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QUOTES, NOTES & ANECDOTES
Alcohol - a liquid good for preserving almost
everything except secrets.
Grog n [Old Grog, nickname of Edward Vernon d.
1757 Eng. admiral responsible for diluting the sailors'
rum] (1770) 1: alcoholic liquor; esp: liquor (as rum)
cut with water and now often served hot with lemon juice
and sugar sometimes added
Fluid dram or flu.i.dram n (ca. 1860): a unit of
liquid capacity equal to 1/8 fluid ounce
Dram - is a measure of whisky the size of which
is determined by the generosity of the pourer.
Bootlegger - The practice of smuggling bottles of
whisky in ones boots led to the word bootlegger.
Moonshine - Because clandestine whisky makers
operated their stills at night their product became
known as moonshine.
The matured age of any blended scotch whisky is that of
the youngest spirits contained in the blend.
"Angels
Share" - The evaporation of Whisky that is
stored in casks. This accounts for approximately 2 % of
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To cater
to the varied taste buds of the people of the
world, Sikkim Distilleries Limited, is constantly
creating, innovating and improving the various
products that are offered to the market, for the
belief that change is constant and the customer
should be given a varied choice is ingrained in
the ethos of the staff.
Sikkim produces a large quantity of ginger and
cardamom and the Company has developed two high
quality liqueurs using their extracts as the base.
An international market is developing for the
extracts and derivatives of natural and herbal
products and Sikkim Distilleries Limited is geared
up to produce, at their state-of-the-art plant,
quality products to whet the appetite of the
discerning customer.
A little known but immensely popular and much
sought after product from the house of Sikkim
Aromatics, a division of Sikkim Distilleries
Limited, is Sikkim Eau-de-Cologne. This cologne
along with after-shave lotions, eau-de-toilettes
and parfumes are some of the products manufactured
by Sikkim Aromatics at their modern plan |
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| whisky and is the cause of much deep breathing in
warehouses where whisky is stored.
"Whisky" or "Whiskey"
is the same product. The Irish and Americans have the
additional "e" in the way they spell their
product.
"It is true that it was known and acknowledged that
many were greatly injured by it, but none seemed to
think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but
from the abuse of a very good thing."
- Abraham Lincoln (Circa 1842)
"What America needs now is a drink"
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt announcing the repeal
of prohibition (Circa 1933)
"When I was younger I made it a rule never to take
a strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to
do so before breakfast.
- Sir Winston Churchill.
"Liquor - if you mean the demon drink that
poisons the mind, pollutes the body, desecrates family
life and inflames sinners, then I am against it.
BUT
If you mean the elixir of Christmas cheer, the shield
against winter chill, the taxable portion that puts
needed funds into the public coffers to comfort the
under privileged, then I am for it. "
- A congressman (U.S.A)
Proof :- in liquor distilling, a measure of the
absolute alcohol content of a distilled liquor, which is
a mixture of alcohol and water. The measurement is made
by determining the specific gravity of the liquor; that
is, the weight per unit volume of the liquid compared to
that of water. The measurement of the alcohol content is
expressed in terms that vary from country to country:
specific gravity, percentage by volume of alcohol,
percentage by weight of alcohol, percentage by volume of
proof spirit, or by gradations on an arbitrary scale.
The measurement is done at an index temperature, as
specific gravity varies with temperature.
In Great Britain, the Customs and Excise Act of 1952,
declared proof spirits (100 proof ) to be those in which
the weight of the spirits is 12/13 the weight of an
equal volume of distilled water at 51° F (11° C).
Thus, proof spirits are 48.24 percent alcohol by weight
or 57.06 percent by volume. Other spirits are designated
over or under proof, with the percentage of variance
noted. In the United States, a proof spirit (100 proof)
is one containing 50 percent alcohol by volume.
hooch [short for hoochinoo, a distilled liquor
made by the Hoochinoo (Hutsnuwu) Indians, a Tlingit
tribe] slang: alcoholic liquor esp. when inferior or
illicitly made or obtained
booze : intoxicating drink;
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RANGPO 737 132, SIKKIM, INDIA
Tel : 91-3592-240822/240834/240088/240099; Fax
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