Forget about the kashrus issues, just read this as a travel log and pronunciation guide.He's right:
Go ahead and take Reb Mordechai's A Tour of the Speyside region in the Scottish Highlands - Kashrus issues with whisky.
Technorati Tag: Scotland and Whiskey and Kashrus.
The issues concerning the kashrus of scotch are pretty straightforward, actually. The Rambam says the wine blios are pogum for making beer. That might not apply if you actually want the sherry taste in your whiskey. The argument that the casks are dried out and fired inside (and may have been reused a number of times already for whiskey) is something to fall back on if the label isn't telling you anyway that they used a sherry cask. Maybe they used a bourbon cask and the whole issue doesn't come up to begin with. Ultimately, you can't really know what is going on until the distillery is under competent kashrus supervision and most of them aren't. So it isn't hard to understand, it is just that the results are a muddle. There are other comparable situations in kashrus. People are very happy buying whatever whiskey or vodka they want.
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