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What's the difference between wine and brandy? Cider and Calvados?

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It is alleged that Chris Sprague claimed:

There is a bigger difference between whiskey and beer than between brandy and wine. Simply speaking (I know it's more complicated than this), whiskey is a fermented and distilled grain alcohol and beer is a brewed grain alcohol, while wine is a fermented berry alcohol and brandy is distilled wine.

Fundamentally, whiskey is distilled beer. The biggest difference is that whiskey brews do not contain hops, but neither did beer until a few hundred years ago. If you distill any beer, you will end up with whiskey, but not the kinds you'd normally buy in a store.

- Chris Sprague

Not really.

Beer is fermented as well. The brewing is not what turns it to alcohol. Beer --> whiskey and wine --> brandy is pretty much the same process: distillation of a fermented beverage.

Now, there are a couple key difference between the wine/brandy and beer/whiskey analogy: whiskey often has a different grain bill than beer (for instance, bourbon is at least 51 percent corn, with the remainder any mix of wheat, rye and barley, whereas beer is in most cases overwhelmingly barley), and the ferment for whiskey does not include hops, unlike all but a few examples of beers today. There is not the variation in the constituents of wine v. brandy like there is beer v. whiskey.

-Steve

Yes, but...there are a few whiskey makers who DO add a small amount of hops. Not for flavor, but they're in there. Pedantic, sorry, but there you are. Otherwise, hell yes, beer is to whiskey as wine is to brandy.

Why do they add hops? I'm curious.

No one's quite sure. The hops actually go in the yeast starter. They're very secretive, and very traditional. They don't ever want to mess with the whiskey. They take it too far sometimes, IMO, but the whiskey sure is good.

Well, I'll be damned. Had no idea. Which ones?

-Steve

Oh, hell, I don't recall. It was an article in Malt Advocate way back, maybe

9 years ago. Gary Regan wrote it, but I can't remember which ones do. I'll see if I can dig it up.

I don't know if this is the case for whiskey, but the usage of hop in beer have two goals :

-flavour.

-antiseptic.

The antiseptic character of hop helps fighting against infections that kills the yeast cells. Also in beer sometimes you don't use hop for the flavour, but for the antiseptic effect.

For example, lambik (beer of spontaneous fermentation mainly brewed in neighbourhood of Brussels in Belgium) uses hop for the antiseptic effect. The hop is used long time after it has been plukked to loose the bitterness.

Can it be those Whiskey makers brew their beer with old h> >Yes, but...there are a few whiskey makers who DO add a small amount of hops.