With an edge of sweetness, it tastes of ripe malted barley, and is made with water so pure it shines.

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Ale is how beer was made for millennia--natural yeasts in the air attacked the blend of water, hops and malted barley and started the fermentation process.

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Whereas Scotch whisky, even at full strength right off the still, tastes distinctly of the malted barley from which it is made, gin is essentially made from pure alcohol.

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The whiskey is a blend of malted barley and corn, matured in bourbon barrels for at least four years, then mellowed for four months in wine barrels that had been used for Concannon Petite Sirah before blending.

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The fashion for quality, limited-edition whiskey started in Britain in the 1980s with the rapid expansion in the availability of single-malt Scotches, high-end whiskies made by individual distilleries in Scotland, using only malted barley (see: " Super Single Malts").

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It is the only pure Irish pot still whiskey available in the U.S. Unlike the vast majority of Irish whiskies, it is entirely made from malted and malted barley, while almost all other have the addition of grain-whiskey, one of the same key differentiators between single malt and blended whiskies.

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From a Portland, OR distillery founded in 2004, this is produced, like single malt Scotch, from 100% malted barley, but the resemblance ends there this is a drink with brightness and lift, and a complex back-palate with characters of custard, cinnamon and earthy wet stone that taste way better together than they sound.

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