There are three great types of distilled alcoholic beverages. They are rum, whiskey, and sake. Rum can be made with any type of a sugarcane product like molasses or sugarcane juice. It is a clear liquid that is usually aged in old barrels. People will put the light rums in their cocktails and they drink the dark rums on their own. There are seven types of grades of rum. They are light rum, gold rum, spiced rum, dark rum, flavored rum, over-proof rum, and premium rum. All of these grades depend on the place where the rum was distilled.

Whiskey is made from made from fermented grain mash. These grains include barley, malted barley, rye, malted rye, wheat, and maize. The two types of whiskey are malt and grain. They are combined together to make blended malt, single malt, blended whiskies, cask strength, and single cask. Sake is a Japanese beverage that is made from rice. It is known in America as a rice wine. But it has nothing to do with wine, it is processed like a beer. The two basic types of sake are Futs-shu and Tokutei meish-shu. They make the mash out of Kimoto, Yamahai, and Sokuj.