peat moss that was dug out of a peat bog, and lugged home, and dried, and then burnt.
peat smoke and barley beers and some of them were maybe ahead of their time and some of them just sucked.
And peat moss has a very distinctive aroma.
The peat 's making its round, the smoke?
So peatlands are wetland ecosystems.
So peatlands need some love, you know?
They live in the peat swamps of Borneo.
If you left peat alone for long enough under the right conditions, it would become coal.
This is what a peat bog looks like.
Then there's the peatlands, and the wetlands, and the grasslands.
This is a harvested peatland.
need to know about peatlands.
that the world's peatlands would then hold as of mid-century.
And we have a lot of peat in our turf, basically.
What they do have is peat moss.
And that is the aroma of peat moss.
This is where we actually harvest the peat that we'll then use to dry the malt.
women and children of the peat tribe in New England in 1637 paraphrasing what Dale McCartney
We had PhD students working on peatland conservation in Colombia, food system modeling in India, gendered climate vulnerability in Madagascar, indigenous-led
But one thing about our peated whisky is that if you like whiskies like Ardbeg or, say--
And so we're laying down whiskeys-- peated whiskeys, smoky whiskeys, rye whiskeys-- lots of different styles so that hopefully we can respond to consumer
And one of them was Adam Peaty, who happened to be the kid who was coached by Mel Marshall.
heath land, and also peat bog, and that made firefighting efforts even more complicated.
And it built up these huge deposits of peat and then coal, which powered first Britain and then the rest of Europe and the world through Industrial
as grasslands, peatlands, as well as forests, different forests, so tropical as well as temperate forests.
So Kavalan's peated single malt whisky, I would say it is very mildly peated .
And you have peat .
And those four fuels, and especially coal and peat , would be the highest-- but oil, because it's the most used fuel for transport and for all other uses--
where Bord na Mona was developing an industry around the harvesting of peat for fuel.
For Scotch and Irish whiskies, we have peat , which you guys all just smelled and tasted, and then the astringent notes that come from the alcohol itself.
spot fires burning deep, sometimes as deep as 1 or 2 m in the peaty ground.
Are there any plans to introduce a peated malt, like a heavily peated malt?
So these days, we see that more and more consumers globally who like peated whisky.
Hopefully by early next year, we should be able to launch our very first peated expression of Kavalan
These are quite heavily peated .
So what we've looked at here is the impact of expanding the acreage of protected peatlands.
So Mike Adams on the left was from California, Andy Peatling in the middle was from Ireland, and Beau Lebens on the right was from Australia.
Scientists aren’t debating if climate change will bring serious warming to the planet, they’re debating things like the importance of peat bogs for carbon storage
Ovens weren't really a thing at all until the invention and popularization of the cast iron stove, which on Iceland was most often fired with peat .
Previously, Brett was a partner at KPMG Peat
So these would be things like forests, grasslands, so-called blue carbon, all the amazing aquatic vegetation on our planet, wetlands, peatlands.
So that was three years ago, so 2016, we started to produce our peated new make.
So just enough for you to notice on the nose, but when you try it on the palate, that's when the all these peated molecules and also
When we were working on the book, it was like, how do we give peatllands some sparkle and some magic?
that you're drinking-- whatever it is, if you're tasting the strawberry notes in a nice glass of white wine or the smoke in a peated Ila whisky--