Whisky production involves the burning of peat, but damaging peatlands releases stored carbon back into the atmosphere where ...

Approximately 80% of Scotch whisky is made using peat as a fuel source for drying barley during the malting process. The aromas of the burning peat, or“reek” as it is known in the industry ...

What whiskies should you drink on Burn’s Night? Any Scotch whisky will do ... The nose features delicate peat smoke, red and black berries, stone fruit notes of cherry and dried apricot ...

However, peat means much more to whiskey than a flavor or regional quirk. Rather, peat is a dense decomposed plant matter ...