Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines joins hands with Adnams for help age whisky

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

We are aware that whisky goes well with water. Hence, a foremost cruise line has offered space aboard its world sail to help age a container of indigenous single malt.

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines headquartered in Ipswich, has joined hands with Suffolk-based brewer Adnams to organize a nine-year-old barrel that is in its ultimate year of fruition.

The mild movement of the sea aboard the ship Borealis which put out to sea this weekend on its 103-night global cruise, will aid the liquor reach finest taste with the continual wave of the sea tossing the whisky, growing its contact with the wood of the container.

The continuous interaction with the wood brings out tint of the soul along with increased taste due to strong caramelization of the wood sugars of the barrels and the salt air penetrating the barrel and adding salty taste to the whisky with the vaporization of the liquid.

Thomas Rennesland, the Hotel Operations Director of Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines said that it is essentially a centuries-old naval practice. Before glass bottles came in, liquors were carried in casks from where they were prepared to where they were traded.

Rennesland said that the time and continuous wave is well-known to smooth and ripe these spirits thereby rendering them with an exclusive taste.

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