Alcohol

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Spirits were an alcohol produced through distillation, and were usually quite potent. (PROSE: Blood Harvest) They could be produced using methods involving a still or through brewing in even the simplest of containers, such as a bathtub, which the Seventh Doctor did with whiskey when he was in Chicago in 1929, while he did so in the TARDIS, and could have used more traditional methods he claimed it preserved the period "flavour". (PROSE: Blood Harvest)

Spirits were consumed on their own, with a simple mixer (such as soda water, or tonic water) or were consumed as part of a cocktail.

Spirits were particularly flammable, Bernice Summerfield was able to use a bottle of particuarly cheap vodka and a lighter against a Martian on Earth in 1997. (PROSE: The Dying Days)

Drinking establishments generally stocked a range of alcoholic beverages, including spirits. On Blinni-Gar the bar served various beverages including Draconian sake and Foamasi brandy. (PROSE: Prime Time) Whilst on Earth in the television series Eastenders, a storyline in 2007 had Peggy Mitchell being confronted by a ghost of Den Watts, where she told him to get out of her pub, saying that the only spirits she served were gin, whisky and vodka. (TV: Army of Ghosts)

Cultural institutions

  • The Ninth Doctor threatened to triplicate the flammability of some brandy, but the Slitheen declared that he was "making that up". Harriet Jones also informed him that one passes to one's left. Later, he, Harriet and Rose imbibed a measure of that brandy after successfully rescuing Mickey and Jackie by phone. (TV: World War Three)

Commercial brands

Specific spirits

Brandy

Vodka

Whiskey

Other spirits