How to drink a good whiskey?
Tips / / December 19, 2019
In our blog we will certainly vote for a healthy lifestyle, healthy eating, exercise and abstinence from alcohol and smoking. But let's admit to ourselves honestly, most of us still allows himself to drink, though not often. And there is nothing critical, the main thing - quality drinking alcohol and drink it properly, and, of course, in the not too large quantities. Then, from the use of the drink you get exactly the fun, for the sake of which should sometimes drink a little.
Today we will talk about how to drink good whiskey. Popular cocktail with cola or juice is suitable only for low-cost options, the taste of which you need something to score. Taste the quality of whiskey is necessary to try to reveal as much as possible.
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Most often, to drink strong alcohol heavily chilled or add ice to it. In fact, this is wrong, when it comes to whiskey. The optimum temperature of the drink - 18-20 degrees Celsius. At this temperature, the beverage is fully reveals its taste. Too low a temperature will spoil the taste, it is "closed", since natural oils zagusteyut. For this reason, it is impossible to store whiskey in the refrigerator, and for the same reason it is not necessary to cool the whiskey with ice (it is too cool drink).
In addition, the ice will melt and strongly dilute the drink, which also affect its taste is not the best. Dilute only cask strength whiskey, and the specially treated water, that used in the production of whiskey. Ideally, this spring water from the same area where the drink was produced. Not easy. But the whiskey in the bottle, 40% alcohol is considered a diluted, which means that additional water is not needed.
Since the cool whiskey, which was stored at room temperature (22-25 degrees Celsius), to the ideal 18-20 degrees? For these purposes, true gourmets use special stones.
They are made of steatite (soapstone), do not be confused by the name, steatite did not smell, It does not enter into any chemical reaction with beverages, food, water, alcohol, detergents means. Soapstone does not absorb odors and flavors. It has been used for centuries in various nations for manufacturing utensils, for example. This played a role more and the fact that this stone is soft and easily processed.
Whiskey stones are usually cube-shaped with a carefully polished edges (so as not to scratch the glass). It is important to pay attention to the quality of the stones, as well as to where they were mined. One of the highest quality are those that are mined and manufactured in the USA. We have borrowed a very interesting video about how to make whiskey stones, from the company website SPARQ - one of the producers of the highest quality stones (made by hand).
By the way, interestingly enough, the stones can be used for heating beverages, for example, to maintain a constant temperature of tea or coffee if you drink it slowly.
Buy Whiskey stones can be in the store SPARQ