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Spirits, Liqour and other Strong Alcohol
Strong Drink plays a part in many cultures around the world. From Saki in Japan, Vodka in Russian, Bourbon in the US and Scotch Whisky in Scotland & Irish Whiskey in Ireland. Here we'll gather articles on Alcohol, varities, customs and... [more]
Strong Drink plays a part in many cultures around the world. From Saki in Japan, Vodka in Russian, Bourbon in the US and Scotch Whisky in Scotland & Irish Whiskey in Ireland. Here we'll gather articles on Alcohol, varities, customs and history.
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An attempt to educate the sponges who take pleasure in knowing what they like... who believe in relishing rather than gulping who agree on "Kill all who Crawl..." I will try to decode a Whiskey/Whisky Bottle Label here… m sure to add taste to your next drink to know the elixir inside them. Whisky vs Whiskey … Spelling a question? I will not babble a lot on this issue as both are just right. If distilled in Scotland, Wales, Canada, Japan you call it whisky and if in Ireland or US it is...
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Drinking Tequila is ubiquitous with growing up in San Diego. During prohibition, Hollywood movie stars would come down to the then sleepy little border towns of Tijuana and Rosarito Beach to get their moonshine drink on. From the 1950s and on into 90’s San Diegans and Angelinos crossed the border on the quest for drunken adventures “Big Wednesday” style. If you have seen movie, you know what I am talking about.
For the most part, foreign frolickers would be served watered down rot-gut...
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Sunday afternoon was all she had to look forward to now. She would sit on the porch, alone as she had been for the past two years, sipping absinthe, allowing her mind to wander. When he had been here, he would drink absinthe with her on Sundays and after the absinthe they always made love. As they grew older and their sex life diminished, the Sunday absinthe ritual remained, even if they only lay together in an absinthe afterglow.
Sipping the aromatic aperitif she remembered the first Sunday...
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In 1886 William Grant founded a distillery in Scotland, and became the first person to market Scotch Whiskey outside the United Kingdom. In 1960, the chairman of the company purchased one of four Carter-head stills in existence, and restored it to produce Hendrick’s gin. Infused with oil from Bulgarian rose petals, and cucumber - the gin is superb. The recipe suggested by the Grant family, still in control of the company - is take 2 oz...
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Virginia drinkers have something new to try. State Alcoholic Beverage Control stores have begun carrying absinthe, a liquor banned for 95 years in the United States until May 2007.
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Lynne Terry Listen here: Download MP3 here. (7.5 MB) Subscribe via an iTunes account Subscribe via RSS by copying feed link into a podcast program In The Oregonian's news podcast, Today in Oregon, for Tuesday, July 8, 2008: • The...
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Virginia drinkers have something new to try. State Alcoholic Beverage Control stores have begun carrying absinthe, a liquor banned for 95 years in the United States until May 2007.
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Virginia drinkers have something new to try. State Alcoholic Beverage Control stores have begun carrying absinthe, a liquor banned for 95 years in the United States until May 2007.
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At a moving Rose Garden ceremony Monday, President Clinton poured a 40-ounce bottle of King Cobra malt liquor on the ground in honor of his dead homies.
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Swiss absinthe, the mythical liquor known to some as Green Fairy, has taken wing thanks to a surge in demand by drinkers in the United States.
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A distillery in Oregon is the second in the nation to begin producing absinthe. Southeast Portland's Integrity Spirits is the first distillery in the state to make the once-forbidden drink and the second in the ...
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Integrity Spirits , a Portland-based craft distillery, announced today that its new "Trillium" Absinthe -- one of the first legally-available absinthe products in the United States, and the first ever produced in its home state -- is now on shelves in Oregon liquor stores.
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The Ohio Investigative Unit has cited more than 40 central Ohio bars for refilling and diluting liquor bottles since 2004.
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Local youth from Scottsbluff Project Extra Mile on Thursday urged the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission to classify flavored alcoholic beverages as distilled spirits rather than beer.
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