Congeners
Vic Cameron, one of our whisky lecturers says: “Congeners are chemical compounds that can either provide a taste or provide an aroma, so they combine together and provide flavour. And it’s what you have in your whisky that gives you the taste, gives you the aroma. Because ethanol itself has no flavour, no taste. So, the congeners that are created all the way through the process - like fermentation and distillation - that’s actually what gives you your whisky the flavour.”
