Tippling point | How do you like your whisky, with or without an ‘e’? The world of spirits is rich and sometimes complicated, we help you tell your Scotch from bourbon and why the Japanese are taking the whisky world by storm. February 06, 2021 / 12:35 PM IST We have been into whiskies since the day we started drinking but how many of us read a label and see an Irish Single Pot Still apart from a bourbon? What the heck man, it is all whisky, right? Wait. How did you just spell it? Whisky or whiskey? That letter 'e' itself matters big in the world of spirits—the world is split into two, with countries like Scotland, Canada and Japan shunning the 'e', while the US and Ireland holding on to it religiously).