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15 unusual facts about Scotch whisky


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Eddie produces some Scotch and downs the lot, drinking himself into a stupor.

Adrian Lester

Also, in The Day After Tomorrow, Lester had a minor role as Simon, one of the three researchers who drink a toast of "twelve-year-old Scotch" shortly before freezing to death.

Annandale distillery

Annandale Distillery is a whisky distillery producing single malt Scotch whisky produced in Annandale, Scotland.

Aventure Malgache

Finally when the Vichy government falls, we see that the Vichy official is nothing but a turncoat; in his office he rapidly replaces a portrait of Marshal Philippe Pétain with a portrait of Queen Victoria, and he changes his bottle of Vichy water for bottles of Scotch and soda water.

Corecom

Western consumer goods sold at these stores were not available at regular retail outlets, including imported spirits and tobacco products (e.g. Scotch whisky and Marlboro cigarettes), consumer electronics (e.g. VCRs and video cameras), cosmetics, clothing, magazines, toys, and even foodstuffs such as Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs (commonly known as "Корекомски яйца" or "Corecom eggs" at the time).

Down Came a Blackbird

During one of the Scotch-fueled late night conversations between McNulty and Ramírez, he talks about a childhood friend who was an officer in the Army of his home country.

Francis Dennis Ramsay

However, as the paint is not commercially available, the artist must mix his own colours using pigment powders, oil, varnish, egg yolk and a preservative; uniquely, Ramsay discovered that Scotch whisky is an excellent preservative for the egg in the oil tempera mix!

Hold Back the Night

The film tells the story in flashbacks of a bottle of Scotch carried by a World War II and Korean War Marine, Captain Sam MacKenzie.

Magda's Funny Bits

The character is a Scottish alcoholic, who sought a scotch company as a sponsor.

My Brother and I

Meanwhile, on board a train carriage, a drunken figure with more than a passing resemblance to Mainwaring downs a bottle of Scotch.

R. R. McIan

McIan's early paintings concentrated on scenes from domestic life in the Highlands, such as illicit whisky stills and women grinding corn.

Secret Honor

Armed with a loaded revolver, a bottle of Scotch whisky and a running tape recorder, while surrounded by closed circuit television cameras, he spends the next 90 minutes recalling, with rage, suspicion, sadness and disappointment, his controversial life and career in a long monologue.

SS West Lashaway

In 1935, U.S. customs agents uncovered and seized a stash of 1,000 bottles of contraband Scotch whisky on board the ship upon her return from the Cape Verde Islands.

The Red Dot

While George is working at his new job, he becomes sexually attracted to a cleaning lady and has sex with her after they both drink "Hennigan's" Scotch, which is a recurring brand in the episode (and series).

Todd Hanson

Though he had been in counseling and on medication for the condition, he checked into a hotel room near his home in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, wrote two notes (one to his family, another to whoever found his body), consumed a bottle of Scotch whisky and over 60 Xanax pills, and lost consciousness for more than 24 hours.