Alchemy? Turning beer into whisky

Most of us are capable of turning alcohol into water, using a specialised filtration process known, colloquially, as 'drinking'.

However, when a brewery in the Australian country town of Beechworth found itself with a glut of beer due to its sales tanking when local bars and restaurants shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, a novel solution was devised.

Turn the surplus beer into whisky!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-02/beer-turned-into-whisky-due-to-excess-beer-supply-due-to-covid19/12410850


I thought there’d be more comments on this novel process, especially considering the holiday weekend. 
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That’s truly interesting, especially when compared with the Canadian sarsaparilla Cronk revival I’ve been reading about. cheese

I wonder if the different flavours are as heavily influenced by geography as grape wines wines are? (So that you could in theory have two beer-whiskeys from similar recipes and equipment but different locations; could an experienced expert tell them apart in a blind tasting?)


joanne said:

That’s truly interesting, especially when compared with the Canadian sarsaparilla Cronk revival I’ve been reading about.
cheese

I wonder if the different flavours are as heavily influenced by geography as grape wines wines are? (So that you could in theory have two beer-whiskeys from similar recipes and equipment but different locations; could an experienced expert tell them apart in a blind tasting?)

 I don't know, but I am willing to try.



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