Water is an important component, and not only because it hydrates the grains and enables fermentation to occur, but also because it contributes to the flavour and quality of the liquor, depending on its pH and mineral content.

Although it has a very different production method, and is usually of a higher quality ( and price ), this tsipouro is reminiscent of the flavor of the much more famous Greek liquor ouzo.

" A change in licensing laws ( as well as an overhaul of the SAQ ) introduced an expanded selection of wines to both depanneurs and grocery stores, although the SAQ retains control over the majority of quality wines, spirits and hard liquor.

This is also mistakenly used as a measure of the quality of the liquor.

Like most quality absinthes, Pernod Fils was produced by macerating herbs, including wormwood, fennel, melissa and anise in a neutral spirit of agricultural origin ( usually wine ) in a copper alembic where the mixture was then distilled, to produce a transparent liquor.

At the beginning of Prohibition he had formed a small-time gang which started to operate outside of Bay Ridge after taking control of " Big Bill " Bill Dwyer's bootlegging operations with partner Frank Costello in 1927, importing high quality Canadian liquor for Dwyer's high-society clientele.

" McCoy's legend grew as his quality liquor and fair-dealing perpetuated the phrase: " it's the real McCoy.

The treated liquor is rarely of sufficient quality to be released to the environment and may be tankered or piped to a local sewage treatment facility.

In A Modern Herbal, M. Grieve and C. F. Lyel write that the seeds and leaves of Salvia viridis used to be added to fermenting vats to " greatly increase the inebriating quality of the liquor ".

Its centuries old reputation and record of quality led to its being selected as the only representative of the Austrian liquor industry at the International World Fair in Chicago in 1950.

The highest quality cod was usually dried, and exported as Stockfish to the Mediterranean in exchange for fruits not available in the American colonies.

Since the Weimar Republic lacked the quantity of raw materials available to the United States and Great Britain, it had to rely on the proficiency of a skilled labor force and an ability to export innovative and high quality goods.

This limits the resources available for investments in the country's deteriorated public infrastructure, investments in many cases that would result in higher quality infrastructure if they were better planned.

Where good quality cheap fly ash is available, this can be an economic alternative to ordinary Portland cement.

The rate of decomposition is governed by three sets of factors — the physical environment ( temperature, moisture and soil properties ), the quantity and quality of the dead material available to decomposers, and the nature of the microbial community itself.

The quality and quantity of the material available to decomposers is another major factor that influences the rate of decomposition.

Initially, the highest quality signal was reserved for military use, and the signal available for civilian use was intentionally degraded ( Selective Availability ).

This network would have enabled easy access by road to the neighbouring countries of Brazil, Venezuela and Surinam ; reduced the costs of utilising the country's timber and natural resources, thus making them more competitive in international markets ; diversified agricultural development by making more easily available suitable areas in the hinterland, particularly in the Intermediate and Rupununi savannahs ; relieved the over-crowded coastland of a significant proportion of its population, thus improving the quality of life of the inhabitants of both the coastal and interior areas ; and made more feasible the equitable distribution of economic activity, not only in the agricultural but also in the manufacturing and small-industries sector.

Souvenir ceramics were produced depicting named gladiators in combat ; similar images of higher quality, were available on more expensive articles in high quality ceramic, glass or silver.

Drinking water of excellent quality is available everywhere and at any time in Germany.

Low quality of available factory ammunition even without scarcity of such ammunition can also lead to fabrication of handloaded ammunition.

This requires a set of bullet molds, which are available from a number of sources, and a source of known quality lead.

As of November 2007, according to ComReg the Irish Communications Regulator DSL is available to c. 88 % of homes and businesses, however this figure is disputed my many pressure groups in Ireland as it only reflects the number of telephone lines connected to a broadband enabled exchange, not whether those lines are of a high enough quality to receive a DSL connection.

However, it only became widely available in the 1870s after the process was modified to produce more uniform quality.

Mindmaps can be drawn by hand, either as " rough notes " during a lecture or meeting, for example, or as higher quality pictures when more time is available.

Labour and Social Welfare Minister Immanuel Ngatjizeko praised the 2008 study as " by far superior in scope and quality to any that has been available previously ", but its methodology has also received criticism.

Plastic chips are also available, at a wide variety of quality levels.

The quality of the available record players, tonearms, and cartridges has continued to improve, despite a diminishing market, allowing turntables to remain competitive on the high-end audio systems market.

