What is Scotch liquor made from?

Answer 1

Alcoholic Beverages are made using the fermentation process. Take any liquid with a high sugar content and expose it to yeast.

The yeast will convert the sugars to carbon dioxide (the bubbles found in beer and sparkling wines) and alcohol.

If the resulting liquid is distilled to remove water and impurities, you end up with distilled spirits.

The source of the sugar often determines what the resulting liquids will be.

Start with and you will get

Grains = Beer

Grapes = Wine

Fruit = Fruit wines or brandies

Sugar Cane = Rum

Agave = Tequila

Corn = Bourbon and Whiskey

Answer 2

A distilled beverage, liquor, or spirit is a drinkable liquid containing ethanol that is produced by distilling, i.e. concentrating by distillation, the alcohol and other compounds produced by fermented grain, fruit, or vegetables. This excludes undistilled fermented beverages such as beer, wine, and hard cider.

The term hard liquor is used in North America to distinguish distilled beverages from undistilled ones (implicitly weaker).

Beer and wine are limited to a maximum alcohol content of about 20% ABV, as most yeasts cannot reproduce when the concentration of alcohol is above this level; consequently, fermentation ceases at that point.

The term spirit refers to a distilled beverage that contains no added sugar and has at least 20% ABV. Popular spirits include brandy, fruit brandy (also known as eau-de-vie / Schnapps), gin, rum, tequila, vodka, and whisky.

Distilled beverages that are bottled with added sugar and added flavorings, such as Grand Marnier, Frangelico, and American schnapps, are liqueurs.

In common usage, the distinction between spirits and liqueurs is widely unknown or ignored; consequently all alcoholic beverages other than beer and wine are generally referred to simply as spirits.

Fortified wines are created by adding a distilled beverage (often brandy) to a wine.

Answer 3

Alcohol can be made from many things. Pretty much anything with sugar in.

Potatoes( vodka) cactii (tequila) Sugar cane (rum) even things like nettles, rhubarb etc.

The term alcohol is actually a general term for group of organic chemicals. e.g methanol (in methylated spirits), ethanol ( in alcoholic drinks), propanol (used as a fuel).

All alcohol is composed of Carbon, Oxygen and Hyrogen

Answer 4

Depends on the Spirit. Rum is distilled primarily from Sugar Cane. Whiskey from Grains. Vodka can be made from several different ingredients (most famously Potatoes). Gin from White Grain and Juniper Beans. Tequila from a plant called an agave.

Hope this helps,

Cheers

Answer 5

fermented grain like barley and rye aged in wooden casks made generally of oak

Answer 6

ethanol

Answer 7

Ethanol.