edwinedje schreef:Dit zegt natuurlijk niets over het al dan niet afgerond zijn van de percentages, of verschillende batches die op hetzelfde percentage worden gebottled.
Dit kan natuurlijk achteraf nog gedaan worden dmv het mengen van de vaten of het afwateren achteraf.
Wellicht dat het dan eigenlijk geen CS of NCS mag heten.
Naar aanleiding van mijn (onze) observatie heb ik een vervolg vraag gestuurd naar mijn nieuwe vriend Billy.
Your answer seems to be in-line with our assumptions so your best of knowledge might be spot on.
So knowing this, we are still in the dark on our follow up question.
So I would like to test your best knowledge a little bit more, although I understand this might be less clear or defined.
There are CS bottlings in the market (not neccesarrily Coal Ila) that seems to have a consistent alcohol % across the batches/releases.
Would this be caused by mixing/blending different casks to level out the alcohol percentage.
Or maybe just start bottling when correct age and % have been achieved.
Or is it a balancing act where a minimum of water is introduced to keep it official CS but a consistent alcohol %.
Again I understand that this information might not be available (or even secret) so do not hestitate to let me know if so.
En daar heb ik het volgende antwoord op gekregen;
Glad my response met with your approval and agreement J
Your next question is not so easy to answer. Generally speaking, cask strength bottlings are not diluted with water to bring them to a particular %age prior to bottling, they are usually a mixture of casks and whatever %age they come out at is what they are bottled at.
Given that the industry standard filling strength is usually 63.5% these days, and that on average (across many thousands of casks) we would expect to lose around 2% per year for the first 10 years to the angels share, then depending on the age of the bottling, there would be a point at which, on average, the bottling strength of the whisky, across a large range of bottlings, would average out at a roughly consistent %age (given these variables).
As you can see, I did say this one was not as easy to answer, and would much better be discussed over a dram....
Ik ga er voor het gemak vanuit dat het Engels voor de meeste geen probleem is.
Indien wel, geef maar een gil en dan vertalen we het "even".
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ben heel benieuwd...
dus we gaan een reisje organiseren met forumleden richting caol ila? 
Wie gaan we nog meer mailen. Caol ila en the Glenlivet zijn aan het woord geweest. Iemand had ook edradour nog gemaild toch? Nog meer distilleerderijen die de term 'natural' gebruiken?