This Crazy, Crazy Whiskey World - Part II
The second part of our whiskey curiosities is here, and the reason are the thousands of interesting stories, statistics and disputes from around our whiskey galaxy.
We also had a recent topic about famous people connected to whiskey, but we were slightly embarrassed to mention that the great Frank Sinatra was buried with a bottle of Jack Daniel's. In his honour, there's a variety of the brand with his name on it, which you can try at Caldo whiskey bar.
Some bottles and labels hold symbolism or a connection with different stories from the past. For an example the triangular bottle of GlenfiddichI suspect this and the bottle of Grant's (same owner) symbolize air, water and barley - the three elements for whiskey production. Sounds boring, but logical.
The Japanese whiskey samurai Hibiki has 24 angles on the bottle, which symbolize the 24 hours of the day, as well as the 24 seasons in the Japanese calendar Sekki. Everyone who has tried it was left impressed and won by the Japanese drink.
We'll continue with the human and inhuman whisky stories, like that of the Titanic's head baker, who was in the icy ocean waters around the sinking ship for over 3 hours, but he claims he didn't feel cold because of the large amount of whisky he drank before and during the ship's sinking. Unfortunately, we don't know which brand of whiskey helped the good man, but we do know that there was a cat at the Glenturret distillery that lived for 24 years, in which it ate over 28,000 mice! There's a memorial in the cat's honour outside the distillery, but I guess the respect is because the cat was hungry, not thirsty...for whisky.
We've long disagreed with mixing whiskey with cola, juice, ice or making cocktails with malt distillates, but our friends at Dubai's Skyview Bar haven't followed our guidelines. They've boldly added 55-year-old The Macallan to a Manhattan cocktail, stirred it with a wooden straw from the brand's cask, and the ice was from the water coming into the distillery. They sold the cocktail for £4,632! Pounds! The question isn't whether they ran a receipt, but whether the customer repeated the order? Unanswered question, so we continue with a curious fact from the other side of the world.
Some countries in Latin America say "whiskey" instead of "cheese" before taking a picture. You can also smile and say whiskey, instead of cheese when you enter our websiteand in bar Caldo.
