This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing alcoholic liquors by distillation and in manufacturing cordials and alcoholic cocktails by blending, processing, or mixing liquors and other ingredients.

Liquors must be distilled, and distillery is a chemical process.

It varies widely. The average is 40% though.

If you didn't distill the malted barley, it would be called beer!.

Scotch whisky is one which is distilled,blended and bottled in scotland