SINGLE MALT WHISKY
Experience
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North America's 1st Single Malt Whisky
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Single Malt Whisky(ey) :
A whisky(ey) made from malted barley and from one distillery
Malting Barley
(The malting process converts the barley’s starch into sugar.)
Barley is taken in from the field and spread out on a floor where it is soaked with water
and allowed to germinate. The barley is turned during germination providing a consistent product.
Kiln Building
The germinated barley is then moved to a kiln building housing a fire in the lower level. Smoke from this fire rises and enters the chamber containing the barley.
The smoke stops the germination and flavours the barley.
Please Note: Glenora Distillers contracts the malting process to an outside source, however the barley is malted to Glenora's specifications.
The Grist Mill
Once Glenora receives the barley it is ground in the Grist Mill.
This is the first step in separating the sugar (the flour like substance) from the husks.
The Mashhouse
The grist is soaked and stirred in the mash ton where hot water dissolves the sugar.
The sugar-flavoured water seeps through many small slits in the floor of the mash ton.
The solids left behind are off loaded to local farmers for cattle feed.
The Wash-house
From the mash ton, the sugar-flavoured liquid (the wort) is cooled before it flows into the washbacks. Added yeast converts the sugar to a 9% alcohol.
As favorable as this liquid may be, we don’t want to age water; so it must be distilled.
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The Still-house
Distilling separates the water from the alcohol. The copper pots stills heat the 9% liquid to a boil. Because alcohol boils before water the alcohol vapors rise first, they are collected and then cooled back into a liquid. During this first distillation the liquids alcohol is converted from 9% to 22% alcohol. This process is repeated in the second and final distillation converting the alcohol from 22% to 70%.
Oak barrels are filled with the "New Make"
Each barrel is numbered and stored in the warehouse for maturation.
A spirit must age a minimum of 3 years in wood before it can be called a whisky
Glenora Warehouse
Mailing Address
PO Box 181,
Mabou, NS, Canada
B0E 1X0
(902)258-2662
1(800)839-0491
Contact Us
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13727 Route 19, Glenville
Corporate Office
Suite 820 - 1550 Bedford Hwy
Bedford, NS, Canada
B4A 1E6
(902) 468-6516