Alcohol Dictionary – Sundance Distilling Tasting Room located 980 SW 6th St.

Angels Share: An amount of alcohol that evaporates from the casks while alcohol is aging. This can be 2% per year but can be higher in hotter areas.
Bootlegging: To make, transport, or sell liquor illegally, or without registration or payment of taxes.
Bootleg Origin: 1625-1635 Practice of hiding a liquor bottle in the leg of ones boot.
Booze: Any alcoholic beverage
Booze Hag: Woman who drinks to excess
Brandy: A spirit distilled from wine or from the fermented juice of grapes, apples, peaches, plums Ect,
Cask Strength: Whiskey that comes straight from the barrel. No water is added, making it pretty potent.
Cordial: A strong sweetened aromatic alcoholic liquor.
Distillation: Process of separating mash from the liquid, by using selective boiling and condensation.
Distillery: A place where distilling of liquor is done.
Fire Water: Alcoholic Drink Liquor.
Hooch: Alcohol liquor illicitly distilled and distributed.
Liqueur: Any class of alcohol, usually strong, sweet and highly flavored.
Mash: Liquid composed of crushed malt or grain stirred with boiling water to create worts.
Malt Whiskey: Distilled from a fermented mash or sugar, which comes from a malt grain, usually barley but could also by rye.
Moonshine: Unaged Whiskey, also a Slang term for high proof distilled spirits. Usually produced secretly out in the woods without government authorization produced legally now in small distilleries all over the USA.
New American Oak: Most USA whiskey is aged in New American Oak Barrels. Barrels are usually charred. They have to be fully charred to be a true legal bourbon.
Peat: Sourced from Scotland and found in whisky scotch. Provides an intense smokey flavor.
Port: Any class of very sweet wines, mostly dark red originally from Portugal.
Proof: Measurement of the content of alcohol in alcoholic beverages. ABV is a standard of measure of how much alcohol is contained in a given volume of an alcoholic beverage.
Rotgut: Cheap and inferior liquor
Rum: Alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other sugar cane product.
Rum Rebellion: Deposition of Governor William Bligh in 1808 by officers of the New South Wales Corps. caused by his interference in their trading activities, especially in the trafficking of rum.
Rum Shop: A tavern or shop selling liquor
Vodka: Unaged, colorless distilled spirit, originally made in Russia.
Wash: Liquid that contains alcohol and is used to distill whiskey.
Whiskey: Distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash. Various grains are used for different whiskey including barley, corn, rye, and wheat.
Whiskey: Means “Water of Life”
Whiskey: Whiskey with an E is made in the USA. Without the E it is Scotch so it would be spelled whisky.
Worts: Liquid that drains from the mash and is fermented in the wash.