sour mash
noun
: grain mash for brewing or distilling whose initial acidity has been adjusted to optimum condition for yeast fermentation by mash from a previous run
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Taylor introduced several innovations to bourbon production, including copper fermentation tanks, improved sour mash techniques, and steam-heated rack houses.
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Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Peerless uses a sweet mash process, starting each fermentation fresh with new mash, unlike the typical sour mash method that reuses leftovers from previous batches.
—Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
The menu features the signature Rookie Bramble, which embodies the sustainable ethos, using lemon sour mash house-made from leftover lemons in Sellers' kitchen.
—Stacey Wreathall and Dafydd Gwyon, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2024
The new Sour Mash Single Malt is the first single malt release, and the name refers to the fact that the whiskey is made using the sour mash process—a practice used by most distilleries where some of the mash from a previous fermentation is used to kickstart a new one.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2024
The concept of sour mash whiskey is well-known and most major American distilleries use this process in their whiskey making.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2022
First things first—this is a sour mash whiskey, and not a bourbon, because the mash bill has all the right components (corn, rye and barley) but in different proportions (namely less than 51 percent corn as required by law to be called bourbon).
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2022
Under him, the company became the largest producer of sour mash whiskey in the world.
—Howard Walker, Robb Report, 18 Jan. 2022
Rye sour mash fermenting at the James E. Pepper Distillery.
—Yuka Hayashi, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2021
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Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Peerless uses a sweet mash process, starting each fermentation fresh with new mash, unlike the typical sour mash method that reuses leftovers from previous batches.
—Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
The menu features the signature Rookie Bramble, which embodies the sustainable ethos, using lemon sour mash house-made from leftover lemons in Sellers' kitchen.
—Stacey Wreathall and Dafydd Gwyon, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2024
The new Sour Mash Single Malt is the first single malt release, and the name refers to the fact that the whiskey is made using the sour mash process—a practice used by most distilleries where some of the mash from a previous fermentation is used to kickstart a new one.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2024
The concept of sour mash whiskey is well-known and most major American distilleries use this process in their whiskey making.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2022
First things first—this is a sour mash whiskey, and not a bourbon, because the mash bill has all the right components (corn, rye and barley) but in different proportions (namely less than 51 percent corn as required by law to be called bourbon).
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2022
Under him, the company became the largest producer of sour mash whiskey in the world.
—Howard Walker, Robb Report, 18 Jan. 2022
Rye sour mash fermenting at the James E. Pepper Distillery.
—Yuka Hayashi, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2021
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