Unlike wine, for example, whisky is not really about mystification, but it does bring its own jargon. Any unusual terms you are likely to come across are described and defined in this section.
Abv
Age
Age Statement
Ageing
Alcohol By Volume
Amylase
Angels' share
Backset
Ball of Malt
Beading
Beer
Beer Still
Blending
Bond
Bothie
Bottled in Bond
Bourbon
Brewing
Cask strength
Charcoal Mellowing
Charring
Chill Filtration
Column Still
Congeners
Continuous Still
Couch
Cut
Cytase
Distillation
Doubler
Draff
Dram
Drum Maltings
Enzymes
Feints
Fermenter
Fillings
Floor maltings
Foreshots
Furfurol
Fusel Oil
Gauger
Grain Whisky
Green Malt
Grist
Heads
High wines
Jigger
Kieve
Kilning
Leaching
Lincoln County Process
Liquor
Lomond still
Low wines
Lyne Arm
Malt
Malt Whisky
Malting
Maltings
Maltose
Marrying
Mash
Mash Bill
Mash Tun
Mashing
New-make spirit
Nose
Noser
Organic whisk(e)y
Peat
Peated Malt
Pot ale
Pot Still
Premalt
Quaich
Reflux
Rummager
Run
Rye Whiskey
Saladin Box
Single barrel whisk(e)y
Single malt whisky
Small grains
Sour mash whiskey
Spent beer
Spirit safe
Spirit still
Steep
Stillage
Straight whiskey
Sweet mash
Tails
Tennessee whiskey
Thin stillage
Uisge beatha
Vatted Malt
Vatting
Wash
Wash Back
Wash still
Worm
Worts
World Whiskies Awards edition 2012
Premalt
In North America, the process in which Malt is added to Grist before cooking.
