Is Scotch whiskey vegan?

[trof]

It would seem to be.
???

[Richard Steele]

1. I've never found any pork in it.

It would seem to be, wouldn't it?

[billyskank]

2. The Scottish spell whisky without an e.

If it's Scotch, it's not whiskey. No idea if it's good for vegans or not.

[trof]

3. Oh damn. I knew that.

:shrug:

[Xipe Totec]

10. Scotch is the national drink of Mexico

Tequila is exported to buy more scotch.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. I don't know, but Irish Whiskey is God

[trof]

8. It's always my second choice.

Up the British.

[DarkTirade]

15. I've always found irish whiskey good for mixing with other things

but scotch better for drinking straight.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

17. I drink it either straight or with ginger ale

Sometimes an Irish coffee.

If I'm drinking it straight, I go for the Jameson 1780. It's smoother than the regular Jameson.

[DarkTirade]

18. I usually go for irish coffee, or I use irish whiskey around the holidays in my eggnog.

:)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. If I have a cold, I pretty much live off of jameson hot toddies

Soothes the throat and after a few, you don't feel as sick.

[flvegan]

5. Yup, pretty much universally.

[trof]

7. So I'm not inviolation of any of the 'rules'?

whew

[Critters2]

6. I think it is. Can't see how animal products would be part of the distilling process.

Sadly, Irish Cream is not vegan. It has real cream in it. :cry:

[trof]

9. Dang. It's SO complicated.

I can't keep up.

[flvegan]

12. How long you been at the vegan thang?

[trof]

26. Since I started this thread.

I'm over it now.
;-)

[kentauros]

21. If "bone char" is used in any filtering process,

as is done with cane sugar to make it white ("brown sugar" is simply white sugar with the molasses put back in) then it's not vegan.

You also have to be aware that some ales, stouts and wines are made with isinglass and thus, not vegan. I had to give up Bass Ale for this reason :(

[Sebastian Doyle]

25. Well, that would make "Bass Ale" appropriately named then, I guess

Even if it's actually Sturgeon.

Funny, I never thought Guinness or Bass tasted fishy. Or fish bladdery. :beer:

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

11. Water and malted barley dried over peat. That's all the ingredients

of any Scotch I've ever drank. So, yes.

[Chan790]

13. A check of Barnavore showed no non-vegan Scotch...

but no blanket statement covering processing. The following Scotch are known to be vegan: The Macallen, Johnie Walker(all varieties), Glenmorangie. Anything else, it's up to you if you want to risk it.

In contrast, Irish law stipulates the process that may be used to make Irish Whiskey and that law (Irish Whiskey Act of 1980) forbids the use of anything other than grain, yeast, water and aging in wooden barrels to produce any product made in Ireland labeled as Whiskey and forbids clarifiers. The only one which is questionable is Jameson...based on one report of one correspondence with the company claiming use of isenglass rebutted by six saying Jameson is vegan...including the one citing the Irish Whiskey Act, 1980.

Barnivore is a handy website for determining the veganness of alcohol. www.barnivore.com

[LeftyMom]

14. I was going to suggest Barnivore.

:thumbsup:

[Turbineguy]

16. It contains no meat

drink as much as you can without guilt.

However: the people who make it contain meat.

[harmonicon]

20. yep

[jobycom]

22. No

I don't think p*ss is vegan. :rofl:

Now I'll spend the rest of my life hiding from men in kilts and bagpipes.

[flvegan]

23. Hiding from bagpipes?

That's some crazy Clockwork Orange type shit there.

[jobycom]

24. Men in bagpipes.

The Lep Recons are clever.

[jmowreader]

27. Piss falls under the same category as breastmilk

No animals are exploited during its production.