A blended whiskey (or whisky) comes from one of many distilleries, but is drawn from whiskeys of differing vintages and/or manufacturers. It will include either malt whisky (made from 100 percent maltedgrain—often barley, rye or corn) or straight whiskey (bourbon. Tennessee whiskey, or rye whiskey) together with other grain whiskeys or neutral grain spirits. Blended whiskies normally identify what malt or straight whiskey is used in their production, for example blended Scotch whisky, blended bourbon, or blended Irish whiskey.
A blended whiskey is much less expensive to produce than the other types of whiskey. Most popular whiskeys served in pubs and bars are blended whiskeys. Most cocktails and mixed drinks that call for whiskey use blended whiskey.
Whisky (or whiskey) is the name for a broad category of alcoholic beverages that are distilled from grains and are subsequently aged in oak casks.
The term Maltwhisky is reserved for a whisky made from 100% maltedbarley; maltwhisky is distilled using an onion-shaped pot still; maltwhisky from one distillery is called single maltwhisky to distinguish it from blendedwhiskies.
Grainwhisky differs from malt in that it is usually made from corn/maize or other grains rather than maltedbarley, and distilled in continuous distillation process stills known as Coffey stills instead of the pot still used for maltwhisky.
Whisky production in Japan began around 1870, but the first commercial production was in 1923, when the country's first distillery—Yamazaki—opened.
One facet of the style of Japanese whisky comes from the way in which blendedwhisky is produced, and the differing nature of the industry in Japan.
The requirements of blendedwhiskies are one of the main driving forces behind the diversity of malts produced by Scotland's distilleries.
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