All good whiskey comes from a good mash. All good beer comes from a good mash. I think one could argue meaningfully that all good things come from a good mash.
A carefully chosen selection of cereal grain is malted and dried, ground to grist and mixed with measures of water and heat to become the mash. Before it was mash, it was grain and as grain it was full of possibility. Mash is the animation of grain, the step in which its purpose becomes the fermentation of spirits.
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