There are different aging systems and categorizations for different kinds of brandy.
They make the spirit from grapes rather just neutral alcohol, so it's really a kind of flavoured brandy and is drunk diluted throughout a meal.
But when we take our first sips, we realize it is actually Slivovice, a kind of fiery plum brandy.
The old way -- the tradition -- is a mix of eggs, cream, milk, sugar and some kind of alcohol, usually brandy, rum or bourbon.
Normally, you'd drink brandy, and this beer kind of has the look of brandy — it's a reddish-brown color, but it won't hurt you as much.
The thing I admire most about this dessert, though, is that the maraschino cherry on top hasn't been upgraded into some kind of sour cherry macerated in brandy, which is what a modern bartender would do.
It was kind of fluid Courtney Love mixed with Brandy.
The questionnaire contained queries on the intake of alcoholic beverages popular in Japan, including sake (rice wine), shochu (a type of brandy), beer, light beer, wine, and other kinds of alcohol drinks (e.g., whiskey, brandy, gin, vodka, cocktails, rum).
Still, the reticence of this very hidebound region forbade any kind of official acknowledgement of the white brandy — until the cocktail renaissance came to roost, that is.
