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[wildandmagic]

Who knows in which distillery we will find all these wee flags....?? And what are they for.....? . #foL #Islay #SCOTLAND #ScotchWhisky #WhiskyMagic #IslayWhiskyConnection #IslayWhiskyAcademy #ScotchTalk (at Islay Whisky Connection) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmJ7GIBAptV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19qkkz5nsqztw

[miltonsalgadofilho]

Perceber a turfa no Whisky é sentir o perfume e o gosto do solo da Escócia. @lagavulinwhisky @islaywhiskyacademy https://www.instagram.com/p/CBqFZIUjK2S/?igshid=rxtnvd7q4c6d

[wildandmagic]

The Glasgow Distillery Peated newmake. Looking forward to drinking this one after a few years in wood. #GlasgowDistillery #MaltWhisky #Peat #Scotch #WhiskyMagic #IslayWhiskyConnection #IslayWhiskyAcademy #ScotchTalk (at Islay Whisky Connection)

[wildandmagic]

The still room. #Bowmore #Distillery circa 1880. Would you recognise it? ? #WhiskyMagic #IslayWhiskyConnection #IslayWhiskyAcademy #ScotchTalk (at Bowmore distillery)

[wildandmagic]

Saturday Stills.... I LOVE stills...they are like people in all their different shapes, sizes and abilities. Here are a variety for you from Islay & beyond - a Ile agus air astar - Who knows which are which...? #Jura #Ardnamurchan #AbhainnDearg #Laphroaig #Tobermory #OldPortEllen #Bowmore #Auchentoshan #Wolfburn Happy Saturday. . . #WhiskyMagic #IslayWhiskyAcademy #IslayWhiskyConnection #ScotchTalk #Alchemy #Copper #Islay #Stills #distilling #FreeScotland (at Islay Whisky Connection) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmnjBW5gTW1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ed6wdqnt81o8

[wildandmagic]

The new #Laphroaig #Cask strength winking at me from the shelf today.... #Slàinté #IslayWhiskyConnection #IslayWhiskyAcademy #ScotchTalk (at Laphroaig distillery)

[wildandmagic]

Barrels of Fun on Islay ! That's about right... Here's to all the warehousemen and women who look after our whisky. #Slainte #Casks #Whisky #IslayWhiskyConnection #IslayWhiskyAcademy #ScotchTalk (at Islay Whisky Connection)

[wildandmagic]

Tasting notes to be done today....it's a hard life! Thanks to boss man James Brown for kindly sharing a couple of bottles from two private single casks. You can taste these drams in the official Feis Ile Whisky Tasting hosted by myself in the Gaelic College on Wednesday 30th at 7.30pm. I hope you have tickets already as it is now sold out😎 #FeisIle #Whisky #Tasting #IslayWhiskyConnection #IslayWhiskyAcademy #ScotchTalk #Octomore #Privatecask #Slainte ! (at Islay Whisky Connection)

[wildandmagic]

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Milling at #Bunnahabhain #IslayWhiskyConnection #IslayWhiskyAcademy #ScotchTalk #Barley #Malt #Scotland #Scotch

[wildandmagic]

Not knocking the Glasgow Airport Travel retail shop....! #Slàinte #Dalmore #Valour #Flying #IslayWhiskyConnection #IslayWhiskyAcademy #ScotchTalk

[wildandmagic]

