Whiskey colour?!
Whiskey colour?
i have a bet on why whiskey is brown, i say it is from the fermentation of the fruits it uses, am i right or is it browny coloured because of others? because wine - white or red / graps, vodka - clear - potato.... and yea i just thought it followed a pattern.
Answers:
Whiskey is distilled, and all distilled drinks are colorless. The color that you see comes either from the aging process--Whiskey is aged in oak barrels--sometimes charred, sometime bought from wine producers (often Sherry); or by adding a coloring agent, often tasteless caramel.
Different producers do different things.
brown spirits you may have noticed are always sweeter ie; rum bourbon etc. what happens when you cook sugar? caramel. when the whiskey is distilled (not fermented. thats only beer and wine and requires no heat) it picks up the caramel colours. they also add the colours deliberately. more sugar=darker brown.
Believe it or not all liquor is clear when processed. The color is added during the aging of the alcohol, mostly picked up from the charred barrels they age it in.