What do you mean by OB and IB?
OB and IB concept originated in Scotland, one of the origins of whisky, if you want to completely put it two different to speak clearly, I see are able to write a book independently, the following we will probably talk about the whisky coursedifferences between them.
"OB and IB, the learning is very different"
OB (OfficialBottling) is actually very easy to understand, that is, the official canning or original canning means. To put it bluntly, the winery itself from the production of wine, canning, sales are a one-stop package, other manufacturers delusion to earn this money! It has a very significant advantage, will be different batches, age, flavor of whisky to carry out the formulation, in order to cover the defects in the liquid, so that the bottled whisky is closer, proportional, to achieve a more suitable for everyone taste.
IB (IndependentBottling), obviously, is the meaning of separate canning, IB manufacturers do not produce wine, only responsible for canning and selling, there are no so many rules and regulations like OB, in the eyes of Uncle Wine, OB drink is the tradition, and IB looking for surprises.
"2 guys set the IB precedent?"
For now, OB is still more common compared to IB. But it wasn't like that before Oh, speaking of which, Uncle Wine first told you a little story: the
Before the 19th century, the distillery only produced whisky, but did not undertake to age, and did not underwrite the sale. They would wholesale the whole barrel to retailers such as pubs or grocery stores, themselves behind the foot smoking a cigar as a hands-off boss. The retailers received the original wine and sold it incarpet and hard floor steam cleaner bottles, so if people wanted to buy wine, they had to go there.
The change came later in the 19th century, when glass bottles became popular and retailers began to sell whisky in glass bottles for convenience. By 1895, Scotland, there are two named JamesGordon and JohnAlexanderMacPhail lads in partnership to open a grocery store (Gordon & MacPhail).
The boss especially like to drink whiskey, he was thinking: "If I am very partial to whiskey, why not create a whiskey brand of their own?" So he began to buy barrels of whiskey, and sold in their own brand of cans. This behavior, in fact, is IB!
Since those two guys opened up the IB first and after, many retailers saw the business opportunities, red-eyed, have begun to follow suit. But the good times did not last long, closely followed by two world wars, the wine industry got a heavy setback, the vast majority of IB manufacturers have fallen. the number of IB manufacturers decreased significantly. Forced to do nothing, the distilleries only began to fill their own tanks. From that time on, Scotch whisky opened the era of OB and IB dichotomy!
"IB's quality is difficult to guarantee?"
One might think that whether a distillery would sell its own shoddy original spirit to IB makers and then leave the potential spirit to age for itself to facilitate branding is actually all a hollow thing, and IB makers are not fools! Wineries sell wine to IB manufacturers, there have been, this is just a marketing channel, can not say that OB will definitely IB good.
If you think about quality, capable wineries will sell barrels with widely varying styles, including good and bad, in order to unify the personality and taste of the wine with previous years. But if it is some smaller winery, due to the shortage of funds on hand, selling to IB is not an option, but the only way it is.
Anyone who has ever known whisky knows that whisky is actually a wonderful thing, and what seems to be the most important part of distillation in the early stages is actually just the beginning of the shaping of the spirit. The soulKids21 is given to the spirit by the later aging and maturation. The aging process, the storage space in the wooden tub, the temperature, humidity changes will make the liquor will change. If it is aged for a few years, the same wine may develop differently!