Single Malt

 Today we had a tour of the Glenmorangie distillery at 10:30 in the morning!  A little early for tasting whisky! This single malt is made from 3 ingredients, water, barley and yeast but the complicated natural chemical transformations that occur to the ingredients makes a golden nectar. Most of the huge barley fields that are spread over this part of Scotland are for the whisky distilleries, miles and miles of fields!

Glenmorangie uses large long necked stills because like a stove pipe  the neck keeps the liquid in contact with the heated surface longer. That’s why their emblem is a giraffe.
The tour is followed by a tasting and we compared opinions. The bottles cost about 75 pounds each and we thought that was expensive.

The distillery was run by just 16 men back in the 20th century. and they could produce 5 million bottles so think of the profits. There is now one master distiller that is sort of a mad scientist and concocts new mixes in his tower laboratory below
Afterwards in Tain a small town near the distillery we met a guy in a studio blowing glass, he blew whisky bottles for high end stuff and rich drinkers. His bottles filled with fine brew sold for 50,000 pounds!  

Eric the glass blower was from Minneapolis and found his way into this lucrative job.
We ended the day in Inverness where we looked at kilts and Highland wear that was way too warm for the places we live and way to expensive for our pocket books. 


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