Bushmills Original versus Prohibition Recipe Blended Irish Whiskey Review
Chill Filtration – whisky below 46% abv can go cloudy when chilled or when an ice cube is added, the dreaded ‘Scotch mist’, and a lot of producers don’t like this effect, because to the casual consumer it may look like there is something wrong with their product, when in fact it is just a natural phenomenon where the fatty acids and oils coagulate in the low temperature making the spirit cloudy. To negate this problem a lot of producers subject their whiskey to chill filtration before bottling. They chill the whiskey quickly anywhere between -10c (14f) and 4c (39f) and they push the liquid through a fine filter. All the coagulate fatty acids are caught and filtered out leaving a clearer liquid. Critics of the practice argue that by removing these oils and fats you remove not only texture in the mouthfeel but also flavour. Today we run a little experiment with two Bushmills whiskies. The Original blend that is presented at 40% abv, is chill filtered and almost certainly contains e150 ca...
