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peated water. The level of smokiness of a whisky is determined by the time the barley grain is exposed to the pungent peat smoke during drying. Damp malt is usually dried for approximately 30 hours. Laphroaig dries its malt over peat fire for about 18 of these 30 hours, while Glengoyne uses only unpeated fire.
The word whisky (or whiskey) is an anglicisation of the Classical Gaelic word uisce / uisge meaning water (now written as uisce in Irish Gaelic, and uisge in Scottish Gaelic). Distilled alcohol was known in Latin as aqua vitae (water of life). Blended malt whisky is a mixture of single malt whiskies from different distilleries. 2  If a whisky is labelled pure malt or just malt it is almost certainly a blended malt whisky. 3  This was formerly called a vatted malt whisky. 4  Blended whisky is made from a mixture of different types of whisky.