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• n  a liquor made from fermented mash of grain

• Speyside Cooperage has been family owned since 1947 and produces the finest casks from American Oak, providing a vital ingredient in Scotland's whisky making process.
• Serious drinkers like to say that there are three kinds of whisky"cookin' whisky, drinkin' whisky, and sippin' whisky.
• Head for the highlands! For the seventh year running, the Spirit of Speyside festival is about to salute Scotland's best-known export whisky.

• whiskey

News & Articles

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• Startup Uses 100-year-old Technology To Make Biofuel From Whisky Byproduct
  redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Scottish start-up Celtic Renewables is bringing back a once popular fermentation process that it says can be used to produce superior next-generation biofuels from the byproducts of various biological industries. The company is initially focused on the $6 billion Scottish Malt Whisky industry as a ready resource for developing biobutanol, a ...
  June 18, 2013 - redOrbit
• Whyte & Mackay Americas And Blackheath Beverage Group Announce Sales Partnership In The U.S.
  STAMFORD, Conn., June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Whyte & Mackay Americas has engaged Blackheath Beverage Group to further develop the national sales representation of the Whyte & Mackay Scotch Whisky portfolio. ...
  June 17, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Whisky a Go Go: Can Scotland’s Distillery Waste Boost Biofuels?
  Scotland's whisky industry churns out a sobering amount of waste, but it may eventually feed a heady biofuels market if Celtic Renewables' plans succeed.
  June 14, 2013 - National Geographic

Quotes

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• Angus Robertson in BBC News
  Mr Robertson, who represents the malt whisky-producing Moray constituency, said: "The chancellor did not even have the decency to specifically mention his tax increase on the whisky industry. The bad news was buried deep in the pre-budget report."
• Jim Murphy in BBC News
  Secretary of State for Scotland Jim Murphy said: "It is vital that we protect our key industries. We cannot allow others to trade off our good name and to pass off inferior whisky as being produced in Scotland. These regulations will help protect...
• Alex Salmond in just-drinks.com (subscription)
  It is a tremendous boost to our whisky industry as producers seek to expand their presence in the hugely important Chinese market,said Salmond.