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Several years ago, I had a long – and admittedly rather geeky – conversation about barley with an expert in the procurement, processing and quality control of the grain for malt Scotch whisky production (wake up at the back). I’ll skip to the end: he reckoned the strain or origin of barley made little or no difference to the flavour of the spirit.

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