Title: Beginner's Guide to Bourbon and Tennessee Whiskey - Paste
Headings: Beginner's Guide to Bourbon and Tennessee Whiskey
Beginner's Guide to Bourbon and Tennessee Whiskey
But What is Whiskey?
Taste Test
Naming Whiskey
Bourbon
Tennessee Whiskey
How to Drink It
bourbon
drink
the feature
jack daniels
whiskey
woodford reserve

Content: The most common grains used for whiskey production are rye, malted barley and corn. Each grain adds different qualities to a spirit’s taste: rye will typically add spiciness, pepper, and a darker flavor. Malted barley gives a malty roundness, while corn adds sweetness, creaminess, and popcorn-y flavor. To begin the fermentation process, the water and grain are combined in a mash tub, and then transferred to a fermenter. Here, a combination of yeast and naturally occurring enzymes in the malted barley begins the fermentation process. Because the yeast (and how long the solution is allowed to ferment) impacts the sugar content of the final product, changing the strain that’s used can completely change the final product’s taste. The end result of this process is a thin alcoholic liquid known as distiller’s beer. This liquid is then transferred into a still. Most distillers use copper stills because of a specific reaction between the distillate and the metal in the still that removes unwanted sulfur and sulfide compounds.