quite perilous indeed
A Scottish distiller announced plans to revive production of the world’s most potent Scotch.
The Bruichladdich distillery on the Isle of Islay, off Scotland’s west coast, is producing the quadruple-distilled 184-proof or 92 percent alcohol spirit "purely for fun," managing director Mark Reynier said.
Whisky usually is distilled twice and has an alcohol content of between 40 and 63.5 per cent.
Bruichladdich is using a recipe for a spirit known in the Gaelic language as usquebaugh-baul, "perilous water of life."
In 1695 a traveler to the distillery had this to say of the potent and perilous whisky:
"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."
Not to mention, that if it did kill someone, the undertaker didn’t require any embalming fluid to preserve the body.
February 27th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
Give me some good ol TN white lightning-course many of the old hill folks were of Scottish ancestry–maybe they’re the same?
February 28th, 2006 at 11:34 am
hmmm…that will have to be for export only as the Alcohol by Volume tax will make that prohibitively expensive in the UK.
I once spent some time looking for Everclear or PGA for a very special party. I think I went to every liquor store in London – finally found some 80 plus percent Polish vodka, but they wanted crazy money for it.
I guess I should just make my own.
February 28th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Does the British company that DPW just bought run any UK ports? I’m sure you could get some TN shine thru if you shipped it to a mosque and labelled it Korans.
March 1st, 2006 at 5:44 am
92% in the shade of the Bruichladdich distillery?s stills
As the single grain come out of the still, it has a proof of 94.8 %, it has to be said that it is distilled in patent stills. Irish single malts are triple distilled and have a proof of about 80%. As for scottish single malts, they are double distilled…
March 1st, 2006 at 12:01 pm
I once took a double shot of Everclear to prove my manhood in college.
I never made it to the party we were planning on going to, and it took two guys to walk me back to my dorm.
Live and learn.