[Avodah] Selling whiskey/bourbon

[Simon Montagu]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:

> Tal Moshe Zwecker wrote:
>
>> I may have misunderstood but I think the issue here is that what we have
>> is a taaruvos chametz - a mixture of chametz and other ingredients
>>
>
> But whiskey is *not* a taaroves, it's chametz itself.
>
>

Does adding water to liquid chametz make it a taaroves?  Scotch whisky has
water added when it's bottled.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_whisky#Bottling says that cask strength
is 50%-60% alcohol while bottled whisky is normally 40%-46%. If my math is
right, that would mean that anything between 8% and 33% of the bottle would
be water.
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