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Also known as blended malt whisky. </p> <h3>Single Malt Whisky</h3> <p class="bodytext">Malt Whisky from a single distillery, either from single cask or many casks, and different years. </p> <h3>Pure Pot Still Whiskey</h3> <p class="bodytext">Distilled in a pot still from mixed malted and un-malted barley mash. Exclusive to Irish Whiskey. </p> <h3>Blended Whiskies</h3> <p class="bodytext">Made from mixture of malt and grain whiskies. </p> <h3>Cask Strenght</h3> <p class="bodytext">Very rare whiskies, they are bottled from the cask undiluted.</p></div></div><div id="c5301" class="csc-default"><div class="csc-header csc-header-n3"><h2>Whisky and Whiskey</h2></div><p class="bodytext"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; " class="Apple-style-span">More than 130 years ago, all whisky was spelled like so: whisky, without an extra "e", however due to poor reputation held by Scottish distilleries with cheap spirits, the Irish and American distilleries adopted a new spelling: "whiskey" to actually make a difference between their high quality whisky and the others.</span> </p> <h4 style="font-size: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); ">Whisky Countries: </h4> <p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-align: left; " class="bodytext">Scotland, Canada, Japan, Wales, Australia</p> <h4 style="font-size: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); ">Whiskey Countries:</h4> <p class="bodytext">Ireland and United States<span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 8, 99); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 8, 99); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555"></font></span></p></div><div id="c5302" class="csc-default"><div class="csc-header csc-header-n4"><h2>Types of Whisky</h2></div><h4 style="font-size: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; ">The most famous types according to the country where they are produced are:</span></h4> <h3 style="font-size: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 8, 99); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 8, 99); "><a href="http://www.cocktailsoftheworld.com/spirits/whisky/american-whiskey.html" title="Opens internal link in current window" target="_top" class="internal-link"><font color="#555555" class="Apple-style-span"><img src="http://www.cocktailsoftheworld.com/typo3/sysext/rtehtmlarea/res/accessibilityicons/img/internal_link.gif" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" />American Whiskey</font></a></span></h3> <h3 style="font-size: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 8, 99); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 8, 99); "><a href="http://www.cocktailsoftheworld.com/spirits/whisky/canadian-whisky.html" title="Opens internal link in current window" target="_top" class="internal-link"><font color="#555555" class="Apple-style-span"><img src="http://www.cocktailsoftheworld.com/typo3/sysext/rtehtmlarea/res/accessibilityicons/img/internal_link.gif" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" />Canadian Whisky</font></a></span></h3> <h3 style="font-size: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 8, 99); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 8, 99); "><a href="http://www.cocktailsoftheworld.com/spirits/whisky/irish-whiskey.html" title="Opens internal link in current window" target="_top" class="internal-link"><font color="#555555" class="Apple-style-span"><img src="http://www.cocktailsoftheworld.com/typo3/sysext/rtehtmlarea/res/accessibilityicons/img/internal_link.gif" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" />Irish Whiskey</font></a></span></h3> <h3 style="font-size: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 8, 99); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 8, 99); "><a href="http://www.cocktailsoftheworld.com/spirits/whisky/japanese-whisky.html" title="Opens internal link in current window" target="_top" class="internal-link"><font color="#555555" class="Apple-style-span"><img src="http://www.cocktailsoftheworld.com/typo3/sysext/rtehtmlarea/res/accessibilityicons/img/internal_link.gif" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" />Japanese Whisky</font></a></span></h3> <h3 style="font-size: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 8, 99); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 8, 99); "><font color="#555555" class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.cocktailsoftheworld.com/spirits/whisky/scotch-whisky.html" title="Opens internal link in current window" target="_top" class="internal-link"><img src="http://www.cocktailsoftheworld.com/typo3/sysext/rtehtmlarea/res/accessibilityicons/img/internal_link.gif" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" />Scotch Whisky</a></font></span></h3></div></div> <div id="guestbook"><div class="tx-rvtcocktails-pi2"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="cleardiv"></div> </div> <img class="right clear" src="http://www.cocktailsoftheworld.com/fileadmin/templates/gfx/contentfoot.png" alt="" /> </div> </div> <div class="skyscraper"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript">_uacct = "UA-203163-11";urchinTracker();</script> <script src="http://www.cocktailsoftheworld.com/typo3temp/javascript_c1fba155d7.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </body> </html>