In all four countries robust flavoring whiskies are mingled with mass-produced, column distilled whiskies or spirits. While they all make blended whisky, that’s not so different from how blended Scotch, Irish or American whisky is made. Today, eight legacy distilleries make roughly 99% of all Canadian whisky, and each distillery follows its own practices. Second, it hampers our understanding to assume there is a single “Canadian way” to make whisky. Their objective was drinkable alcohol, and they fermented whatever source of sugar was at hand. No, home-distillers with their “Betty Crocker” operations and “Easy-Bake” stills made no contribution to what became Canadian whisky. Instead, well-financed entrepreneurs from Europe and the US replicated large profitable distilling enterprises from back home.Ĭanadian moonshiners operating in the background, as they still do today, did not evolve into commercial distilleries as happened in other nations. There was no need to reinvent that wheel. Instead, it arrived in Canada as a vanguard of an already mature industry, in search of new markets. To understand Canadian whisky, we should begin by dispelling a few misunderstandings about how it came to be.įirst, Canada distinguishes itself from other whisky-producing nations in that whisky making did not arise organically with early settlers and their tiny stills.
Given what we know about how Irish, Scottish and American whisky making began, it’s natural, though incorrect, to assume a similar story for Canada. One brand alone - Crown Royal - is the twelfth best-selling whisky of all kinds worldwide. In all, more than 17.5 million 9-litre cases are sold annually in 160-plus countries, and it is the second best-selling whisky in America. Canadian whisky is one of four recognizable global whisky styles.
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