Tuesday, 5. November 2002
Topic: - on November 5, 2002 at 10:57:34 AM CET
What's in That Bottle of Jack Daniel's? A Chemistry Mystery
You can taste the vanillin in Jack Daniel's, but not the syringic acid. Fermentation and distillation are chemical processes, so it is not surprising that early this year, the makers of Jack Daniel's, the venerable whiskey distilled in Lynchburg, Tenn., since 1866, started using modern chemical analytical tools to improve their understanding of the 60 percent of their product that is not alcohol.
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