[Loch-Ruadh] Here's one for Polydore and Padraig
Polydore
polydore at ntbb.net
Mon Mar 20 07:22:26 PST 2006
I checked the website, you going to get us one for our birthdays? It is
only 300 per bottle. Oh, and that is Pounds, not dollars!
www.laddieshop.com/acatalog/Futures.html
Uddgar!
Kaz wrote:
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> *Proof positive for the world's strongest malt*
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> *Lorna Martin
> Sunday February 26, 2006
> The Observer <http://www.observer.co.uk/>*
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> 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.
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> 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.'
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> The whisky is expected to become a collector's classic with only 12
> barrels being produced.
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> Kazimierz Zlowieszczy
> (Kaz the Sinister)
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