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

Polydore polydore at ntbb.net
Mon Mar 20 07:36:21 PST 2006


Hey, Padraig, the site also has a nifty song that we could perhaps use..


Polydore wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>>     
>> *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.
>>
>>
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