Focus on Flavour
Working through a series of short interactive exercises and pop quizzes, you’ll get to know your lipids from your lignins and learn how to attach key flavours to the part of the process in which they are likely to have developed.
Module Overview
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Focus on Flavour
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Overview
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How does Scotch whisky get its flavour?
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Raw materials
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The Scotch whisky categories
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Fermentation
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Distillation
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Recap: main areas of flavour origination
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Activity: Key flavours associated with each area
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Activity: Where does the most flavour come from?
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Why is oak used?
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Oak species
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Charring & Toasting
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Seasoning
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Fill strength
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Cask size
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Wood surface-to-liquid ratio
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Environment
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Warehouse type
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Chill filtration
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Dilution/Bottling strength
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How to use a flavour map
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How to use a flavour wheel
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Download your copy of the SWRI flavour wheel
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Activity: the main areas of The Whisky Magazine flavour wheel
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Focus on Flavour: Final Quiz
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About this course
- £25.00
- 26 lessons, plus final quiz
- EWA digital badge & certificate
- Printed certificate (optional)
It is an excellent service and...
James McGauran
It is an excellent service and resource I would recommend to everyone with a passion in whisky and thinking about furthering their education. simple but in depth information laid out in an informative and fun format. Had much more depth and con...
Read MoreIt is an excellent service and resource I would recommend to everyone with a passion in whisky and thinking about furthering their education. simple but in depth information laid out in an informative and fun format. Had much more depth and content than I expected for a smaller module and made me look forward to jumping straight into more!
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Martin Bell
It's a really user-friendly system and the structure of the course works very well. It's a good introduction to where flavour comes from in the production process. I work in the whisky industry, so much of the content was familiar, but I nonethe...
Read MoreIt's a really user-friendly system and the structure of the course works very well. It's a good introduction to where flavour comes from in the production process. I work in the whisky industry, so much of the content was familiar, but I nonetheless learned some new things! See above. Very comprehensive overview; whets the appetite to do more in-depth course(s)
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Andrea Pivotto
Great course! Great course! Nice platform and excellent communication
Great course! Great course! Nice platform and excellent communication
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luke rose
Excellent course for the beginner ! very well received and I can't wait to start the next ones.
Excellent course for the beginner ! very well received and I can't wait to start the next ones.
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Gerald Kammersberger
How ever, you know how to take the understanding of scotch whisky to a new level for everbody. And I love watching the course over and over again. Thanks to EWA for this course. Slàinte Geri
How ever, you know how to take the understanding of scotch whisky to a new level for everbody. And I love watching the course over and over again. Thanks to EWA for this course. Slàinte Geri
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