{"id":50914,"date":"2015-05-11T08:41:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/11\/on-whiskeys.html"},"modified":"2015-05-13T06:03:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T12:03:10","slug":"on-whiskeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/11\/on-whiskeys.html","title":{"rendered":"On whiskeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word itself comes from Gaelic sources &#8212; uisge beatha in Irish (&quot;water of life,&quot; most likely a borrowing from the similar label <i>aqua vitae<\/i> in Latin).  But what are the differences between the various whisky\/whiskey spirits out there?<\/p>\n<p>(This one&#39;s for <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103328827291075446110\" oid=\"103328827291075446110\">Margie Kleerup<\/a><\/span>, since I&#39;m not much of a whiskey fan in any of its varieties, at least not without various additional ingredients.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/30278\/what%E2%80%99s-difference-between-scotch-whiskey-and-bourbon'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/L1zKmTcDMb_FBbSwf2P_h_T7lbC_mo0-o6Z-bTzHdctSK30kAFZ5AEfLtbZ_69rY8iXsdwWb5MuTFUjxNlpFP8sGXDYYaJPfGXE7fX1f65dSYEsbLL7i-nSgYA2WcUs=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/30278\/what%E2%80%99s-difference-between-scotch-whiskey-and-bourbon'>What&rsquo;s the Difference Between Scotch, Whiskey and Bourbon?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThis might be common knowledge for some, but not for many, including my wife (who got into Harvard, btw ;-), so I thought it was worth a refresher. Let&#8217;s start with a burning question we answered back in 2008: what makes a whiskey bourbon?<\/p>\n<p>The law. While knocking back a dram of bourbon is a decidedly carefree exercise, making it is exceedingly technical and requires that the whiskey meet a rigid set of criteria. The Federal Standards of Identi&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/UJAe8fFqYp4'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word itself comes from Gaelic sources &#8212; uisge beatha in Irish (&quot;water of life,&quot; most likely a borrowing from the similar label aqua vitae in Latin). But what are the differences between the various whisky\/whiskey spirits out there? (This one&#39;s for +Margie Kleerup, since I&#39;m not much of a whiskey fan in any of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/11\/on-whiskeys.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On whiskeys&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-food-drink-wine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6667,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/05\/and_so_it_begin.html","url_meta":{"origin":50914,"position":0},"title":"And so it begins &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Aug-04 9:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The siding folks called the other evening and let us know they would be coming by to drop off their dumpster and maybe get a little work done on Friday,...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Home Improvement&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Home Improvement","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/home-improvement"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20274,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/20\/unblogged-bits-sun-20-feb-11-1030.html","url_meta":{"origin":50914,"position":1},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 20-Feb-11 1030)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 20-Feb-11 10:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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Just don't enjoy it. \u00a0I'll tolerate Irish or Canadian, or a very, very pale Scotch.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Food &amp; Drink&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Food &amp; Drink","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/food-drink"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/gins.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/gins.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/gins.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51057,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50914\/revisions\/51057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}