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Kirsch is an unsweetened fruit brandy distilled from a mash of cherries.

I must say that when I heated some sake on the stove recently, to check that it was as horrible as I remembered, it took all the deposit off the lining of the saucepan.

I can't help thinking that the Canadians are a great crowd, but are perhaps the only people who could have produced a boring whisky.

One infallible mark of your true drink man is that he reads everything on the subject that comes his way, from full-dress books to those tiny leaflets the makers tend to hang around the necks of their bottles.

I have always understood the pop and popular music came to the pubs because the brewers hoped thereby to reverse the falling-off in the recruitment of younger patrons noticeable in the post-war period.