Month: January 2025
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Le Ben du Nevis
Cheeky me brought some Ben Nevis samples for my three-week trip to Paris. Can’t count on the Parisians to offer a anything other than fermented grape juice for a reasonable price. What to mention about this distillery that I didn’t already? Maybe that around 1/3 of Ben Nevis’s new-make spirit is shipped to Japan to…
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100th post / 100 proof
Historically in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, a spirit that was just at the threshold of being able to be set ablaze was defined as 100 proof, although the alcohol strength to which this threshold corresponds depends a lot on temperature. Less variable, though not precisely reproducible, is the strength of spirit that gunpowder can…
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