No. All the color is from oak aging.
The beautiful carmel color of whiskey should come from wood casts but this takes time and is expensive. Young whiskies have carmel added to achieve the color. This is what I have understood. My follow-on question is: how does added carmel change the flavor of whiskey?
Whiskey is usually 75 cal a shot, but I never heard of " light " whiskey, unless you mean the color, and the color makes no difference. If you are pregnant, no alcohol is the generallyaccepted rule.
Hemicelluloses and tannins
AA on a whiskey bottle stands for "Ancient Age". On the whiskey bottle also reads "federal law forbids sale or reuse of this bottle"; this bottle is usually amber in color.
I certainly don't know, but perhaps some of the color comes from being aged in wood barrels.
I bought a purple glass pumpkin seed whiskey bottle for $25. Price probably varies by color.
Neither George Dickel nor Jack Daniel's add coloring to their whiskey. As you may suspect following the distillation and charcoal filtering (a necessary additional step to make a Tennessee whiskey) processes, both of these whiskeys are virtually colorless. The whiskey is then aged in charred white oak barrels for several years (the actual number depends both on the brand and the number of the whiskey being sold). It is during this aging process that the whiskey acquires its soft caramel color.
All whiskey starts out clear or colorless. The color is given through its time in oak barrels. "White lightning," another name for moonshine or illegally produced spirits that is not aged.
Whiskey is whiskey because whiskey is distilled in whiskey farms, by distillers of whiskey. My friend who was there at the time of this rebellion, Bethsarh, informs me "I was distraught by the loss of mon3y because my whiskey was not whiskey enough for the whiskey seller in the market of whiskey selling."
WhiskEy is from Ireland, whiskey is from Scotland and elsewhere.
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