* Single Malt Whisky – A term coined in the 1970s during the malt whisky revival, used to define the whisky of one distillery made with 100 percent malted barley.
* Scotch – A blended whisky made in Scotland.
* Irish Whiskey – Whiskey made in Ireland, normally a blend of pot still whiskey with malted barley and grain whiskey.
* Bourbon – An American whiskey with 51 percent or more corn mash aged for two years in charred oak barrels.
* Tennessee Whiskey – a whiskey with no specific grain criteria but normally made with corn mash and charcoal filtering.
