iLaddie RSWFW Radar Chart

This week I opened up "Numbers" again and to my surprise Apple had added a diagram type which I had been looking for for ages. The Radar Chart has finally made it to Apple's idea of Excel! This means I...

Italian Hops: Terroir influences on Beer

It has been a while since I wrote a blog about terroir. Or any blog for that matter. The reason being my mother recently passed away totally unexpected and I have been too preoccupied with dealing with that. On to...

The “Terroir of a Whisky Cask” ?…

So a while back I wrote about the "Terroir of casks". I wrote:"Should we start speaking about the “terroir of casks” besides the “terroir of barley” and “the provenance of the distillery”?" in a blog explaining that all casks are...

Terroir: Natural Terroir Units / Terron

Terroir is one of those topics in the Whisky industrie which is either considered as a no-brainer or a non-issue. I have been looking into the science behind terroir in whisky for more than two years now and I have...

Whisky Terroir: Further substantiation of the concept

The concept of "terroir" in whisky has been progressing nicely in the scientific world these past months and years. Where the first papers showing proof of concept were published in 2019 by Arnold et al. [2] further substantiation of the...

Terroir, advancements in Wine research and link to whisky

I follow the developments of terroir in whisky for science papers. And to do so I read all I can find in papers. I find these papers by looking for then in journals, via ResearchGate and pages such as Google...

Analysing my “collection”

As some of you know I keep track of my open bottle collection WhiskyBase. I had nothing to do so I started to mess around with the CSV you can download. Some useless statistics: Number of bottles226Minimum ABv40%Maximum ABv70%Minimum current...

#RSWFW: G: Wood Extractive 6. Vanilla

The congener of “Ice cream”, "Custard", "Cola", "Toffee", "Chocolate" and "Cake mix" are parts of the “Vanilla” sub category as part of the “Wood Extractive” head category. Photo by Daria Shevtsova on Pexels.com See the dark dries wire looking stuff...

Barley SW, “Packing Efficiency” and “Grain Density”

So I posted a blog a while back about the relationship between "Terroir" and "Specific Density" in malted barley used for whisky. I had some left over questions about two terms being used. The first was "Packing Efficiency" and the...