A real single malt scotch is a brew that is distilled in one location. A single cask scotch has actually been in one cask and not moved to accommodate other blends.
The majority of single malts are bottled at in between forty and forty-six percent as the legal limitation is set at a minimum of forty percent. Ask strength is a term utilized when the alcohol level is still reasonably high and the brew has actually not been thinned down or if it has actually been the addition of water was low. Cask strength is not constantly simply one cask it can be from a number of casks inclusively.
Considered that there is roughly 6 to 9 various areas in Scotland that really have actually shown distilleries, the qualities of the malt can differ substantially. They all have their own distinct strategies and design to producing their malts and each produce a taste all their own.