Focus on Flavour

Focus on Flavour

Working through a series of short interactive exercises and pop quizzes, you’ll get to know your lipids from your lignins and learn how to attach key flavours to the part of the process in which they are likely to have developed.

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Flexible

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

In-depth, yet easy-to-follow material. Ideal for beginners, or those keen to learn a bit more.
Interactive

Enjoy quizzes, video and multimedia lessons in this standalone module. Plus, a final quiz.

Module Overview

1. Overview
2. How does Scotch whisky get its flavour?
1. The Scotch whisky categories
2. Malted barley
3. Does barley variety make a difference to flavour?
4. Water
5. Yeast
6. Peat
7. Does the peat source location make a difference to flavour?
1. Mashing
2. Fermentation
3. Washbacks
4. Time & hygiene
1. Pot stills & reflux
2. Cut points
3. Where does the most flavour come from?
1. Why is oak used?
2. Oak species
3. Charring & Toasting
4. Seasoning
5. Fill strength
6. Cask size
7. Wood surface-to-liquid ratio
8. Environment
9. Warehouse type
1. How dilution affects flavour
2. Chill filtration
3. Does chill filtration make a difference to flavour?
1. How to use a flavour map
2. How to use a flavour wheel
3. Download your copy of the SWRI flavour wheel
4. The Whisky Magazine Tasting Wheel
1. Focus on Flavour Quiz
2. Share Your Feedback 🗣

About this course

£25.00
26 lessons, plus final quiz
EWA digital badge & certificate
Printed certificate (optional)

It is an excellent service and...

James McGauran

It is an excellent service and resource I would recommend to everyone with a passion in whisky and thinking about furthering their education. simple but in depth information laid out in an informative and fun format. Had much more depth and con...

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It is an excellent service and resource I would recommend to everyone with a passion in whisky and thinking about furthering their education. simple but in depth information laid out in an informative and fun format. Had much more depth and content than I expected for a smaller module and made me look forward to jumping straight into more!

It's a really user-friendly sy...

Martin Bell

It's a really user-friendly system and the structure of the course works very well. It's a good introduction to where flavour comes from in the production process. I work in the whisky industry, so much of the content was familiar, but I nonethe...

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It's a really user-friendly system and the structure of the course works very well. It's a good introduction to where flavour comes from in the production process. I work in the whisky industry, so much of the content was familiar, but I nonetheless learned some new things! See above. Very comprehensive overview; whets the appetite to do more in-depth course(s)

Great course!

Andrea Pivotto

Great course! Great course! Nice platform and excellent communication

Great course! Great course! Nice platform and excellent communication

Five Star Focus

luke rose

Excellent course for the beginner ! very well received and I can't wait to start the next ones.

Excellent course for the beginner ! very well received and I can't wait to start the next ones.

I like scotch whicky still more

Gerald Kammersberger

How ever, you know how to take the understanding of scotch whisky to a new level for everbody. And I love watching the course over and over again. Thanks to EWA for this course. Slàinte Geri

How ever, you know how to take the understanding of scotch whisky to a new level for everbody. And I love watching the course over and over again. Thanks to EWA for this course. Slàinte Geri