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Makaannan Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Mild alcoholic beverages

Hi!

is there an "established" term for alcoholic beverage with an alcohol content of a maximum of approx. 20%? Are these called "mild alcoholic beverages" or is there another term. I want to mention spirits on one hand and the milder stuff on the other...

BR

Olav
  

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Distilled spirits are also informally called 'hard liquor', but wine, sake, and similar fermented alcoholic beverages of that range (roughly 12-20%) are certainly not 'soft' or 'mild', and are not termed such. I know no established term for wines and beers as a group in contradistinction to hard liquor.

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  • Distilled spirits are also informally called 'hard liquor', but wine, sake, and similar fermented alcoholic beverages of that range (roughly 12-20%) are certainly not 'soft' or 'mild', and are not termed such.
  • I know no established term for wines and beers as a group in contradistinction to hard liquor.
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Distilled spirits are also informally called 'hard liquor', but wine, sake, and similar fermented alcoholic beverages of that range (roughly 12-20%) are certainly not 'soft' or 'mild', and are not termed such. I know no established term for wines and beers as a group in contradistinction to hard liquor.
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Thanks for your help! I think I'll just put spirits and other alcoholic beverages...

Olav
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I'm afraid you'll have to, Olav. Here's a sample from the internet, by the way:

We're serving wine and beer but
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