What is Scotch whisky made of?
Scotch whisky takes barley, water, malted barley, baker's yeast and oak wine barrel directly. Trace them back and you pass 17 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
How Scotch whisky is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Barley goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Timber through oak wine barrel
- Sugarcane through baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through baker's yeast, molasses
- Iron ore through oak wine barrel, steel, manganese
- Limestone through oak wine barrel, steel, quicklime
- Air through oak wine barrel, steel, argon
- Dolomite through oak wine barrel, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through oak wine barrel, steel, manganese
- Natural gas through oak wine barrel, steel, manganese
- Coal through oak wine barrel, steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through oak wine barrel, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Crude oil through oak wine barrel, steel, steel scrap, propane
- Sulfur through oak wine barrel, steel, manganese, sulfuric acid
Made along the way: 14 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 6
Electronics 1
Food 1
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.