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Beer that went to law school, got a barrel, and billed you triple.
means A distilled spirit made from fermented grain mash, typically aged in wooden casks.
from From Scottish Gaelic 'uisge beatha' (and Irish 'uisce beatha'), meaning 'water of life' — itself a translation of the Latin 'aqua vitae' used by medieval distillers and monks. English speakers clipped the unwieldy Gaelic phrase down to 'usquebaugh' and then further to 'whisky,' keeping the grand claim but losing the poetry in translation.
- spelling tell
- no e means Scotland or Japan, not Kentucky
- angel's share
- casks lose 2 percent yearly to evaporation, literally
- age label rule
- number shown is the youngest cask in the blend
- color trick
- caramel coloring legally added, oak alone rarely matches