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Subject: Overproof scotch
From: narcimund
Posted: Sat Mar 4. 2006, 01:13 UTC
Are they trying to market scotch to college kids perhaps?

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http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060228-124641-2848r

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'Life endangering' scotch now distilling
ISLAY, Scotland, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Twelve barrels of what will be the world's 
strongest scotch whisky were in their second day of distillation in Scotland 
Tuesday with 10 more years to go.

The Bruichladdich distillery in Islay on a west coast island of Scotland 
followed the recipe of a quadruple-distilled liquor described in a 1695 travel 
book.

"The first taste affects all the members of the body: two spoonfuls of this 
last liquor is a sufficient dose, and if any man should exceed this, it would 
presently stop his breath, and endanger his life," the writer said.

Managing Director Mark Reynier told the BBC the process should produce a 
liquor with an alcohol content of around 92 percent, while traditional scotch 
whiskies run between 40 percent and 63.5 percent.

"In the long-run we will be looking at producing around 5,000 bottles and I 
honestly couldn't put a cost on it," Reynier said.

The Bruichladdich distillery was sold off by the U.S. multi-national Jim Beam 
in 1994


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