The other side of that coin, of course, was that the existing single malt whiskies were too harsh and powerfully flavoured to establish a broad appeal among the general public.Īt this time, in the mid-19th century, malt whisky in Scotland was sold either at the distilleries themselves (if you wanted to buy a cask, that is) or, to the common folk, in local grocers or wine and spirit merchants who would have a small supply of casks from nearby distilleries available for customers to fill their own vessels to take away.

The only problem was that the new grain whisky was generally of inferior quality and had far less flavour compared to the single malt whiskies which were the existing norm for Scottish whisky drinkers. This revolutionised the distillation of grain spirits and led to ready availability of cheap grain whisky in Scotland within a few years. The efficiency of the Coffey still enabled distillers to produce very high alcohol spirits from the cheapest grains on an industrial scale. The history of blended whisky begins, more or less, with two events in the early 1800s: the 1823 Excise Act which enabled illicit Highland distillers to license their distilleries and sell their malt whiskies legally and the development of the continuous still, perfected in 1830 by the Irishman Aeneas Coffey.

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