Certificate of Introduction to Scotch Whisky

Perfect for beginners. Delivered 100% online, learn in your own time with short, easy-to-follow multimedia lessons spread over five modules.

The Australian Whisky Academy have produced a course designed to be completed in your own time, at your own pace. There is a mixture of reading, activities video content and short assessments to test your knowledge. Delivered over 5 Modules, we guide you through from the history of Whisky and its origins to how this spirit can be tasted , the various flavour profiles and enjoyed.  Scroll down to discover more. 

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Learn online in your own time, at your own pace with lifetime access to the course.

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Incorporated media formats making the course easy to read, navigate and learn.

Certificate

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About this course

Course Overview

  1. Origins of Whisky
  2. Varieties
  3. Single Malt
  4. Single Grain
  5. Blended Malt
  6. Blended Scotch 
  7. The Regions 
  8. History

  1. The five regions
  2. Elements and profiles of the regions 
  3. Distilleries 
  4. The bottle 
  5. How to read the label
  6. Tax

  1. Key ingredients 
  2. Elements 
  3. Introducing 'the Still'
  4. Structure of the barley 
  5. Malting 

  1. Raw materials 
  2. Breaking the process down 
  3. Malting 
  4. Introduction of peat or 'smokey' flavour
  5. Milling 
  6. Mashing 
  7. Fermentation 
  8. Distillation 

  1. What actually happens when the spirit ages
  2. Oak and its importance 
  3. How does Whisky get its colour? 
  4. Finishing the whisky 
  5. The cask 
  6. Bottling and chill filtration 
  7. Flavour profiles 
  8. Tasting 

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