BRANDY

(Old Eng. brandy wine; Ger. Branntwein, i.e. burnt wine), a spirituous liquor; average percentage of alcohol, 54; 8.G..93; prepared by distillation of wine; the best at Cognac; exported also from Spain and Canada. Pure b. is colorle ; pale b. deriving its color from cask, brown b. from caramel; flavor and aroma due to various ethers; furfurol, cenathic, butyric, and acetic; often made py adding these to alcohol and water. W.), stream, Pennsylvania and Delaware; Lord Howe defeated Washington, Sept. 11, 1777.