(n.) The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on.
(n.) The act of distilling spirits.
Example Sentences:
(1) They detail the history of the distillery and reveal (bar a few trade secrets of course) how Talisker is made.
(2) The distillery sold more than one million cases of Glenfiddich, but Trump continued: "Glenfiddich should be ashamed of themselves for granting this award to Forbes, just for the sake of publicity.
(3) Both the Arran Malt independent distillery and the Arran Brewery run tours.
(4) 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.
(5) • 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.
(6) Gin sales in the UK are expected to top £1bn for the first time this year as younger drinkers supplement their taste for vodka with a double shot from a new generation of artisanal distilleries.
(7) The British gin industry had a record-breaking year in 2015 after 49 new distilleries opened their doors and and consumers spent nearly £1bn on their favourite tipple.
(8) The windfarm was opposed by the Cairngorms National Park Authority and a coalition of local businesses, including two whisky distilleries, William Grant & Sons and Glenfarclas , as well as Walkers , the shortbread makers.
(9) In 2010, there were only 116 distilleries in the UK, according to HM Revenue & Customs, but about 100 have opened in the past two years alone.
(10) Its successful sale by then owner John Teeling has prompted renewed interest and venture capitalist investment in new small distilleries across the Republic.
(11) 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.
(12) It is also opening a whisky and vodka distillery on the same site, and building a major new production facility in the US – its biggest export market, where Watt and Dickie are the stars of an extreme-brewing reality show called Brew Dogs, which follows the pair around America as they visit craft breweries and make beer using outlandish ingredients ranging from a lobster to the world’s hottest chilli.
(13) In a famously delicious irony, they include Moore County, Tennessee, the home of the Jack Daniel's distillery, although visitors are allowed to buy a "commemorative" bottle.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Old Jameson whiskey distillery.
(15) The supplementary diet which consisted largely of a distillery by-product, malt culms, was submitted for mycological examination and fed to two housed lambs.
(16) It also produces upmarket gin and vodka at a distillery opened in 2010 to tap people willing to pay more for distinctive spirits.
(17) Among workers in the tar distillery the rate for lung cancer was higher than expected.
(18) On top of the whiskey, the Dingle Distillery is already producing its own branded vodka and gin.
(19) An American friend has already sent me a few suggestions regarding the places I might visit, including whiskey distilleries , Lower Broadway in Nashville , Graceland , the John Dillinger museum , the home of the Louisville Slugger baseball bat , demolition derbies , some other things.
(20) The vector, Culex quinquefasciatus (Say), breeds mostly in and around numerous rum distilleries, located exclusively around the periphery of the city, and this undoubtedly accounts for the higher prevalence and intensity of infection among suburban dwellers.
Spirit
Definition:
(n.) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
(n.) A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.
(n.) Life, or living substance, considered independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter.
(n.) The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material.
(n.) Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body.
(n.) Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf.
(n.) Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc.
(n.) One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper; as, a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit.
(n.) Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; -- often in the plural; as, to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be downhearted, or in bad spirits.
(n.) Intent; real meaning; -- opposed to the letter, or to formal statement; also, characteristic quality, especially such as is derived from the individual genius or the personal character; as, the spirit of an enterprise, of a document, or the like.
(n.) Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities.
(n.) Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine): -- often in the plural.
(n.) Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.
(n.) A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture.
(n.) Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
(n.) Stannic chloride. See under Stannic.
(v. t.) To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; -- sometimes followed by up.
(v. t.) To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; -- often with away, or off.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
(2) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
(3) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
(4) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
(5) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(6) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
(7) United have a fantastic spirit, we don't have the same spirit.
(8) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.
(9) Meeting the families shows how well-adjusted they are, their spirit and determination and the way they have acted is an absolute credit to themselves."
(10) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
(11) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
(12) Per adult (greater than or equal to 15 years) consumption of beer, wine, spirits and absolute alcohol for a 14-year period (1971--1984) was related to female breast cancer morbidity rates in Western Australia.
(13) At the front of the march was Lee Cheuk-yan, a former lawmaker of 20 years, carrying a banner calling for Liu’s spirit to inspire people.
(14) The country goes to the polls on Thursday in what observers see as its most spirited presidential race.
(15) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
(16) This suggests that a surgical scrub should be used more widely in clinical practice, and that a spirit-based hand lotion might with advantage become a partial substitute for handwashing, particularly in areas where handwashing is frequent and iatrogenic coagulase-negative staphylococcal infection common.
(17) Horrocks plans to summon the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to make his case: “The [1970] Conservative government came in with a manifesto commitment to kill the Open University, to kill Harold Wilson’s brainchild at birth.
(18) And yet, the spirit of '68 endures, perhaps mythical, perhaps as a lingering sense of the possibilities that mass activism once had.
(19) In our time of rapidly changing life styles it is useful to understand that voices also mirror the spirit of an era.
(20) An increasing incidence of methylated spirit burns in barbecue users is documented in a three year retrospective survey.