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Growth of Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Aging Cask-Matured Whisky
[Image: see text] The maturation of spirit in wooden casks is key to the production of whisky, a hugely popular and valuable product, with the transfer and reaction of molecules from the wooden cask with the alcoholic spirit imparting color and flavor. However, time in the cask adds significant cost...
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American Chemical Society
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9624259/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36338330 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.2c03406 |
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author | Gracie, Jennifer Zamberlan, Francesco Andrews, Iain B. Smith, Brian O. Peveler, William J. |
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description | [Image: see text] The maturation of spirit in wooden casks is key to the production of whisky, a hugely popular and valuable product, with the transfer and reaction of molecules from the wooden cask with the alcoholic spirit imparting color and flavor. However, time in the cask adds significant cost to the final product, requiring expensive barrels and decades of careful storage. Thus, many producers are concerned with what “age” means in terms of the chemistry and flavor profiles of whisky. We demonstrate here a colorimetric test for spirit “agedness” based on the formation of gold nanoparticles (NPs) by whisky. Gold salts were reduced by barrel-aged spirit and produce colored gold NPs with distinct optical properties. Information from an extinction profile, such as peak position, growth rate, or profile shape, was analyzed, and our assay output was correlated with measurements of the whisky sample makeup, assays for key functional groups, and spiking experiments to explore the mechanism in more detail. We conclude that age is not just a number, that the chemical fingerprint of key flavor compounds is a useful marker for determining whisky “age”, and that our simple reduction assay could assist in defining the aged character of a whisky and become a useful future tool on the warehouse floor. |
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spelling | pubmed-96242592022-11-02 Growth of Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Aging Cask-Matured Whisky Gracie, Jennifer Zamberlan, Francesco Andrews, Iain B. Smith, Brian O. Peveler, William J. ACS Appl Nano Mater [Image: see text] The maturation of spirit in wooden casks is key to the production of whisky, a hugely popular and valuable product, with the transfer and reaction of molecules from the wooden cask with the alcoholic spirit imparting color and flavor. However, time in the cask adds significant cost to the final product, requiring expensive barrels and decades of careful storage. Thus, many producers are concerned with what “age” means in terms of the chemistry and flavor profiles of whisky. We demonstrate here a colorimetric test for spirit “agedness” based on the formation of gold nanoparticles (NPs) by whisky. Gold salts were reduced by barrel-aged spirit and produce colored gold NPs with distinct optical properties. Information from an extinction profile, such as peak position, growth rate, or profile shape, was analyzed, and our assay output was correlated with measurements of the whisky sample makeup, assays for key functional groups, and spiking experiments to explore the mechanism in more detail. We conclude that age is not just a number, that the chemical fingerprint of key flavor compounds is a useful marker for determining whisky “age”, and that our simple reduction assay could assist in defining the aged character of a whisky and become a useful future tool on the warehouse floor. American Chemical Society 2022-10-06 2022-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9624259/ /pubmed/36338330 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.2c03406 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Permits the broadest form of re-use including for commercial purposes, provided that author attribution and integrity are maintained (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Gracie, Jennifer Zamberlan, Francesco Andrews, Iain B. Smith, Brian O. Peveler, William J. Growth of Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Aging Cask-Matured Whisky |
title | Growth of Plasmonic
Nanoparticles for Aging Cask-Matured
Whisky |
title_full | Growth of Plasmonic
Nanoparticles for Aging Cask-Matured
Whisky |
title_fullStr | Growth of Plasmonic
Nanoparticles for Aging Cask-Matured
Whisky |
title_full_unstemmed | Growth of Plasmonic
Nanoparticles for Aging Cask-Matured
Whisky |
title_short | Growth of Plasmonic
Nanoparticles for Aging Cask-Matured
Whisky |
title_sort | growth of plasmonic
nanoparticles for aging cask-matured
whisky |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9624259/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36338330 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.2c03406 |
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