Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.

A brewer's term for water which has the correct balance of minerals to produce beer of the required palate. It provides the liquid medium essential for the fermentation process. The bulk of beer is water the type and quality is essential to the flavour of the final beer.

An alcoholic beverage produced by distillation instead of fermentation.

Alcoholic beverage most often distilled, rather than fermented.

See SPIRITUOUS LIQUOR.

has historically referred to any alcohol beverage but today it generally refers only to distilled spirits.

The water used in making beer.

A distilled alcoholic beverage.

distilled alcohol, spirits