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.
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Grains = Beer
Grapes = Wine
Fruit = Fruit wines or brandies
Sugar Cane = Rum
Agave = Tequila
Corn = Bourbon and Whiskey
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.
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
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.
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fermented grain like barley and rye aged in wooden casks made generally of oak
ethanol
Ethanol.
De-alcoholized scotch or hard liquor is quite uncommon. There was a drink called Clayton's which resembled whiskey. However, it is no longer made.
Schnaps Scotch
rasna and coldy...
Scotch and Drambouie come to mind.
I belive most are. The Macallan is distilled twice.
Antiquity whiskey is matured whiskey with age made anywhere while Scotch Whisky is malt whiskey made in Scotland. In Scotland it's spelt "Whisky" from "uisge" Gaelic for water. "Whiskey" refers to liquor produced elswhere.
Scotch is a liquor. Are you thinking of the Scots Pine? Scots, Scot, and Scottish are words that can refer to people or things from or related to Scotland.
It belongs to Seagrams Company Ltd.
Beer Liquor or Alcohol:In the US, technically, beer is not a considered a liquor, but is an alcoholic drink an the same laws apply as those that pertain to bourbon, scotch, vodka, etc.
Any liquor store. LCBO, MLCC, SAQ, ...
Whatever you like really. Classically, scotch, port, and cognac have been favorites.
Isle of Jura Single Malt is a Scotch whiskey distilled on the island of Jura.