Category: Whisk

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Everyone has heard it before, whether from family members, at the bar, in movies, or on television. It says, “I really don’t like whisky all that much, but I like bourbon.”

Time to put an end to the chaos! Below is a taxonomy of whisky and whiskey, outlining their differences and similarities and appropriate usage to explain why that sentence makes no sense definitively and to define whisk(e)y, including the rather awkward parenthesis we use within the word itself.

A distilled mash of that’s grains is used to make whisk(e)y, further matured in wood. It’s a kind of umbrella that encompasses all whisk(e)y varieties, including Scotch, Bourbon, Irish whiskey, Japanese whisky, and more.