Tim Sheahan

Flavour perception effect of ethanol

Adding water to your distilled spirit will change its flavour. The question is: By how much? Researchers Chelsea Ickes and Keith Cadwallader report. For whisky and other spirit drinkers, the big debate is always centred on should you drink whisky neat – no water or ice – or diluted with water? The argument is not…

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The Rise of Cachaca

Like how craft beer spun out from big beer so, too, has craft gin spun out from the big players. Future distillers – with a good portion coming up through the craft beer ranks – realised that with the knowledge they already had, to make craft gin was within their reach. Now, distillers are looking…

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