Name: 傑克-丹尼爾斯威士忌是如何釀造的 | 日間製造 | 英國國家地理 (How Jack Daniels Whiskey is Made | Made in Day | National Geographic UK)
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Whiskey is one of the most diverse categories of spirits on the planet.

威士忌是世界上最多樣化的烈酒類別之一。

Whether it's a Scotch whiskey or whether it's an Irish whiskey, or if it's a Kentucky bourbon or a Tennessee whiskey, the flavor changes markedly.

無論是蘇格蘭威士忌、愛爾蘭威士忌，還是肯塔基波本威士忌或田納西威士忌，風味都會有顯著的差異。

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And it's the mix of local and global materials that gives Jack Daniels distinction.

而正是當地與全球原料的結合，賦予了 Jack Daniels 與眾不同的特色。

The corn comes from Alabama, the rye from Canada, malted barley from Montana, water and yeast from Tennessee, and

玉米來自阿拉巴馬，黑麥來自加拿大，麥芽大麥來自蒙大拿，水和酵母來自田納西，

North American sugar maple to make charcoal to mellow the whiskey.

以及北美糖楓用來製作木炭，以柔化威士忌的口感。

So what we have here is one of our corn trucks coming in to unload.

所以我們這裡看到的是我們的一輛玉米卡車正在卸貨。

We go through over 20,000 bushels of grain every day.

我們每天要處理超過 20,000 蒲式耳的穀物。

80% 玉米、12% 麥芽大麥，以及 8% 黑麥。

Is the grain bill or the recipe for Jack Daniels?

這就是 Jack Daniels 的穀物配方嗎？

To keep up with that demand requires a lot of farming.

要滿足這個需求，需要大量的耕種。

95 acres of corn must be harvested every day to keep Jack Daniels flowing.

每天必須收割 95 英畝的玉米，才能讓 Jack Daniels 順利生產。

And the distillery doesn't want no cattle feed corn.

而且酒廠不要那種給牛吃的玉米。

The big thing about this grain is it's all number one quality, which means it's been cleaned and sorted.

這種穀物最棒的地方是它們都是一級品質，也就是說它們已經過清潔和篩選。

As you can see, there's no foreign material in there at all.

你可以看到，裡面完全沒有任何異物。

There's no sticks, there's no dirt, there's no stones, nothing.

沒有樹枝、沒有泥土、沒有石頭，什麼都沒有。

In fact, you don't even hardly see a cracked corn, right?

事實上，你幾乎看不到碎玉米，對吧？

That's keeping the starches and what we're going to eventually turn into the whiskey, that's keeping them nice and clean and free of any contam contamination.

這能讓澱粉，也就是我們最終要轉化成威士忌的東西，保持乾淨，沒有任何汙染。

Equally important to the quality of the grain is the quality of another vital ingredient, water.

和穀物品質同等重要的，是另一種重要原料的品質：水。

This comes from a spring in a local limestone cave.

這是來自當地石灰岩洞穴裡的泉水。

The thing with the limestone, it's very mineral rich.

石灰岩的特別之處在於，它富含礦物質。

And the other thing that limestone does is it removes iron.

石灰岩還有一個作用，就是能去除鐵質。

Iron would actually react with the alcohol that we're going to make and turn it black and very bitter.

鐵質會和我們要製作的酒精產生反應，讓酒變黑且非常苦澀。

So this is a natural, perfect water source to make whiskey.

所以這是製作威士忌的天然、完美的水源。

There's actually two miles deep of water, and

這裡其實有兩英里深的地下水，

we are pumping out right now about 300 gallons a minute or so.

我們現在每分鐘大約抽取 300 加侖。

We do that continuously goes up into our tanks and then it's pumped into our distillery.

我們會持續將水送到儲水槽，然後再打進蒸餾廠。

So the first step of making whiskey is grinding that grain, combining it with our cake water in our cookers to create the mash.

所以，製作威士忌的第一步是研磨穀物，將其與我們的「蛋糕水」在煮鍋中混合，製成麥芽糊。

Mash is the mixture of cooked grain and water which is heated to break down starches, turning them into sugars, and

麥芽糊是煮熟的穀物和水的混合物，加熱後能分解澱粉，轉化為糖，

而且他們是以工業規模生產的。

So ultimately, what we put into Each fermenter is 40,000 gallons of Cave Spring water with about 1700 bushels of grain.

所以最後，我們放進每個發酵槽的是 40,000 加侖的 Cave Spring 水，以及大約 1700 蒲式耳的穀物。

The mash gets a transformative element added yeast.

麥芽糊會加入轉化元素——酵母。

It's the key to making alcohol as it ferments the mash.

酵母是製造酒精的關鍵，因為它能發酵麥芽糊。

But it's got a waste to go before it becomes whiskey.

但它在變成威士忌之前，還有個過程要走。