Just returned from a two week tour in Scotland and have visited a couple of distilleries. I noticed that at the end of the distillation process the whisky is invariably a colorless white liquid. Then I always ask the same question : do the distilleries add some colouring agent after distillation ? The answer always is : no, no, no, no colouring, it's the wood in the cask. Sorry, this I can either believe nor understand. There have to be some tricks here ... and how then are there very old whiskies that are almost colorless ? How can the specialists comment on this ? All this scepticism is not making m a less whisky-lover though
Frank