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WHISKY FACTS

With a value of £4.91 billion, Scotch whisky exports accounted for over 20 per cent of all UK food and drink exports in 2019.
Suntory has created its very own yeast strain: Suntoryeus Lactobacillus.
According to the Kentucky Distillers Association 95 per cent of all bourbon whiskey is produced in Kentucky.
During World War II, many bourbon distilleries were converted in order to make fuel and penicillin.
Some 42 bottles of whisky are exported from Scotland every second.
The Scottish Parliament first taxed whisky in 1644.
Licensed Scotch whisky production was banned from 1757 to 1760 due to a poor grain harvest.
Kentucky is home to more barrels of maturing bourbon than people.
However, with a population of 5.4 million, and more than 20 million barrels of whisky in store, Scotland has almost four casks of whisky per citizen.
Illustration of a man wearing a whisky barrel
Laid end to end, these casks would stretch about 30,000 kilometres – or about six times the distance between Edinburgh and New York.

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