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I will definately grab a bottle of this when it's ready
Revived Whiskey Recipe Will Literally 'Take Your Breath Away'
March 1, 2006 6:30 a.m. EST
Andrea Moore - All Headline News Staff Reporter
London, England (AHN) - A Scottish distillery says it is reviving a centuries-old recipe for whiskey so strong its name, usquebaugh-baul, means "perilous water of life in the Gaelic language.
Managing director Mark Reynier says 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.''
Whiskey usually is distilled twice and has an alcohol content of between 40 and 63.5 per cent.
In 1695, travel writer Martin Martin described it as powerful enough to affect "all members of the body'' and 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.'' Reynier actually tried three spoonfuls and says, "I can tell you, I had some and it indeed did take my breath away.''
The rest of us will have to wait however, since the whiskey will not be ready for at least 10 years. Reynier says, "You get a better drink if you wait because of the basic oxygenation through the oak barrels.''
March 1, 2006 6:30 a.m. EST
Andrea Moore - All Headline News Staff Reporter
London, England (AHN) - A Scottish distillery says it is reviving a centuries-old recipe for whiskey so strong its name, usquebaugh-baul, means "perilous water of life in the Gaelic language.
Managing director Mark Reynier says 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.''
Whiskey usually is distilled twice and has an alcohol content of between 40 and 63.5 per cent.
In 1695, travel writer Martin Martin described it as powerful enough to affect "all members of the body'' and 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.'' Reynier actually tried three spoonfuls and says, "I can tell you, I had some and it indeed did take my breath away.''
The rest of us will have to wait however, since the whiskey will not be ready for at least 10 years. Reynier says, "You get a better drink if you wait because of the basic oxygenation through the oak barrels.''
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