What's the difference between bourbon and whiskey?

Bourbon


Definition:

  • (n.) A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.
  • (n.) A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The nonethanol congeners of bourbon have been found to possess estrogenic activity when tested using an in vivo oophorectomized rat bioassay, as well as an in vivo estrogen receptor assay system.
  • (2) Blood acetaldehyde concentrations ranged from 0.11 to 0.15 and from 0.04 to 0.08 milligrams per 100 milliliters when blood ethanol concentrations ranged from 1 to 400 milligrams per 100 milliliters after consumption of bourbon or grain ethanol, respectively.
  • (3) Serves 2 100ml bourbon or whisky 250ml soda water 2 lemon slices 2 sprigs of rosemary For the syrup (makes about 250ml) 225ml lemon juice (5-6 lemons) 120g sugar 4-6 sprigs of rosemary 1 Combine all the syrup ingredients in a medium saucepan, then heat until just boiling.
  • (4) Forty male undergraduates over 21 years of age were provoked following their ingestion of either 1.5 ounces (.045 1) or .5 ounces (.015 1) of 100 proof bourbon or vodka per 40 (18 kg) of body weight.
  • (5) This song was sung by Garibaldi when he kicked the Bourbons out of Sicily.
  • (6) Michele Telaro, field coordinator of the MSF rescue ship Bourbon Argos, said it had taken three hours to recover 11 bodies.
  • (7) Further Italian scenes will be shot at the royal palace of Caserta in Campania, a huge 18th-century site constructed for the Bourbon kings of Naples, reports said.
  • (8) Recipe supplied by Ross Clarke, Dirty Bones, dirty-bones.com Rosemary and lemonade bourbons This will make more syrup than you need, but it keeps well in the fridge, and the recipe is easily doubled.
  • (9) These findings, using three methodological approaches, demonstrate that bourbon contains at least one biologically active phytoestrogen and suggest that the effects of alcoholic beverage use or abuse, particularly as they relate to endocrine systems, should not be viewed as resulting solely from exposure to ethanol.
  • (10) Working together on a series of studio nudes, Proud Flesh (exhibited in the US last year), was, as she puts it, "a chance to spend quiet afternoons together: no phone, no kids, two fingers of bourbon, the smell of the ether, the two of us – still in love, still at work."
  • (11) He smoked his pipe avidly and drank a little Bourbon whisky daily.
  • (12) In that same period, from 2010-2014, worldwide whiskey sales climbed 2.7%, with sales of American-made bourbons and Tennessee whiskeys up an incredible 17%.
  • (13) The four shopping lists were identical except for the fifth product; i.e., Ss received a shopping list including either marijuana, beer, bourbon, or soft drinks.
  • (14) I'm aiming to end in Memphis via Indianapolis, somewhere in Kentucky (you decide, hint: I like whisky, or whiskey, or bourbon, I won't take you to task over which – until I've sampled it), and also Nashville .
  • (15) If you’re a whiskey drinker, your happy place is The Gladly, which has a worldly collection of more than 200 varieties of scotch, bourbon and rye.
  • (16) French revolutionaries, preferring Garibaldis to Bourbons, were not taken with Henri.
  • (17) These findings indicate that the congeners present in bourbon did not affect significantly the development of tolerance to ethanol in goldfish.
  • (18) At Whiskey Ward , a “no-frills tavern with big list of scotch, whiskey & bourbon” on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, I ask bartender Robinson Diaz about the most popular request on busy weekends.
  • (19) To evaluate this hypothesis directly, de-ethanolized bourbon was prepared and orally administered to a single postmenopausal woman.
  • (20) Of course, if you go to Bourbon Street in the French Quarter at night it's pretty raucous.

Whiskey


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Whisky, a liquor.
  • (n.) Alt. of Whisky
  • (n.) An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alice Wade, a 27-year-old self-professed whiskey aficionado, says she started drinking whiskey in college.
  • (2) Readers may recall the Burl Ives record about a poor, cold, tired hobo who sings about the fantastical land with "the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings …" Yup, that's where we're living now, although the chancellor might have ruled out "the lake of stew and of whiskey too", since whisky is up 36p a bottle, while stew tax remains unchanged.
  • (3) With the demand for Irish whiskey out there in the world this is a no-brainer.
  • (4) Among five alcoholic beverages (shochu, beer, sake, whiskey and wine), both sake and beer showed a dose-response relationship with the risk of adenomatous polyps although the association with beer was less striking.
  • (5) And despite the images of backroom deals and leather furniture that a snifter conjures up, whiskey is for everyone.
  • (6) Orange juice significantly reduced 65Zn absorption and milk also showed this tendency, but tea, whiskey, wine or beer had no significant effect on the absorption of 65Zn from the turkey meal.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Downtown Clifton motel, Tucson Among recent openings are Batch Café & Bar , which majors on the surprising pairing of whiskey and doughnuts; Carriage House , which offers dim sum brunches and cooking classes by chef Janos Wilder; Elviras , an upscale Mexican (with the border so close, Tucson’s food is multicultural), and Charro Steak , a ranch-to-table grill with a Sonoran twist.
  • (8) The Lochranza hotel overlooks the castle and loch and has a vast selection of malt whiskeys.
  • (9) • The Irish version suffered another blow in the 1920s when bootleggers labelled their illicit drink "Irish whiskey" • US soldiers who arrived in Britain and Northern Ireland when America entered the second world war in 1941 sampled the delights of Scotch and were cut off from consuming Irish whiskey as the Republic was neutral • The formerly state-owned Cooley Distillery near the border with Northern Ireland was soldin 2012 to American whiskey giant Jim Beam.
  • (10) But BAT wasn’t concerned by his record in banking, looking instead to his 22 years with Irish Distillers, during which time he was credited with turning Jameson whiskey into an internationally-recognised brand.
  • (11) All had tests of granulocyte, humoral, and cell-mediated immune function before and at the end of eight to 28 days' intake of approximately 0.75 liter of 100-proof whiskey per day.
  • (12) Cirrhotic patients were rarely nondrinkers but drank whiskey excessively.
  • (13) Owing to the small numbers of subjects drinking one beverage exclusively, it was necessary to classify drinkers as consumers of predominantly beer, wine, or hard liquor (i.e., more than 50% of their whiskey equivalents of alcohol derived from a specific beverage).
  • (14) Mailer responded at a Manhattan dinner party in 1977 by throwing a glass of whiskey in Vidal's face, head-butting him and then throwing a punch.
  • (15) Lead poisoning arising from "moonshine whiskey" drinking has been associated with a rise in plasma renin activity.
  • (16) In a bucolic corner of the County Kerry coastline, pub chain owner Oliver Hughes has opened one of a few independent whiskey distilleries in Ireland.
  • (17) Wine and whiskey are directly related to rectal cancer, but beer is the only alcoholic beverage that displays a statistically significant dose-response (P = 0.008).
  • (18) It was set in an office Christmas party and politely reminded women: “Four single whiskeys, and the risk of accident can be twice as great… If he’s been drinking, don’t let him drive.” Since then the number of deaths caused by drink-drive accidents has fallen from 1,640, when detailed reporting began in 1979, to 280 in 2012 (although there were 9,990 casualties resulting from 6,670 drink-drive accidents ).
  • (19) I didn't crack into the whiskey too much, but I think Maslow would agree that the quality and quantity of food on offer allowed me to push myself to think about bigger, meatier things than normal.
  • (20) Whiskey and sugar careening through my system, I defy the orders on my ticket not to photograph anything, and I tweet a picture of the bar menu.

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