What's the difference between cider and whisky?

Cider


Definition:

  • (n.) The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
  • (2) The impressive choice of drinks ranges from local cider to unusual rosés from Navarra and punchy Toro and Bierzo reds, all selected by charming Nubia, wife of Juan Mari.
  • (3) In the UK, alcohol consumption has shifted substantially from moderate strength beer sold in pubs to strong lager, cider, wine and spirits sold by supermarkets for drinking at home.
  • (4) Three ways with cider vinegar • Winter salad dressing Boil two shallots with a few juniper berries and thyme leaves, then reduce 150ml cider vinegar by half and mix with the above.
  • (5) Test with 2 yeasts used in English commercial cider making confirmed that patulin is effectively removed during yeast fermentation.
  • (6) The cider group had the lowest liver Fe values and the ethanol group the highest values.
  • (7) Pour in the cider, scraping up any caramelised pork stuck to the bottom of the pan, and bubble and reduce by about half.
  • (8) Data provided by the research company Assosia, covering promotions between December and February this year, shows Tesco and Sainsbury's offered two-for-£20 deals on 20-pack crates of Strongbow cider – a sale of more than 93 units of alcohol, working out at just 21p per unit.
  • (9) Across eight cask pumps, seven keg lines and three hand-pulled ciders, the Rook runs the gamut from exotic European imports (Opat's self-explanatory orange and mandarin Czech pils) to beers from lesser-spotted UK micros, such as Grafters and Jurassic Brewhouse.
  • (10) Cenci takes a sip of her half of cider and then says something that may chime with Britain's remaining party faithful, dutifully knocking on doors and soaking up people's complaints about bins and bus lanes, while their leaders pay them far too little attention: "I wouldn't call them elites," she says.
  • (11) For the dressing 1 tbsp cider or white-wine vinegar 3 tbsp olive oil Flaky sea salt and freshly ground black pepper For the salad A couple of handfuls rocket leaves 80g semi-soft blue cheese 6 dates, pitted and sliced 50g hazelnuts, toasted and roughly chopped Whisk together the vinegar and oil until you have a creamy emulsion, then pour a tablespoon into the bottom of a bowl.
  • (12) In response, Samuel Adams started producing Angry Orchard , which became the country's top-selling cider only eight months after it launched, and a hard iced tea called Twisted Tea.
  • (13) So raise a glass of Somerset cider – sweeter after the golden harvest of 2016 than it has been for a decade – to toast hope, and action.
  • (14) Pour a large glass of this into your container and store the rest of the bottle, unless you're making cider vinegar, in which case you should probably sacrifice the lot.
  • (15) The affinity of patulin for sulfur dioxide (SO2) is much less than was previously reported and is of little significance at the SO2 concentrations (below 200 ppm) used in the processing of apple juice and cider.
  • (16) A total of 152 test samples were analyzed; EC levels ranged from none found to 3 ppb in 15 cheeses, 6 teas, 12 yogurts, and 8 ciders; from none found to 13 ppb in 30 breads and 69 malt beverages; and from none found to 84 ppb in 12 soy sauces.
  • (17) The John Hewitt carries beers from Lisburn's Hilden Brewery, Ireland's oldest independent (from £3.30 a pint) – its eponymous bitter is a moderately tasty, pleasantly hoppy amber session beer – and will host the Great Northern Irish Beer & Cider Festival , from 4 July to Saturday 9.
  • (18) 3 tbsp cider vinegar 5 black or green peppercorns 1 small bay leaf ½ shallot, peeled and finely chopped 1 sprig tarragon, plus 1 tsp chopped tarragon leaves 1 sprig chervil, plus 1 tsp chopped chervil (optional) 2 good steaks 150g unsalted butter 1 large egg yolk Salt and freshly ground black pepper Put the vinegar, peppercorns, bay leaf, shallot, tarragon sprig and chervil sprig, if using, in a small pan and bring to a boil.
  • (19) If you thin by adding a little soy sauce, honey or cider vinegar, until it’s the consistency of a salad dressing, you can use it to give body to any bowl of greens.
  • (20) Heineken’s beer and cider brands include Amstel, Foster’s, Birra Moretti, Kronenbourg 1664, Sagres, Bulmers and Strongbow.

Whisky


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Whiskey
  • (n.) A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim-whiskey.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Given its timing, he wrote, the book "can't help being about the war", but then whisky had always been "up to its pretty bottle neck" in politics.
  • (2) Johnson no doubt also sampled the local whisky – he described the place much more favourably than most others they stayed at during their Hebridean tour.
  • (3) They don’t have to wait three or four years for what may or may not be the marginal difference they make to the whisky product.” Miller’s gin now sells more than all his whisky products put together, making up 80% of total sales.
  • (4) Between 2008 and 2013, the average annual growth in sales of whisky by UK manufacturers was 6% but there was a drop of 1.6% in 2014.
  • (5) 3.22pm BST Mr Burnham’s suggestion is a worthy addition to all the rest – the mobile phone charges, the annexation of Faslane, embassies refusing to hold whisky receptions!
  • (6) However, City sources said that SABMiller is likely to launch a fierce defence against a deal and could instead look to combine with Diageo , the British owner of Guinness and Johnnie Walker whisky.
  • (7) Absurdly, the shops lack local staples – sugar, milk, flour – but are well stocked with subsidised imports such as single-malt whisky and Italian panettone.
  • (8) The future James I resorted to them on several occasions in Scotland: in 1600, for instance, he had two alleged assassins pickled in whisky, vinegar and allspice, put on trial, and then mutilated.
  • (9) Its infamous clubs – The Viper Room, Whisky A Go Go – are the backdrops for a thousand rock memoirs; its vertiginous hills contain more celebrity homes per square mile than anywhere else in the world.
  • (10) Hitting the slopes here isn’t so much an outing as it is a full-on expedition, albeit one fuelled by hot chocolate and whisky toddies at the bottom of every run.
  • (11) The mutagenicity of black tea but not that of whisky was suppressed by catalase.
  • (12) Drinks that are mostly ethanol, such as gin and vodka, give fewer hangovers (but not none) than those full of congeners, such as red wine or whisky.
  • (13) Using the whole body counter technique, they show that iron absorption is lowered significantly by addition to the test dose of either normal or dealcoholized whisky, but that there is no difference between these two latter groups.
  • (14) 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.
  • (15) One unit is 10ml of pure alcohol, equivalent to a measure of whisky, just over a third of a pint of beer or half a glass of wine.
  • (16) His film, The Angels' Share, a larky whisky heist, was screened with English as well as French subtitles at the festival, lest the Glaswegian accents prove a barrier for non-Scots.
  • (17) After all, it was Neuberger who chose not to follow his fellow law lords into the supreme court when it was created three years ago, telling me in a much-quoted BBC interview that the court had been created "as a result of what appears to have been a last-minute decision over a glass of whisky".
  • (18) Just down the road is the Talisker Whisky Distillery, while if you fancy a dram and a tune, the inn in Carbost has regular live music.
  • (19) According to the drinks and retail industry-funded website, drinkaware.co.uk , one unit of alcohol equates to approximately one shot of whisky, a third of a pint of beer or half of a standard 175ml glass of wine.
  • (20) said the dustman, scooping up discarded election posters, wine and whisky bottles, beer cans and other rubbish.