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Spirits
A spirit (or hard liquor, as it is known in the US) is an alcoholic beverage made by distilling cultivated raw materials like grain (as opposed to wine and beer which are produced through fermentation). Spirits have an alcohol content of at least 15% and as much as 45%. The distillation process purifies a mixture of liquids with different boiling temperatures, i.e. water and alcohol. As they evaporate at different points when heated, the vapour obtained becomes the distilled liquid. The word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus (spirit, soul), since historically, the product of distillation was considered to be the spirit, the very essence of the alcoholic drink, to which many healing properties were attributed in the Middle Ages. In the same vein, eau de vie (literally “water of life” in French) also refers to the supposed restorative powers and can mean spirits in general. WhiskyCognacArmagnacRhum