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Once again, Victoria was home to the country’s largest event celebrating the caramel-coloured booze that helped define the 19th and early 20th centuries. On Thursday, Jan. 15, the Canadian Whisky Awards were held at Hotel Grand Pacific, recognizing the top distillers within the nuanced world of the highly esteemed canuck-made drink. …Canadian whisky is more regulated compared to other countries, especially our American counterparts, in that the federal Food and Drugs Act requires liquor labelled as ‘Canadian whisky’ to be mashed, distilled and aged in Canada, to be aged in wood vessels for at least three years, and it must contain at least 40 per cent alcohol by volume.