The Cask of Amontillado (3140 bytes)
1: ...y is about revenge and is set in [[Italy]] during the [[19th century]].
7: ...ader never learns exactly why — against one of his "friends", ironically called Fortunato, and t...
9: ...ey continue to the damp, [[niter|nitrous]] air of the Montresor [[crypt]].
11: ...or ironically taunts him with his freedom, but in the end walls him up completely and leaves him, concl...
15: ... order to revenge Fortunato, that he must be sure the latter knows what it is for (while we do not know...

Amontillado (473 bytes)
1: '''Amontillado''' is a medium dry variety of [[sherry]], darker than [[fino]] but lighter than...
3: ...name is now commercially used as a simple measure of sweetness to label any sherry lying between a fin...

Dry cask storage (1945 bytes)
1: [[Image:Dry-cask.gif|right|]]
3: '''Dry cask storage''' is a method of storing high-level [[radioactive waste]].
5: ...to workers and members of the public. Some of the cask designs can be used for both storage and transpor...
7: ...ation shielding. See the picture of a typical dry cask storage system.
11: ...easing spent fuel storage capacity. See the graph of nuclear fuel storage pool capacity.

Finishing (998 bytes)
1: ...n used to mature some sort of [[fortified wine]], often [[sherry]], though sometimes [[port wine|port]...
3: ...e [[Glenmorangie Single Malt|Glenmorangie]] range of [[sherry]], [[port wine|port]], [[madeira wine|ma...

Balvenie (553 bytes)
1: ...whisky]] distilled by [[William Grant & Sons]] at the [[Balvenie Distillery]] in [[Dufftown]], [[Scotla...
9: * Islay Cask 17 Year Old
12: * The Balvenie Cask 191
13: * The Balvenie Vintage Cask 1973

Oloroso (759 bytes)
1: ...erally produced to be sweeter than [[fino]] and [[amontillado]].
3: ...wine ages, it becomes darker and stronger and are often left for many decades.
5: ...o the base for many of the sherries developed for the international market, such as Pale Cream or Brist...

Reserva (504 bytes)
3: ...ttle, at least one of which must have been in the cask.
5: ...n [[alcohol]] level of at least 0.5 percent above the regional minimum, and that it was made from a rat...

List of short stories (920 bytes)
1: '''List of [[short stories]].'''
3: *"[[The Black Cat (short story)|The Black Cat]]" by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]
4: *"[[The Book of Sand]]" by [[Jorge Luis Borges]]
5: *"[[The Cask of Amontillado]]" by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]
6: *"[[A Descent into the Maelstrom]]" by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]

Nemo me impune lacessit (1299 bytes)
1: ...rms.png|thumb|right|250px|The Scottish royal coat of arms]]
3: ...oyal Scots]] and [[Black Watch]] [[regiments]] of the [[British Army]].
7: ...d in the [[Edgar Allan Poe]] story "[[The Cask of Amontillado]]".
9: == Probable origin of the motto==
11: ...by extension now refers to the Scottish crown and the Scottish regiments which have adopted it.

Isinglass (2005 bytes)
1: ...ally sturgeon) that is used for the clarification of [[wine]] and [[beer]].
3: ...stry to accelerate the [[fining]] (clarification) of beer.
4: ...of cask conditioned beers ([[real ale]]) although there are a few real ales available which are not fin...
5: ...e beer and settle to the bottom of the cask where the floc remains.
6: ... however the use of isinglass finings accelerates the process.

Draft beer (1037 bytes)
1: ...s been served from, or has been conditioned in, a cask.
3: ...that these taste like those that have come from a cask.
4: ...& cloudy in a day or two. Below 6°C (44°F), a keg of draft beer should last 20-30 days before it loses...
6: ...]s to introduce nitrogen gas, simulating the head of a true draught.

Soviet cocktail (262 bytes)
4: * 1/2 oz Amontillado [[Sherry]]
7: ...ce, pour in a glass over ice cubes. Add the twist of lemon peel and serve.

Grant's (876 bytes)
5: ...cotch whisky brand, selling about 4 million cases of whisky a year.
9: ...amily Reserve, Cask Reserve and 12 or 18 year old Cask Selection.

Spigot ( object ) (267 bytes)
3: ...or tube of a faucet and used to regulate the flow of [[liquor]].

The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual (2536 bytes)
1: {{holmes infobox|1893|The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes|Reginald Musgrave|Unknown|Richard...
4: ...on, the story-within-a-story is a classic example of a [[frame tale]].
10: ...y reading a family document, the Musgrave Ritual. The Ritual reads:
16: :'Where was the sun?'
17: :'Over the oak.'

Sherry (4286 bytes)
1: ...ted States where it must be labeled with a region of origin such as American Sherry or California Sher...
3: ...atel). Sherry made in other countries often uses other grape varieties.
5: ...[Oloroso]] style is fortified to a strength where the flor cannot grow.
7: ... the bottle is as old as the number of barrels in the series and every bottle also contains some much o...
9: ...y English companies and styles developed. Many of the Jerez cellars were founded by British families.

John Ramsey McCulloch (2705 bytes)
1: ...[Ricardian]] school of economists after the death of [[David Ricardo]] in [[1823]].
3: McCulloch's opus was ''Principles of Political Economy'' (Edinburgh 1825). He worked o...
5: ... [[profit]] or [[interest]] in the case of a cask of new wine.
7: ...e value of additional labour actually laid out in the wine?"
9: ...for really efficient causes to operate, and it is therefore clear it can have nothing to do with value....

Fullers' Organic Honey Dew (330 bytes)
1: ... in the UK in 50cl bottles, and is available as a cask beer in Fuller's [[tied house]]s in [[Autumn]]

Scuttlebutt (418 bytes)
3: ...ard ship, and was a common place for the exchange of rumors, gossip, etc.
5: It was from this that we welcome the term in modern usage, i.e., rumor, loose talk, in...

Goon (1664 bytes)
1: ...muscular [[thug]] with very little intelligence. The term rose to prominence thanks to frequent usage ...
3: ...uts in hard hits on opposition players in defence of his less imposing and more vulnerable team-mates.
5: ...as a very popular and influential radio series in the [[United Kingdom]].
7: ...ish Shive]]'' takes its title from a [[nickname]] of writer [[Dan Shive]] and presumably has a similar...
9: The volunteers who serve as support staff at [[DEF CO...

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