Aperitif
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French –“ Appertizer”. A short, usually bitter
drink of aromatic fortified wine serves before meals to whet the appetite.
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Examples are:
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Campari – Italy. Slightly bitter taste
leaving a clear palate and fine appetite.
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Cinzano – Italian Vermouth. An aromatic
white wine flavoured with herbs, roots, berries and seeds.
Cinzano Rosso: Italian sweet
vermouth. * Rosso means red in Italian.
Cinzano Bianco: Sweetest of the
vermouth made in Italy. * Bianco means white in Italian.
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Pernod – An unsweetened aniseed flavoured
liqueur / spirit.
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Dubonet – French. Contains quinine
(tonic) and bitter bark. Comes in red/ blond/ white. The blond being lighter
and dried than the red.
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Fernet Branca – Italian.
Gin
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Gin is from the distillation of grain, barley or
maize with the additional of juniper berries for flavor.
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Examples are:
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Beefeater
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Bombay Sapphire
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Gordon’s
Vodka
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A neutral spirit distilled from grain (seldom
from potatoes as commonly thought) which is filtered through activated carbon
to remove any taste of the spirits. Colorless, no aroma or taste no flavoured.
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Examples are:
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Smirnoff
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Stolichnaya
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Absolut blue / Citron / Kurant / Peppar
Rum
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Distilled from the fermented of sugar cane juice
and sugar cane molasses.
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Dark Rum often has caramel added color.
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Examples are:
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Bacardi – Light Rum
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Myer’s – Dark Rum
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Captain Morgan – Dark Rum
Tequila
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Mexican liquor, principally made from a cactus
plant called Mescal, a special variety grown in the state of Jalisco.
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They are labeled in two varieties – white and
gold labels. The white label is
colorless and the gold label is light amber as a result of aging in oak barrel.
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Examples are:
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Camino Gold
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Mariachi
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Jose Cuervo
Cognac
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French. Brandy distilled from grapes grown in
the Charente district (principal city: Cognac).
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Strictly controlled by law, only brandy from
this defined area may be called Cognac. Thus, all Cognacs are brandy Cognac –
nor is all brandy produced within the Cognac district call Cognac.
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Cognac takes on color from the tannic acid of
the oak casks in which it matures (the longer the better).
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Grading and Terminology:
*** : 3 stars, aged for 3 years
VSOP : Very Superior Old Pale, aged for 6 years
XO :
Extra Old, blend of cognacs between 20 – 130 years
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Examples are:
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Matell Cordon Bleu
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Remy Martin
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Hennessy
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Remy Martin Louis XIII
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Otard
Armagnac
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French. A good brandy from thee Gascony province
that cannot be called Cognac because of where it is produced.
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Grapes used similar to Cognac and made the same
way as Cognac, except it is aged in Gascony oak cask.
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Grading : Stars, VS, VSOP, XO
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Example are:
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Samalens
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Calvados
Whisky
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Distilled from a fermented mash of grain,
usually corn, rye, barley or wheat and placed in oak barrels to age. At that
time, it is colorless; it is during the ageing process that whiskey obtains its
characteristic amber color, flavor and aroma.
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Types of Whisky
1)
Scotch Whisky – is made predominantly of barley
grain. Its smoky flavor comes from the peat fires to which the green barley
malt has exposed.
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Examples are:
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Chivas Regal
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Cutty Sark
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J&B
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Johnnie Walker Black
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Dewar’s White Label
2)
Irish Whisky – is made predominantly of barley
grain, but unlike Scotch, it is not exposed to burning peat, and so does not
have the smoky flavor of scotch.
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Examples are:
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John Jameson
3)
Canadian Whisky – is a blended Whisky made from
rye, corn, barley and blended with neutral grain spirits. It is light in flavor
and predominantly corn grain blended whisky.
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Examples are:
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Canadian Club
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Seagrams V.O.
4)
American Whisky / Bourbon Whisky – is made of
several grains most predominantly of corn, about 60%, the balance is rye and
barley.
Liqueur
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They are used interchangeably to designate the
sweetened, flavored alcoholic drinks made by the additional of fruits, herbs,
seeds and sugar.
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Examples are:
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Amaretto :
Italy : Brandy, Almond and
herds
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Baileys :
Ireland : Creamy Irish Whisky,
flavoured with chocolate.
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Cointreau :
France : Brandy, Orange peel.
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Grand Marnier :
France : Brandy, orange curacao.
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Kahlua :
Mexican : Brandy, coffee beans.
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Sambuca :
Italy : Whisky, aninese and
herbs.
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Tia Maria :
West Indies : Jamaica Rum, coffee
extracts and spices.
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Frangelico :
Italy : Brandy, halzenut
flavour.
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Drambuie :
Scotland : Whisky, honey, herbs & spices
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Midori : Japan : Whisky, melon
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Benedictine :
France : Brandy, herbs &
spices
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Southern Comfort :
America : Whisky, orange flavoured
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Malibu :
Jamaica : Rum, coconut flavoured
Beer
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Beer are brewed and fermented from malted barley
and cereal grains flavoured with hops.
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Components of Beer.
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Cereals – barely is most common, those
chosen for brewing of beer are those with low protein. (High protein causes
cloudiness).
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Water – Beer contains 85% and above of
water. Types of water used will have a great deal to do with the beer quality.
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Hops – to give the bitter flavour and
aroma it imparts, act us preservative giving beer longer life.
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Yeast – yeast must be carefully cultured
and must be pure, a change in yeast will result a different character of beer.
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Sugar – the sugar used in the making of
beer is cane sugar.
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Examples are:
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Anchor – Malaysia
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Beck’s – Germany
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Carlsberg – Denmark
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Kirin – Japan
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Saporro – Japan
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Heineken – Holland
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Tiger – Singapore
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Foster’s – Australia
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San Miguel – Philippines
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Budweiser – USA
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Corona Extra – Mexico
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Guinness Stout – Ireland * Dark, very
malty, and rather bitter, stout has roasted barley added to it for color and
flavor.
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