The transfer will “assist defend and promote this rising class”, in response to the American Single Malt Fee (ASMWC) and the Distilled Spirits Council of the USA (DISCUS).
“This can be a landmark ruling from the TTB that additional cements our standing on the worldwide stage in whiskey,” mentioned ASMWC president Steve Hawley. “We applaud TTB for listening to the decision from distillers, purveyors and followers of American single malt, and formalising a definition that helps and protects our producers each right here and overseas.”
DISCUS president and chief government, Chris Swonger, added: “That is nice information for America’s distillers and spirits shoppers. Having this formal definition goes to guard the integrity of American single malt whiskey and drive experimentation, creativity and innovation on this common class.”
Provisions of the usual embody: the whiskey have to be produced from a fermented mash of 100% malted barley produced within the US; it will need to have a distillation proof of 160 or much less, distilled on the similar distillery within the US; it have to be saved in used, charred new, or uncharred new oak barrels, with a 700 litre most capability and solely saved within the US; no impartial spirits permitted; and no allowable colouring, flavouring, or mixing supplies permitted, apart from caramel colouring that’s disclosed on the label.
The ultimate rule additionally adopted a typical for straight American single malt whiskey, requiring that it’s aged for no less than two years. The ultimate rule is scheduled to be printed on 18 December and take impact on 19 January 2025.
