Sweet Mash In North America, mash containing no backset. Tails See feints. Thin Stillage Stillage with the solids removed. Uisge Beatha Gaelic for 'water of life', in time abbreviated and corrupted to 'whisky'. Vatted Malt Malt whisky blended from several distilleries.
Vatted malts contain no grain whisky.
Vatting The blending of malt or grain whiskies from different distilleries. Wash The alcoholic liquid that is distilled to make whisky. Wash Back In Scotland, the vessel in which the worts are fermented. Still In pot still distillation, the first still. The products of this still go to the spirit still.