Bryce Meyer/The New York Times/Reduxįor the first century of Canadian whisky, there wasn’t really a Canadian style. Samples in a blending room at Alberta Distillers.
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“It didn’t take long before spirits, whisky, became the major profit centers for these businesses,” says Davin de Kergommeaux, whose book Canadian Whisky: The New Portable Expert introduced the world of whiskey criticism to the wonders of the Great White North. Canadian whisky didn’t start out with small craft distillers it started with big companies. As a way to use up waste wheat, they fermented and distilled it into liquor. The earliest Canadian distillers, which were founded much later than American distillers, in the 1830s or so, weren’t actually distillers, at least not primarily. That’s probably due to the way the Canadian whisky industry began. While American whiskey, especially bourbon, has lately carried the connotations of rural, traditional, authentic, and endemic, Canadian whisky largely doesn’t feel like any of those things. In any case, the production of Canadian whisky is more similar to Scotch whisky than it is to Irish or American whiskey, so the spelling makes sense on several levels. Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie-were either Scottish or Scottish-Canadian.
In distillery-dotted Prince Edward Island, for example, more than 40 percent of the population claims Scottish ancestry, and Nova Scotia literally translates to “New Scotland.” Many of the country’s founding fathers-James Douglas, John A. Canada has a much larger Scottish influence than the United States does. Canadians spell it “whisky,” Americans spell it “whiskey.” The former comes from Scotland, the latter from Ireland. So much of it was below the surface, you never noticed it.” “What shocked me the first time I wrote a piece about it was how big Canadian whisky was,” says Lew Bryson, a drinks writer and author of several books on whiskey.
And yet, chances are, if you’ve bought some, you did it by accident. Canadian whisky is among the most fascinating liquors on the market. It’s blended, which whiskey drinkers have been indoctrinated to think means it’s inferior, yet blending is what gives it its quality. It’s critically dismissed but wins global whiskey awards. It’s unknown and yet somehow incredibly popular.
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