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THE QUALITATIVE COMPOSITION OF PEAT SMOKE
Author(s) -
Macfarlane C.,
Lee J. B.,
Evans M. B.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of the institute of brewing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.523
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 2050-0416
pISSN - 0046-9750
DOI - 10.1002/j.2050-0416.1973.tb03524.x
Subject(s) - chemistry , peat , smoke , boiling , chromatography , composition (language) , furan , mass spectrometry , phenols , boiling point , organic chemistry , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , biology
Peat smoke, produced and collected in an apparatus which is described, was distilled to obtain compounds with boiling points which would not preclude their presence in malt whisky. An oil phase and an aqueous phase were obtained and these were analysed separately using GLC, TLC and a combination of GLC and Mass Spectrometry. A number of phenols, two furan aldehydes and series of alkanes, alkenes and aromatic hydrocarbons were found.