Livsnjutaren skrev:I Pers bok står
"Maltet som används vid distilleriet röks normalt till halten 35ppm phenols. För några år sedan genomfördes experiment då maltet istället hårdröktes till 50 ppm (samma som Ardbeg) men nu har destilleriledningen återgått till de traditionella 35ppm."
Så ni har rätt båda två.

Jag hittade samma info på en annan sida; SMAD's...
Nå, att göra experiment och att använda det som standard är inte riktigt samma sak.
Det märkliga är att jag i princip inte hittat något som bekräftat detta påstående, snarare tvärtom.
MaltManiacs har också funderingar på detta:
Traditionally, most distilleries in Scotland did their own floor maltings. I'm a bit fuzzy about the details, but it seems that somewhere in the early 1980's all distilleries on Islay decided to use (at least some) Port Ellen maltings for their whisky. Maybe this coincided with the end of actual whisky distillation at Port Ellen in 1983, but I'm not sure. The 'original' phenol level for Lagavulin mentioned here and there is 35 PPM, but it's unclear whether this indicates the phenol level of the malted barley or the freshly distilled spirit. There are rumours about experiments with 50 PPM phenol levels as well. Where and when these experiments took place I don't know. Thinking about this I came up with a wild theory: maybe the text 'Port Ellen' on the new bottles of Lagavulin 16 indicates that they used Port Ellen maltings for it?
It's very hard to find out the exact details about these matters - I may get back to this topic in the future if I can find more reliable data. For now, I'd like to point out that the perceived 'peatieness' of a single malt whisky depends on much more than just the 'chemical' phenol level. So even if we would be able to collect more reliable data on this topic we wouldn't be able to accurately predict the outcome (= the malt in our glasses more than sixteen years later).
Och varför dementerar tre 'säkra källor' detta? Hittade dessutom små sekvenser hos Malt-L listningar som pekar mot en undran om detta stämmer.