What's the highest-proof whiskey you've got here?
Half an ounce, the amount contained in one ounce of hundred-proof whiskey, will yield about a hundred calories.
That is the equivalent of one ounce of hundred-proof whiskey, or somewhat less than the amount contained in an ordinary highball.
During the second half of the nineteenth century, when the popularity of the Nicanderian treatment reached its apogee, the standard neutralizing dose was reckoned by most American physicians at a quart of hundred-proof whiskey, to he downed within ten or twelve hours But, as might be supposed, severe exposures called for less deliberate measures.
This appears to be a very conservative position, as one of the in vitro conditions (40% alcohol) suggests a real-life situation where one would consume the formulated product with a glass of alcohol equivalent to 80-proof whiskey.
For a 120-proof whiskey (that's what my sample comes in at, anyway), this goes down ridiculously easy.
For instance, a shot of 86-proof whiskey contains 105 calories and a shot of 80-proof vodka contains 97.
We distill 100-proof whiskey, then sell it to distributors who add flavors and cut down the strength," he says.
Tullamore D.E.W.'s limited-edition Phoenix is aptly named: The potent 110-proof whiskey has all the power of a mythicial flaming creature rising from ashes.
It goes down surprisingly easy for such a big, high-proof whiskey, so much so that water dumbs it down rather than softening the blow.
