whiskey

     

Whisky (Scottish Gaelic: uisge-beatha), or whiskey (Irish: uisce beatha or fuisce), refers to a broa category of alcoholic beverages that are distilled from fermented grain mash and aged in wooden casks (generally oak).

Trivia about whiskey

  • The tax on this was the subject of a 1794 "Rebellion" & an 1875 "Ring" scandal
  • Its name is from Gaelic for "water of life"
  • The Scotch variety is seldom spelled with an "E"
  • In March, Congress passed an excise tax on this, provoking a rebellion in 1794
  • The Canadian type of this distilled liquor is always blended
  • An order for malt in Scotland in 1494 is the earliest reference to this liquor that now comes from many lands
  • It's the potent potable found in Irish Coffee
  • ...In a boilermaker, along with beer (rye works fine)
  • In a Manhattan cocktail, it's combined with vermouth
  • A traditional boilermaker is beer & an ounce of this
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew uncorks a bottle in a replica distillery in Mount Vernon, VA.) One of Washington's most successful endeavors was Mount Vernon's distillery, the largest in America at the time, which produced this potent potable
  • In cockney rhyming slang, this liquor is a "gay & frisky"
  • For the Sons of the Pioneers, it came between "cigareetes" & "wild, wild women"
  • This word for a type of liquor applies to a 1794 American rebellion
  • One cover story in the magazine devoted to & named for this liquor was "The Birth of Blending"
  • Give me this word for "W" & don't be stingy, baby
  • Its name is from the Gaelic for "water of life"