Ɗaya daga cikin shahararrun bukukuwa a Scotland shine Speyside Whiskey Festival (Ruhu na Speyside Whiskey Festival).
Amma a cikin 2020, saboda cutar amai da gudawa, an soke taron biki.
Kowace kasa tana da nata kayan amfanin kasa, abin alfaharinta na kasa. Scots suna alfahari da wuski.
Da farkon bazara a Scotland, lokacin bukukuwa da bukukuwan da aka keɓe don whiskey ya fara. Na farko yana farawa Ruhun Bikin Wiski na Speyside, wanda ke ɗaukar kwanaki 6. Yana biye da Feis Ile - bikin Malt da Music. Haka kuma har zuwa Satumba, lokacin da na ƙarshe ya fara - Autumn Speyside Whiskey Festival.
Speyside gida ne ga mafi girman yawan distilleries a duniya. Akwai masana'antu fiye da 100 da ke samar da shahararren abin sha. Akwai shahararrun gidajen abinci - Glenfiddich, Glen Grant, Strathisla…
Sau ɗaya a shekara, jama'a na iya ziyartar masana'antar fitattun masu kera wiski. A lokutan al'ada, masana'antu ba sa barin waje su shiga wuraren aikinsu. Babban abin da ya fi jan hankali a bikin shi ne dandana nau'o'in iri da dama da kuma irin abubuwan sha na kamshi., ciki har da ƙarƙashin jagorancin masana. A lokacin bikin, zaku iya ɗanɗano nau'in wuski mafi ƙanƙanta da balagagge.
A lokacin bikin, ana gudanar da tarurruka tare da masu tarawa waɗanda za su iya raba abubuwan da suka faru, shirye-shiryen raye-raye tare da nuna son kai na kasa. Akwai balaguron tarihi da ke ba da labari game da hanyoyin fasaha, juyin halittar kwalba da ƙira. An shirya ziyarce-ziyarce zuwa garejin gidajen tarihi na masana'antu, inda ake tattara duk samfuran manyan motoci na asali waɗanda suka kai samfuran da ake so ga masu siye. Waɗanda suka shiga cikin waɗanda barasa suka fara farkar da jinin kakanninsu ana gayyatar su shiga wasannin Scotland: jifa itace ko guduma.
Shirin bikin girmama elixir na gida ya hada da wasanni masu ban sha'awa, liyafar cin abinci da abincin dare a cikin distilleries, jam'iyyun Scotland tare da kiɗa da raye-raye, menu na musamman a cikin gidajen cin abinci, gasa daban-daban da gasa, wasan kwaikwayo na salon kilts (Scottish skirts), ziyara. zuwa gidan kayan tarihi na Whiskey da gasa don gina ganga mafi sauri, nune-nunen da maraice na kiɗan gargajiya na Scotland.
Akwai nau'ikan whiskey da yawa a duniya: suna shayar Amurka, tukunyar Irish mai tsafta har yanzu, amma ana yarda da cewa wuski na gaskiya shine Scotch malt whiskey malt.
Tarihin abin sha za a iya komawa zuwa karni na 12. Marubucin duk whiskeys a duniya ana danganta shi ga Saint Patrick, wani ɗan ƙasar Irish ɗan asalin Scots. A cikin littattafan baitul malin Scotland, tun daga 1494, an sami shigarwa mai zuwa: "Ka ba Ɗan'uwa John Carr ƙwallo takwas na malt don ya yi aquavit." – Wannan adadin malt zai isa ya yi kusan kwalabe 1500 na barasa na zamani! Ana ɗaukar wannan kwanan wata a matsayin kusan ranar haihuwar Scotch whiskey, don Latin "aqua vitae" - "ruwa na rayuwa" - an rubuta shi a cikin Celtic a matsayin uisge beatha (a Ireland - uisce beatha). Ya kasance a fili kasala don furta kalmar mai ma'ana biyu. A hankali, uisge kawai ya rage daga kalmomi guda biyu, waɗanda suka rikide zuwa uiskie, sannan kuma zuwa whiskey.
Ingancin wuski ya ƙunshi abubuwa da dama. An bushe malt a cikin hayaki, saboda wannan dalili ana kona gawayi peat. Wurin da ake hakar peat yana da mahimmanci. Gawayi na Aberdeen ya bambanta da gawayin Isle of Skye.
Ana hada malt da ruwa don samar da wort. An fermented wort, dusar ƙanƙara yana distilled, kuma an sami maganin barasa. Maganin yana tsufa a cikin ganga itacen oak. Ingancin wuski ya dogara da nau'in itacen oak, yankin girma. Ana zuba mafi kyawun nau'ikan a cikin ganga na sherry da aka kawo daga yankin Iberian.
Gwamnatin Burtaniya ta kula da ayyana wannan abin sha. A cikin 1988, an zartar da Dokar Wuski ta Scotch. Wurin Scotch ya kai kusan kashi ɗaya bisa huɗu na abubuwan da Albion ke fitarwa.
Yayin da kowa ke da ’yancin shan barasa da ya fi so yadda ya ga dama, akwai wasu ka’idoji da ya kamata a bi wajen zabar gilashi da dandana giya domin a yaba da abin sha da kuma inganta dandano.