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TEN LITTLE-KNOWN AUSTRALIAN WHISKY FACTOIDS • Australia was the fifth largest whisky producing nation in the world until the 1960s, when Japan moved up the rankings: 1. Scotland , 2. US, 3. Canada, 4. Ireland. • Today, Australian whisky represents less than 0.03 per cent of total world whisky sales, excluding Indian and Thai molasse s-based whiskies. • Australian whisky whisky drunk, yet cent of the global Thai whisky made
holds 0.3 per cent of the Australians drink over 5 per whisky (excluding India and with molasses).
• About 100 distilleries make whisky, two-thirds of the sales are from STARWARD, Hellyers Road and Limeburners . • In the 1920s, Australia had the largest malt whisky distillery in the world, Federal Distillery, in Port Melbourne . It also had the world's largest mash tun at 2.75 million litres. • Until 1994, two of Australia's largest grain whisky distilleries quietly operated in Botany, Sydney and Nuriootpa in the Barossa Valley. Seagram's Continental and United Distillers closed these distilleries as the first nano-malt whiskies started. • Australia has the highest per capita consumption of bourbon in the world, 2.5 times more than the US. • In 1925, the number one selling brand of whisky in Australia was Old Court. It was an Australian blended malt whisky, the first and only time a malt whisky brand was a market leader anywhere in the world. • The first Australian whisky was made at Parramatta by the Webb brothers in 1793; by 1796 distilling was banned until 1822 . • Australia was the UK's top export market for Scotch whisky every year from 1880 to 1939. After the Second World War, Australian whisky brands held 75% of the local whisky market.
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