What can be done to speed up the maturation of whisky in wooden barrels?

Whisky is known as the British "water of life", it can be seen, whiskey in the eyes of the British the importance of the degree of this save is made from barley and other grains, and China's traditional wine has a big difference, after years of aging in oak barrels, can be made into 43 degrees of potent distilled spirits.

Whisky can be divided into four main categories, respectively, Scotch whiskey, Irish whiskey, American whiskey and Canadian whiskey whiskey. Want to make whiskey need to go through six steps, respectively, malting, saccharification, fermentation, distillation, aging, blending, if you want to become the color of the whiskey we see on the table, it is necessary to whiskey in the barrel maturation, so what methods can accelerate the speed of whiskey maturation in the barrel?

Because some unscrupulous merchants want to speed up the maturation of the whisky, they add caramel color to the whisky, so that it can be similar to the color of the genuine whisky. So in the purchase of whisky must pay attention to identify, to confirm for the whisky is added to the caramel color, in order to identify the degree of authenticity of the whisky, after all, just began to distill out of the original whisky is colorless and transparent, and only after the maturation of the color, so the unscrupulous people of this behavior.

To speed up the maturation of whisky in barrels, you need to use oak barrels for the original whisky. Because oak contains very much aroma phenolic factor, so there is a process is essential after the oak tree is made into oak barrels, that is, baking the inner wall of the barrel, because baking the inner wall of the barrel is what will activate the aroma phenolic factor in the oak, and then accelerate the whisky's coloring. After the whisky is loaded into the oak barrels, after the precipitation of time, then these aroma phenolic factors will be slowly integrated into the whisky, which creates the formation of the unique flavor of the whisky.