotch distilleries. Each bottle comes from two stills.  You can bet we take very good care of both.​”

The house style for Oban malt is: Medium. Quite malty and sweet opening, with a medium body and a generous dry finish. A hint of spiciness perhaps, and seashore on the nose.

A large part of the production from the Oban distillery is used in blends such as Bell’s. Oban single malt found fame worldwide when UDV ( United Distillers and Vintners ) included it in their extremely popular Classic Malts Collection. Oban malt whisky is very highly rated by whisky connoisseurs.

Onsdag 13.2.2019 var ble Orstad Whiskyklubb Stiftet. Konstituere et styre og vedtekter formulert og vedtatt. Tilstede var: Kåre, Bjørn, Svein og Kenneth.

Møte ble holdt hos Svein og vi klubbet igjennom alt samtidig som vi smakte på en fortreffelig Highland Park 12 Year Old – Viking Honour

For mer info se referat i dokumentarkiv.