#SCOTCHSERIES 35 #Purifiers Ardbeg Distillery has a purifier on their spirit still. Not many stills have such a thing. What is this? Basically it is a small copper pot on the underside of the lyne arm between the still and the condenser. Some of the heavier vapours which have risen up the still into the lyne arm, fall into the purifier pot and condensing back into liquid, spiral down a three inch copper pipe into the still - (similar to landing on a snake in the childhood game of Snakes and Ladders..) The vapours then get re distilled in the main body of the still. This is a way of creating more reflux. "Reflux" is when vapour condenses back to liquid inside the still. Mickey Heads, Ardbeg Manager does not remember a time when the Ardbeg spirit still did not have a purifier. He has seen old photos and the purifier was on the still away back then. The purifier is what allows Ardbeg to be peated to around 55 PPM, but still be quite "light". So, Ardbeg spirit is fruity, salty, zesty and is well peated, but not too heavy. Octomore spirit and Bruichladdich stills can be seen as a similar case in point - without a purifier. #IslayWhiskyConnection #IslayWhiskyAcademy #ScotchTalk Photo is Ardbeg Spirit Still with purifier.

[wildandmagic]

#SCOTCHSERIES23 #SUGARS Yeasts eats simple sugars and needs help to eat the big/complex sugars in Barley. Grain holds some of its sugars in polymers - starch and cellulose. Polymers are built up structures of units - in this case we are talking about structures of sugars (polymer can create plastics. It is a construction) Yeast can't digest starch. In malting we create the conditions for the grains to break down it's sugar polymers ie starch - so the yeast can eat them. We do this by making the barley grain think it is time for it to grow. So it naturally starts breaking down the polymers into energies it can use to grow. Just at the right time, we heat/dry the barley and this stops the growth, so, the sugars we need for the yeast to eat have been naturally broken down by the grain itself. Sugars are carbohydrate which means their construction is carbon atoms with hydrogen and oxygen atoms attached. Things are things because of the pattern they are constructed in. The same components in a different structure give us something else. Starch and cellulose are made from the same components, but are different things due to their structure. #IslayWhiskyConnection #IslayWhiskyAcademy #ScotchTalk

[wildandmagic]

Chemical composition of a peat bog depends on its geographical location. It's all location, location, location! Peat from different bogs can be distinguished by it's chemical fingerprint ~ and the chemical fingerprint of a bog is still distinguishable in the final spirit. Peat is created from the flora and fauna of an area. If you had a wooded area, the peat will be different from an area where the peat was mostly formed from heather - as in along the "Low road" in Islay. Here, it is also very salty due to the prevailing winds coming off the Atlantic Ocean carrying salt, also the salt laden rain falling on the West coast earth over millennia. #IslayWhiskyAcademy #IslayWhiskyConnection #ScotchTalk

[wildandmagic]

Testing out my Norlan glass courtesy of Mr Mc Ewan. Feel it would be more fitting with my Blade Runner The Directors cut in the glass.... #futuristicwhiskydrinking Slainte! Enjoy your Saturday night. . . #JimMcEwan #Norlan #Laphroaig #Lore #DirectorsCut #JohnnieWalker #WhiskyMagic #IslayWhiskyAcademy #IslayWhiskyConnection #ScotchTalk (at Islay Whisky Connection) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmoN1N9gdSp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1o6nrarsm43wo

[wildandmagic]

Friday Find!! Cant believe what I found at the back of the cupboard.... Ardbeg SUPERNOVA Committee Release 2015 54.3% abv. Looks magical - the wee Witches seem pleased with this one....! Here's to a great weekend! . #slàinte #WhiskyMagic #IslayWhiskyConnection #IslayWhiskyAcademy #ScotchTalk #Ardbeg #IslayMalt #IslayDistilleries #Scotland #Islay #supernova (at Islay Whisky Connection) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmk7h2YguU3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cx06cbyjfqys

[wildandmagic]

Clermont Springs and Jim Beam brands Bourbon Whiskey casks, also "sherry" casks at #Bunnahabhain today. Also the proverbial pirate ship....and a beautifully festive trailer! It's all there at one of my favourite distilleries.... . #Slàinte! #WhiskyMagic #IslayWhiskyConnection #IslayWhiskyAcademy #ScotchTalk #pirates #whiskycasks #IslayMalts #BonnieScotland (at Islay Whisky Connection) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmOmONsgK1Z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3kfw065aq5hy