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Like Vodka, Always made from potatoes
Herbs and spices added after distillation (caraway, coriander, cinnamon, dill, lemon peel)
Great for bloody mary's
Tastes slighly more viscous and spicier than vodka |
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Brandy (otard cognac) and Benedictine
Tasts: sweet and spicy from benedictine (liquor made from 27 plants) and a touch of fruit and richness from cognac |
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A Spanish liquor made from 43 ingredients.
Tasts: Citrus, vanilla, fruit |
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| What should a customer know about Absinth |
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Anise flavored spirit with green anise and grand wormwood
High in Alcohol, usually well above 100pr, usually requires dillution and sugar
NO HALLUCINOGENIC EFFECTS, all exaggerated reports
Taste: Intense licorice and herbal flavors magnified by high alcohol |
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| Good replacements for absinth |
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| Sambuca, Ouzo, Herbsaint, Becherovka, Chartreuse, Pernod, Galliano. |
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| What is Irish Mist, are there any substitutes? |
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A liquer blend of honey, Irish Whiskey, and herbs.
Subs - Drabuie (honey, herbs, scotch), Glayva (Scotch, tangerines, honey, spices), Jack Daniels Honey Jack, Wild Turkey American Honey |
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Coffee liquer with crisp tangy coffee flavor, and silky smoothness
Lighter and dryer than kahlua |
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Italian brandy liqueur
Taste: Orange and vanilla, stronger vanilla |
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liqueur with deep violet color and floral flavor, tastes like violet candy (floral and sweet
Substitutes: Parfait d'amour or creme yvette, color is the same but flavor is more vanilla and citrus dominant |
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| What bsse vodkas should you recommend if someone wants a grain-free vodka |
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Potato - rich and creamy, high viscosity - Chopin, Monopolowa, Teton Clacier
Grape - Ciroc |
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| Rye vodka - spicy and peppery, belvedere and sobieski |
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| Mostly corn in the grain formula, 75% corn, 25% barley, distilled to high alcohol 190pr, then redistilled in presence of juniper berries and other botanicals |
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| what is genever and how does it differ from London dry gin |
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Distilled from fermented malt, then distilled again with juniper berries
Main difference: full bodied, not light, malty aroma and flavor. 2 varieties, jonge (young not barrel aged) and oude (old, aged in oak at least 1 yrs) Not for cocktails |
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| gin that's slightly sweeter than dry and slightly dryer than genever, they're usually sweetened with sugar post distillation |
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| How long have Blanco, Reposado, and Anejo tequilas spent in oak |
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Blanco/plata, spends no time in oak, bottled directly after distillation
Reposado - rested, 3-12months
Anejo - minimum of 1 yr but up to 3, ofton bourbon barrels like Jack |
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| Which tequila should you use in margaritas |
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| Blanco or reposado. Anejo aged and wood ofton fights citrusy flavors, and is more of a dessert or sipping drink |
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all tequila is mescal, but not all mescal is tequila, it is an agave distilled alcohol, but made from a wide variety of agave (smoky flavor).
tequila has to be made from the Weber blue agave |
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| Cognac and Armangac brandies designations for VS, VSOP and Xo mean |
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Gognac - Vs avg 5 yrs, VSOP avg 10yrs, XO avg 20yrs
Armagnac - VS 2, VSOP 5, XO 6
bottom line, the same designation on Cognac and Armaagnac means the cognac is older |
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| Difference in taste between Cognac and Armagnac |
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Cognac - vanilla, prune, caramel, apricot, orange, floral, tobacco, toast, cedar
Armagnac - fruiter and more viscous |
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| Pisco (what's it similar to) |
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| Pomace brandy from Peru or Chile, similiar to grappa, made from distilling seeds, stems, skins left over from winemaking |
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| Brazilian rum made from unrefined sugar-cane juice. Juice is fermented 3 weeks in wood before being boiled to a concentrate and then distilled |
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| How is Single Malt Scotch different from blended Scotch? |
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Single malt - made from water and barley at a single distillery
Blended - blend of at least 2 single malt whiskies and 1 or more single grain scotch whiskies. Blends constitute 90% of all scottish whiskies |
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| Name 4 Major regional distinctions of single malt scotch and give general taste profiles with an example of each |
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Speyside: Highlands sub-region, rich, complex, fruity, lots of cereal and whiskey sweetness ex Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, Macallan
Highlands - Heather, spice, rich, fruity ex Oban, Dalwhinnie, Clynelish
Lowlands - Lighter, fresh cut hay, grass, citrus, heather ex Glenkinchi, Auchentoshan
Islands: often smokey and peaty ex Lagavulin, Springbank, Ledaig, Highland Park, Arran, Jura |
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| Difference between Bourbon and Whiskey |
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Bourbons are whiskeys, though not all whiskeys are bourbons
Bourbons must be Made in USA, made from mashbill with at least 51% corn, the balance is rye or wheat and barley, made with no additives, and aged in new American white oak barrels |
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| Kahn's Hand Selected Bourbons |
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| We go down to the distillery, taste barreles, blind vote on favorites, and buy the barrel with the most votes |
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| Kahn's hand selected bourbons |
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| Eagle Rare 10yr, Rock Hill Farms, Elmer T Lee, Evan Williams Single Barrel, Four Roses Cask Strength Single REcipies, 1792 Ridgemont Reserve, Blantons, Buffalo Trace, Weller Antique |
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What makes our hand selected 1792 Ridgemont Reserve, Buffalo Trace, and
Weller Antique way different |
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| The normal versions of these are not destined to become single barrel, they are small batch. When we pick these out we are creating a Kahn's exclusive product |
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| Most Bourbons are rye, meaning that the "small grain" is rye, although sometimes it's wheat with the corn and barley. Name some examples |
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| Weller, Fitzgerald, REbel yell, Makers Mark, Van Winkle |
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| How do wheated bourbons tasted different from rye |
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Wheat is sweet, rye is spicy
Wheat lets the oak shine through with more vanilla, butterscotch, and fruity sweetness
Rye is spicy, peppery, and woodsy |
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| What makes Tennesee whiskey |
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| bourbon filtered through sugar maple cured charcoal before being barreled |
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| Difference between Jack Daniels green label and Black |
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| Jack is professionally tasted, un"worthy" batches of the black label are labeled green. |
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| what gives irish whiskey it's taste |
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| addition of unmalted barley gives Irish Whiskey a soft smooth taste of leather and linseed oil |
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| Angostura, Peychauds, Regans, Collins, Bitterman's |
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