Much of the function of the manual transmission can be carried over to, or analogized to the study of automatic transmissions. In its most basic form, a manual transmission consists of a set of gears along a pair of shafts, the input shafts and output shafts. The gears on one shaft engage with those on the other shaft.
A distilled beverage, spirit, liquor, or hard liquor is an alcoholic beverage produced by distillation of a mixture produced from alcoholic fermentation.he term spirit refers to a distilled beverage that contains no added sugar and has at least 20% alcohol by volume (ABV).
The Brandy Cocktail. A cocktail, by its earliest 1806 definition, is a drink made by mixing a spirit with water, sugar and bitters. Water quickly comes to mean ice as the cocktail evolves. And itâs from this ancient school of the bibulous arts that we gain the Old Fashioned, and this: The Brandy Cocktail. Its simplicity is its charm.