What does volatile mean in relation to congeners? Aroma #Shorts with Dr Gordon Steele

What does volatile mean in relation to congeners? Dr Gordon Steele explains 👃🥃

Volatile just means it can turn into a gas. If an object doesn't have anything volatile on it, it has no smell. There must come from the object (in this case whisky) congeners.

The good thing about whisky, of course, is we distil it so that we make it into a gas in the stills and we condense it so everything within whisky other than a few maturation congeners are volatile. And that's why we get such a complex flavour from whisky is because it's made up of so many volatiles.

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