whisky tint 12

[kallaskander]

Hi there,

today I had a Macallan Fine Oak 21 and a Fine Oak 25 in wooden boxes in hands.

On the labels I noticed that the 21 was marked "whisky tint 12" the 25 with "whisky tint 15".

Indeed the 25yo is darker.

I tried to find a scale somewhere - on the Macallan homepage as well - to learn more about what the tint value stands for or is supposed to tell me.

Has somebody here progressed further in this quest?

Greetings
kallaskander

[andyt]

I have seen the European Brewery Convention scale being used for whisky, perhaps this is the same.

http://www.scientificsocieties.org/jib/ ... 0-1168.pdf

http://colour.tintometer.com/Scale.aspx?ID=19

The first link is a cracking read if nothing else.