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  2. Alcohol and weight - Wikipedia

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    Findings are inconclusive because alcohol itself contains seven calories per gram, but research suggests that the body only extracts 70-80 percent of this due to thermogenesis, thus the approximate number of calories that can be utilized is between 5 and 6 calories per gram of alcohol.

  3. Standard drink - Wikipedia

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    1.5 oz (43 mL) shot of 40% hard liquor (vodka, rum, whisky, gin etc.) 5 oz (142 mL) glass of 12% wine. ... the number of units of alcohol in a beverage can instead be ...

  4. Whisky - Wikipedia

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    The word whisky (or whiskey) is an anglicisation of the Classical Gaelic word uisce (or uisge) meaning "water" (now written as uisce in Modern Irish, and uisge in Scottish Gaelic). This Gaelic word shares its ultimate origins with Germanic water and Slavic voda of the same meaning. Distilled alcohol was known in Latin as aqua vitae ("water of ...

  5. How Much Alcohol Is Safe to Drink Without Putting Your Health ...

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    You can usually hit that level by drinking 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1.5 ounces of hard liquor such as whiskey, vodka, rum, or gin. For adult males, an episode of binge drinking is ...

  6. Alcoholic beverage - Wikipedia

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    The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government.

  7. Evan Williams (bourbon) - Wikipedia

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    Evan Williams is a brand of Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey bottled in Bardstown, Kentucky, [2] [3] by the Heaven Hill company. [4] [5] The product is aged for a minimum of four years [5] (which is more than the two year minimum to be called 'straight' bourbon, but is the minimum requirement for a straight whiskey that does not have an age statement on the label). [6]