Also, since October 2008, freshly prepared sushi is available, as well as high quality soup, cheeses and cured meats.

94 November – December issue of HBR ) points out that the serendipitous quality of innovation is highly recognized by managers and links the success of Japanese enterprises to their ability to create knowledge not by processing information but rather by " tapping the tacit and often highly subjective insights, intuitions, and hunches of individual employees and making those insights available for testing and use by the company as a whole ".

available, dial-up low quality, " broad band " ( 128 / 256 ) very expensive

In Tesla's time, the efficiency of conventional turbines was low because the aerodynamic theory needed for effective blade design did not exist and the low quality of materials available to construct those blades put severe limitations on operating speeds and temperatures.

Commercial products, marketed especially towards vegetarians and labeled as such, are available in most countries world wide, in varying amounts and quality.

Prices may diverge during a financial crisis, often termed a " flight to quality "; these are precisely the times when it is hardest for leveraged investors to raise capital ( due to overall capital constraints ), and thus they will lack capital precisely when they need it most.

These printers were also referred to as letter-quality printers because, during their heyday, they could produce text which was as clear and crisp as a typewriter, though they were nowhere near the quality of printing presses.

Indeed, during the period that these supplements were produced, third party campaign publishers strove to emulate the quality of the additional materials, often offering separately-priced ' deluxe ' clue packages for their campaigns.

This increase in glycerol has been postulated to be responsible for the lubricating quality of this fertile cervical fluid and may be biologically relevant during the early phase of reproductive events.

The dinosaur fossil record has been interpreted to show both a decline in diversity and no decline in diversity during the last few million years of the Cretaceous, and it may be that the quality of the dinosaur fossil record is simply not good enough to permit researchers to distinguish between the options.

Although shortstop Ernie Banks would become one of the star players in the league during the next decade, finding help for him proved a difficult task, as quality players such as Hank Sauer were few and far between.

In Britain particularly, good quality building stone became ever more expensive during a period of rapid growth, and it became a common practice to construct prestige buildings from the new industrial bricks, and to finish them with a stucco to imitate stone.

Though the fiber flow ( local inhomogeneities of the material's chemical composition generated during casting ) doesn ’ t follow the shape of the crankshaft ( which is undesirable ), this is usually not a problem since higher quality steels, which normally are difficult to forge, can be used.

However, during the same period, a group of ambitious producers began working outside the boundaries of DOC regulations to make what they believed would be a higher quality style of Chianti.

Commonly during explosions, flames, flocks of animals, and in some panning shots, the high-frequency detail leads to quality decreases or to increases in the variable bitrate.

This process whereby an actor rerecords lines spoken during filming in order to improve audio quality or reflect dialogue changes is called Automated Dialogue Replacement ( ADR ), also known as Additional Dialogue Recording.

It is his / her responsibility to monitor the quality and continuity of the Actors and Actresses costumes before and during takes.

If the sound of the word is emphasized during the encoding process, the cue that should be used should also put emphasis on the phonetic quality of the word.

GPRS is a best-effort service, implying variable throughput and latency that depend on the number of other users sharing the service concurrently, as opposed to circuit switching, where a certain quality of service ( QoS ) is guaranteed during the connection.

In the book " Golden Rules of Business Success " written by Fan Li ( or Tao Zhu Gong ) during the Spring and Autumn Period, there are some parts mentioning the art of beekeeping and the importance of the quality of the wooden box for bee keeping that can affect the quality of its honey.

Road passenger and freight transport expanded considerably during the 1980s as private ownership of motor vehicles greatly increased along with the quality and extent of the nation's roads.

Audubon found that during his absence, he had lost some subscribers due to the uneven quality of coloring of the plates.

With regard to the former, which is professedly published as a psychological curiosity, it having been composed during sleep, there appears to us nothing in the quality of the lines to render this circumstance extraordinary.

Thus, this quality of acceptance of new gods to the collection of existing gods may have been one of the shaping characteristics for the success during the Christianization of Mesoamerica.

In 2004, Mozambique introduced a new health care initiative to train midwives in emergency obstetric care in an attempt to guarantee access to quality medical care during pregnancy and childbirth.

Asian martial arts experienced a surge of popularity in the west during the 1970s, and the rising demand resulted in numerous low quality or fraudulent schools.

Humidity levels are ideal during the growing period and the combination of climate, soil and viticulture practices leads to consistently high quality fruit of intense flavour.