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Distilled liquor
Of or pertaining to any alcoholic beverage obtained by distillation from wine, fermented fruit or plant juice, or from various cereal grains that have first been brewed.
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stills
Beverages; Distilled liquor
The horizontal pipe from the top of the still to the worm is called the Lyne Arm (I've also seen 'lye pipe'). There is a fair variation in the design of these and distilleries will vigorously defend ...
whisky
Beverages; Distilled liquor
The name is an English corruption of the ancient name for spirits "water of life" - which in Scottish and Irish Gaelic is "uisge beatha" or "usquebaugh" and sounded to the English ear like "uishgi" ...
scotch
Beverages; Distilled liquor
means simply that the whisky was distilled and matured in Scotland. Whiskies are made in other countries, notably Ireland and Japan but whiskies they may be, and good ones even, but Scotch they are ...
malt whisky
Beverages; Distilled liquor
This indicates that the raw material is barley malt, by itself fermented with yeast and distilled in a pot still. This produced a far superior whisky to the common grain whisky found in blends. Note ...
casks
Beverages; Distilled liquor
Casks are critical to the taste and appearance of the final whisky. The need is for casks wich will impart a characteristic taste to the whisky without dominaing it or imparting a 'woody' flavour. ...
maturation
Beverages; Distilled liquor
The whisky is left a minimum of three years but usually between 8 and 25 years in wooden barrels to mature. The bonded warehouses are cool and earth-floored to provide an even temperature and ...
marrying
Beverages; Distilled liquor
Occasionally bottlings are produced from one single cask - the so-called 'single single' malts. More normally, several casks of similar ages from the one distillery will be 'married' by vatting them ...
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