[Loch-Ruadh] Here's one for Polydore and Padraig

[Kaz]

   *Proof positive for the world's strongest malt*

*Lorna Martin
Sunday February 26, 2006
The Observer <http://www.observer.co.uk/>*

It is often described as the water of life, but this particular dram could
leave you gasping for breath. Tomorrow, the Islay-based Bruichladdich
distillery, on the west coast of Scotland, will revive the ancient tradition
of quadruple distilled single malt. The process will produce the world's
strongest whisky at 92 per cent.

Centuries ago, people drank it as a cure for colic, smallpox and other
common diseases. But according to the world's oldest whisky tasting note,
written more than 300 years ago by the traveller Martin Martin, anything
more than two spoonfuls could prove fatal. In 1696, he wrote: '... two
spoonfuls of this last liquor is a sufficient dose; if any man should exceed
this, it would presently stop his breath, and endanger his life.'

The whisky is expected to become a collector's classic with only 12 barrels
being produced.




--
Kazimierz Zlowieszczy
(Kaz the Sinister)
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