Eau de vie is a French term for a colourless brandy distilled from fermented fruit juice. It is distilled from young fruit and rarely aged in wooden casks, thus preserving the freshness and aroma of the fruit. Typical spirits in this category are kirschwasser, a cherry-based beverage or framboise, which is made from raspberries. Brandy pot stills at the Van Ryn Brandy Cellar near Stellenbosch, South Africa For the singer and actress, see Brandy Norwood. ... In its strictest sense fermentation (scientifically called zymosis) is the energy-yielding anaerobic metabolic breakdown of a nutrient molecule, such as glucose, without net oxidation. ... Juice is the liquid naturally contained in plants. ... Kirschwasser (pronounced with the w as a vee sound, like kirschvasser) is a clear alcoholic spirit made from distilling the fermented juice of a small black cherry. ... Species Several, including: Prunus apetala Prunus avium Prunus campanulata Prunus canescens Prunus cerasus Prunus concinna Prunus conradinae Prunus dielsiana Prunus emarginata Prunus fruticosa Prunus incisa Prunus litigiosa Prunus mahaleb Prunus maximowiczii Prunus nipponica Prunus pensylvanica Prunus pilosiuscula Prunus rufa Prunus sargentii Prunus serrula Prunus serrulata Prunus speciosa Prunus subhirtella Prunus... Framboise (from the French word for raspberry) is a lambic beer fermented using raspberries which is native to Belgium. ... Binomial name Rubus idaeus L. The Raspberry or Red Raspberry, (Rubus idaeus) is a plant that produces a tart, sweet, red composite fruit (not a true berry) in late summer or early autumn. ...

Eau de vie is a translation of the Latin aqua vitæ (water of life). This is a corruption of the Spanish acqua di vitæ (water or juice of the vine), rendered by the monks into aqua vitæ instead of aqua vitis, and confusing the juice of the grape with the alchemists' elixir of life. The same error is perpetuated in the Italian acqua vite, the Scotch whisky, which is the Celtic uisc-lyf, the Irish usquebaugh, which is the Gaelic and Irish uisgæ-beatha, and the Scandinavian akvavit. Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Look up Alchemist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Alchemist may refer to— a person who practices alchemy. ... Elixir, by Yousuf Karsh, 1938 Elixir has several meanings: In alchemy, an elixir was a substance believed to be able to change base metals into gold. ... Scotch whisky Whisky (or whiskey) is an alcoholic beverage distilled from grain, often including malt, which has then been aged in wooden barrels. ... Celtic languages are the languages descended from Proto-Celtic, both those spoken by the ancient Celts, and those used by their modern descendants, the Gaels, Welsh, Cornish and Bretons. ... The North Germanic languages (also Scandinavian languages or Nordic languages) is a branch of the Germanic languages spoken in Scandinavia, parts of Finland and on the Faroe Islands and Iceland. ...