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@Shrike
Shrike started a discussion

When I buy my whisky, about half of my favourite shops are local, which I sometimes need to drive myself to (as opposed to taking public transport etc). What concerns me is the suspicion that whisky can be adversely affected by heat and shaking when I carry it on my scooter for the 10 min drive home. (I do take precautions against bottles heating up).

Like oxidation, can heat and shaking create noticable differences in the profile of the whiskies I buy?(worse still, because this is before I manage to taste it)

12 years ago

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@maltster
maltster replied

I wouldn´t be too concerned about the implications of a ten minutes ride on your scooter - think at the journey the whisky made from scotland to the shop of your choice (packaging/Van/loading/shipcruise/truckride...) but you could start a little experiment: buy a new bottle of whisky and two 200ml bottles. Try to get home from the shop without shaking the full bottle and fill the content of the new bottle into the two bottles up to the neck similar to the filling of the original one. Then shake one bottle vigorously over a longer period of time and compare the two bottles...please let us know what you experienced. I think that as long as the bottle is new and filled up into the neck there will be no impairment of the quality of the spirit because the surface which is in contact with oxygen is small (even when shaked). If your bottle would be filled 50% there would definitely an impact on the spirit.

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@systemdown
systemdown replied

Tend to agree with @maltster - the impact should be negligible. Of course, whisky works in funny ways sometimes. Some whiskies might be more fragile than others. If shaken whiskies end up poorly, then I'm in trouble as I have had two bottles shipped from the U.K. to Australia!

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