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While current beers are 3–5% alcohol, the beer drunk in the historical past was generally 1% or so. [citation needed] This was known as 'small beer'. However, the production and distribution of spirits spread slowly. Spirit drinking was still largely for medicinal purposes throughout most of the 16th century. It has been said of distilled ...
Other terms for liquor include spirit, spirituous liquor or hard liquor. While the word liquor ordinarily refers to distilled alcoholic spirits rather than beverages produced by fermentation alone, [1] it can sometimes be used more broadly to refer to any alcoholic beverage (or even non-alcoholic products of distillation or various other ...
Distilled beverages (also called liquors or spirit drinks) are alcoholic drinks produced by distilling (i.e., concentrating by distillation) ethanol produced by means of fermenting grain, fruit, or vegetables. [36] Unsweetened, distilled, alcoholic drinks that have an alcohol content of at least 20% ABV are called spirits. [37]
A state-operated liquor and wine store in Utah. Alcoholic beverage control states, generally called control states, less often ABC states, are 17 states in the United States that have state monopolies over the wholesaling or retailing of some or all categories of alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, and distilled spirits.
In his new program, How Booze Built America, Rowe mixes little-known history with economic analysis, puns, and a healthy serving of fermented spirits to explain how the American story is really ...
Dutch or Belgian gin, also known as jenever or genever, evolved from malt wine spirits, and is a distinctly different drink from later styles of gin. Schiedam, a city in the province of South Holland, is famous for its jenever-producing history. The same for Hasselt in the Belgian province of Limburg.
The final preparation contains 1 part absinthe and 3–5 parts water. As water dilutes the spirit, those components with poor water solubility (mainly those from anise, fennel, and star anise) come out of solution and cloud the drink. The resulting milky opalescence is called the louche (/luʃ/, French: 'opaque' or 'shady'). The release of ...
Moonshine news page – Alcohol and Drugs History Society; Georgia Moonshine Archived 23 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine – History and folk traditions in Georgia, USA "Moonshine 'tempts new generation ' " – BBC on distilling illegal liquor in the 21st century. Moonshine Franklin Co Virginia Moonshine Still from the past – Video