A blended whisky (or whiskey) comes from one of many distilleries, but is drawn from whiskies of differing vintages and/or manufacturers. It will include either single malt whisky (made from 100 percent malted grain—often barley, rye or corn) or straight whiskey (bourbon, Tennessee whiskey, or rye whiskey) together with other grain whiskies or neutral grain spirits. Blended whiskies normally identify what malt or straight whisky is used in their production, for example blended Scotch whisky, blended bourbon, or blended Irish whiskey. Scotch whisky Whisky (or whiskey) (from Irish uisce beatha and/or Scottish Gaelic uisge baugh, both meaning water of life, and ultimately a calque derived from Latin Aqua Vitae (see below)) is an alcoholic beverage distilled from grain, often including malt, which has then been aged in wooden barrels. ... Distillation is a means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points. ... Single malt whiskey, sometimes spelled whisky, is an alcoholic beverage which comes from a single distillery, in which all the grain used for the mash has been malted. ... Malted barley Malting is a process applied to cereal grains, in which the grains are made to germinate and then quickly dried before the plant develops. ... Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a caryopsis). ... Binomial name Hordeum vulgare L. Barley (Hordeum vulgare) is a major food and animal feed crop, a member of the grass family Poaceae. ... Binomial name Secale cereale M.Bieb. ... Binomial name Zea mays L. Maize (Zea mays ssp. ... Bourbon bottle, 19th century Bourbon is an American form of whiskey made from (pursuant to U.S. trade law) at least 51% corn, or maize, (typically about 70%) with the remainder being wheat, rye, and malted barley. ... Tennessee whiskey is a type of American whiskey. ... Rye Whisky is a style of whisky made from a mash of at least 51 percent rye (the other ingredients of the mash being usually corn and malted barley). ... Grain whisky is whisky produced in a patent still by a continuous process. ... Neutral grain spirits (a. ...

Most blended whiskies do not list an age. When a blended scotch whisky does so, each individual malt and grain whisky must be at least as old as the age listed.

A blended whisky is much less expensive to produce than the other types of whisky. Most popular whiskies served in pubs and bars are blended whiskeys. Most cocktails and mixed drinks that call for whisky use blended whisky. An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada... A cocktail. ... In scuba diving, the word cocktail also means a hazard with diving with some rebreathers: it means a caustic solution resulting from water reaching and dissolving the absorbent. ...