MM Speakeasy (The Spirits Thread)

[CaptainHenreh]

You know, sometimes I just like pouring a full glass of whiskey... Something wrong with that?

(Waits for comments on calling "whiskey bourbon" "whiskey"; it's the same fuggin thing.)

Whisky.  Not whiskey.

And bourbon is made from corn (51% or more).  Whisky is made from grain.  Not the same.

BROADLY, If they country it's from has a "e" in it, it's Whiskey. Ireland, America, Kentucky. If it doesn't have an E in the name, it's whisky. Scotland, Japan, Canada, Australia. (Again, broadly. Czech Republic and Sweden both make...whisky.)

Bourbon absolutely is a whiskey seeing as Maize is a grain*, it is a variety of whiskey of which there are many. Scotch is also a whisky, and naturally Irish Whiskey is whiskey and Rye is whiskey and there's loads of flavors all over the place. Being a pedant is fun. But it doesn't matter because you can't hear the "e" when you say it.


(*not to say all grain alcohol is whisky, plenty of Vodka is made from wheat, corn, and rye; that doesn't make it whiskey.)