Whiskey Composition: Identification of Components by Single‐Pass Gas Chromatography‐Mass Spectrometry

SUMMARY– A single‐pass gas‐liquid chromatography method is described for identifying compounds not reported previously in distilled alcoholic liquors. Water‐free concentrates of ether‐pentane extracts of the distillates were injected into a gas chromatographic column train and the column effluent transported to a mass spectrometer. Several hydrocarbons, and compounds apparently resulting from the reaction of acrolein with ethyl alcohol, were identified in the samples.