Bottle Whisky facts
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A 12 year old whisky will always remain a 12 year old whisky as it does not mature in the glass bottle.
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Jerningham Wakefield, a New Zealand politician who was such a notorious drunk, his friends would lock him in Parliament overnight to keep him sober enough to vote the next day. However, this failed in 1872 when his political enemies began lowering bottles of whisky down the chimney.
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When one fails the British/Dutch navies' Submarine Command Course ("The Perisher"), he is not told yet, but his bag is packed for him. When a boat/helicopter is ready the sailor is told of his failure, given a bottle of whisky, and immediately goes. He can never serve in a submarine again.
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Air New Zealand was once hijacked by a man with dynamite who was eventfully thwarted by an engineer who knocked him out with a bottle of whisky and the hijacker now regularly flies with them.
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Scotland Exports 40 Bottles of Whisky Every Second
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Charlie Sheen once tried to catch the Loch Ness Monster by using a leg of lamb, a big hook and a bottle of whisky.
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In 2014, Groundskeeper Willie (from Simpsons) featured on an official Scottish Independence video with a tattoo on his chest 'Aye or Die!' After losing the referendum, producers released an image of Willie, depressed in front of Union Jack with a tattoo of the Queen and empty bottles of whisky
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While filming the Australian television show Skippy, film crew would often give half a bottle of whisky to subdue an aggressive Emu called Hector. The next morning Hector was often more aggressive due to having a hangover.
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Most bottled whisky is diluted with water to bring its strength (i.e., its abv level) down to a level that makes it less expensive to produce and more palatable to most consumers, usually about 40% abv – a level that is the statutory maximum in some countries, and the statutory minimum in others
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In 2001, Kisimul Castle on the Isle of Barra in Scotland was leased by the chief of Clan MacNeil to Historic Scotland for 1000 years for the annual sum of £1 and a bottle of whisky.
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In 1987 Cabin crew on an Air New Zealand flight out of Fiji foiled an attempted highjacking using a duty-free whisky bottle.
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In the 1973 NFC Divisional Playoffs, a referee got hit in the head by a whisky bottle rendering him unconscious when he didn't call an offensive pass interference penalty
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There's a whisky private equity fund in Hong Kong, which manages a portfolio of more than 3,000 bottles and requires a minimum $250,000 investment
Winston Churchill was a heavy drinker. He’d start his day with 3-4 whisky and sodas before 11am, a bottle of champagne at lunch, a glass of brandy after lunch, 3-4 more whiskey and sodas at teatime, a glass of wine before dinner, and 3-4 more whiskeys before bed. - source
Out of 55 bottles of different rare scotch whiskies, bought from random auctions and stores, a third of them turned out to be fake. It is estimated that £41M worth of rare whiskey in the secondary market is fake. - source
