whiskey

"Mmm, yes, quite so. I do believe that the-"

"YO BRO cut it with the Downtown Abbey crap! For realsies though, this s**t blew hardcore sack, bro, not even playing. What I can't believe though, is that the dudes over at Orkey Islands waited 50 YEARS to sell this crap. MLG protip: if it wasn't good when Lincoln was president, it ain't gonna be good now! DEUCESSSSSSSS"

The SS Politician was an 8000-ton cargo ship owned by T & J Harrison of Liverpool. It left Liverpool on 3 February 1941, bound for Kingston, Jamaica and New Orleans with a cargo including 28,000 cases of whisky. The ship sank near the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland, and much of the wreck's cargo was salvaged by the island's inhabitants. The story of the wreck and looting was the basis for the book and film Whisky Galore!

The 39-year-old soccer star's new whiskey has finally hit stores in London. The new liquor, called Haig Club Single Grain Scotch Whisky, is now available for purchase at U.K. department store Selfridges for the cool price of $77 (or £45).

Via Ardbeg:

Since we launched Ardbeg's first whisky experiment into space in 2011 – in the shape of vials of Ardbeg-crafted molecules – it has been orbiting the planet on the International Space Station at 17,227 miles per hour, 15 times a day.

To re-cap, the vials contained a class of compounds known as 'terpenes.' Ardbeg was invited by US based space research company NanoRacks LLC to take part in testing these micro organic compounds in a maturation experiment (the interaction of these compounds with charred oak) between normal gravity on Earth and micro- gravity i.e. space.

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