Making sweet water
The dried malt is milled and steeped in hot water in a mash tun, washing its sugars out into a sweet liquid called wort. American distillers cook their corn and rye into a porridge-like mash instead — same idea, different grain.
By the end you'll understand how sweet water becomes the 8% 'beer' every whisky begins as.
The dried malt is milled and steeped in hot water in a mash tun, washing its sugars out into a sweet liquid called wort. American distillers cook their corn and rye into a porridge-like mash instead — same idea, different grain.
The places this lesson covers, in the Atlas.