1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days by Albert Stevens Crockett

Old Waldorf Bar Days

WHISKEY-Less comprehensive in definition than in these days, whiskey formerly denoted an alcoholic liquor ob– tained by the distillation of a fermented starchy compound, usually a grain. Deriv., Gaelic, uisgebeatha, "water of life." For many years an important American manufacturing product, particularly engaging large numbers of the citizens of Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Louisville, with Peoria, Ill., and other centers of culture trailing along. Varieties: rye whiskey, made from that product; corn whiskey, called "Bourbon" if manufactured in Kentucky, but turned out as "White Mule" and under other names in illicit distilleries throughout the South; "Scotch," named for the country of its origin and popularly supposed to be made of oatmeal, the national dish, turned into spirits by the aid of peat fires, but more probably of barley; "Irish," made in Ireland, but of what the encyclopedia refuses to divulge; etc. Most names synonymous with whiskey were those of its partic– ular manufacturers; surviving names from a pre-prohibition past being "Haig and Haig," "Antiquary," "Perfection," "D ' " "Wh. L b l " "J h W lk " "P . ewar s, 1te a e, o nny a er, etc. n- vate stock" meant either a brand of whiskey bottled for some particular bar or its owner, or a bottle kept for the use of a particular customer. WINE-Formerly the juice of grapes, fermented by nature, in course of time. Varieties named in the compendium in– clude Claret, the ordinary red wine of certain districts in France (voltage, 13.3).; Burguncl.y, the heavy red wine of Bourgogne, 'France (voltage, 13.6); Madeira, the wine of the Portuguese Island of that name; Port, a wine whose name came from the Portuguese city of Oporto, whence it was exported; Rhin$!., meaning a wine made of grapes grown in the Rhine valley; Beaune, wines both red and white, made in the vicinity of Beaune, France, and about the same voltage as .Burgundy; Bordeaux, made of grapes grown in the territory contiguous to the city of Bordeaux, France (voltage, 11.5); Champagne, an effervescent wine made be– fore the war in the Marne region of France, particularly at Rheims (voltage, 12.2).

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