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People choose to brew their own beer for a variety of reasons. Many homebrew to avoid a higher cost of buying commercially equivalent beverages. [10] Brewing domestically also affords one the freedom to adjust recipes according to one's own preference, create beverages that are unavailable on the open market or beverages that may contain fewer calories, or less or more alcohol.
Corn whiskey is an American liquor made principally from corn.Distinct from the stereotypical American moonshine, in which sugar is normally added to the mash, corn whiskey uses a traditional mash process, [1] and is subject to the tax and identity laws for alcohol under federal law.
The staff uses Washington's original mash bill and 18th-century methods. The grain is processed in Washington's water-powered gristmill, fermented in wooden mash tubs and distilled in copper pot stills heated by wood fires. In Washington's time whiskey was not aged but this recipe calls for it to be distilled twice. [5]
Varieties of wine brandy can be found across the winemaking world. Among the most renowned are Cognac and Armagnac from south-western France. [1] [2] In a broader sense, the term brandy also denotes liquors obtained from the distillation of pomace (yielding pomace brandy), or mash or wine of any other fruit (fruit brandy).
Moonshine can be made both more palatable and perhaps less dangerous by discarding the "foreshot" – the first 50–150 millilitres (1.8–5.3 imp fl oz; 1.7–5.1 US fl oz) of alcohol that drip from the condenser. Because methanol vaporizes at a lower temperature than ethanol, it is commonly believed that the foreshot contains most of the ...
In 1947, U.K. exports of Scotch totaled 8 million U.S. proof gallons, a proof gallon being equivalent to a gallon of liquor at 100 proof, in 1977 the figure was 113 million.
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, it can sometimes be used more broadly to refer to any alcoholic beverage (or even non-alcoholic products of distillation or various other liquids).
Cranberry Mimosa. Iowa, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Hawaii . Seven states seem to prefer a Christmas brunch drink for the holidays.