Peat can be briefly defined as a black spongy coal consisting of decayed plant residues and moss. This definition may not sound very nice, but we owe the smoky, smoky and smoked notes found in many whiskeys (especially whiskeys from the Islay region of Scotland) to peat.
To understand how these notes pass into whiskey, we need to take a closer look at the whiskey production process. Smokey, smoky and smoky notes heavily permeate the character of whiskey during the malting stage, which is the first stage of whiskey production.
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