She found if she told her students that, for example, a wine had high alcohol content, high acidity and good body, the students had a hard time remembering that.

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The bar's policy is no more than three pours of absinthe in an evening, but the amount of time it takes to prepare and drink the spirit, along with its high alcohol content, means the limit is rarely an issue.

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The ban against the drink was a politically-motivated appeal at emotion, sure, but standing up for high-alcohol content, hyper-caffeinated swill that puts teens and college kids in hospitals at much higher rates than other drinks is not a proud line in the sand for a chef to draw.

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Mr. Theofilatos is making six basic flavors with low alcohol contents and currently has one high-alcohol flavor, Mava Roka, which has an alcoholic content of about 7 %.

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It is the same whiskey without the addition of water, a standard step in the final production of nearly every spirit, which is done to bring the alcohol content down from the high level at which it leaves the aging casks.

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