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Default "Canadian Lyric" cocktail?

On 2006-07-27, Francis A. Miniter > wrote:

> By the way, has anyone noticed that the Irish and American spirit
> producers tend to use the spelling "whiskey" while the Scots and
> Canadian distillers use the spelling "whisky"?


Kingsley Amis in "On Drink" specifies "bourbon whiskey" in his whiskey
collins recipe, with the note:

For once, you can use rye or Irish whiskey or Scotch whisky* if you
feel like it.

and the footnote:

* Fact for the factually-minded: only Scotch may be legally be spelt
without the 'e'.


Incidentally, his note for the Old-Fashioned reads:

You really have to use bourbon. The Rye Old-Fashioned is not too
bad; the Irish version just tolerable; the Scotch one not worth
while.

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