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Just Like Beer, Scotch Gets Canned
ABC News ^
| 09 Jan 13
| Lauren Torrisi
Posted on 02/08/2013 6:57:39 PM PST by Drew68
Just when the controversy over the banned FourLoko has died down, a beverage company has come out with straight Scotch in a can, just like soda pop.
Though theres been no uproar so far, as was the case with the alcohol-caffeine combo FourLoko, Scottish Spirits Scotch in a Can is being marketed as a distilled and matured in Scotland for a minimum of 3 years in oak casks. It has notes of honey, vanilla, butterscotch, apples and pears, and a hint of peat and smoke in the background, as described on their site.
Each can contains about eight shots or 12 ounces of 80-proof Scotch.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beerlist; booze; liverfailure; pancreatitis; scotch; wasted
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To: dynachrome
Only Scotch product in a can I’ve ever tried was canned haggis.
Having never had “real” haggis I can’t compare...but it was tasty.
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:24:44 PM PST
by
lightman
(If the Patriarchate of the East held a state like the Vatican I would apply for political asylum.)
To: Drew68
No.
No, no, no. Just no.
Just because you *can* do something, doesn’t mean you should.
This is one of the ultimate examples.
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:26:23 PM PST
by
Chad N. Freud
(FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
To: Drew68
No wonder Hillary Clinton’s maid is smiling. Now, when Hillary falls down, she doesn’t have to worry about broken glass.
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:26:23 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: lightman
Canned haggis may be blasphemy, but who would notice the differnce in taste? (haha. kidneys, lungs,heart, liver, is not to everyone’s taste!)
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:28:59 PM PST
by
dynachrome
(Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
To: doc1019
There's absolutely nothing wrong with wine in a box -- provided that it was good wine, aged properly in casks, before putting it in the box. In fact, boxed wine is better than bottled (everything else being equal), if you're not going to drink the whole bottle at one sitting. The inner bag (in boxed wine) collapses as the wine is withdrawn -- no air gets in. To keep bottled wine for another day, you have to fill the bottle with inert gas, or (at a minimum) immediately decant the remainder into a just-big-enough bottle, which you reseal.
Scotch in a can -- blasphemy doesn't begin to cover it. This product is cheap scotch, with mixers (a form of water pollution). If you have to use a mixer, you aren't drinking scotch. If this were a well-aged single-malt scotch, in those cans along with all that mixer -- that would be a hanging offense.
To: Drew68
I'm guessing this isn't being marketed to those who enjoy sipping a 25-year old Macallan. Heh, did you notice that one of the cans says "single grain scotch whisky"? Pity, the better single grains have been getting some respect lately. This is probably more like paint remover.
It's definitely not a new concept, though. I've seen references to this before in the whisky reviews posted on YouTube by Ralfy Mitchell (entertaining fellow, btw). Hey, it beats "American Idol".
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:33:48 PM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Scotch in a can -- blasphemy doesn't begin to cover it. This product is cheap scotchI don't think it matters. You know who is going to drink this stuff? 18-25-year old males (with dire consequences for many of them)...
...and bums.
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:39:46 PM PST
by
Drew68
To: Drew68
An ounce and a half is a shot now?
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:41:15 PM PST
by
razorback-bert
(I'm in shape. Round is a shape isn't it?)
To: Charles Martel
Heh, did you notice that one of the cans says "single grain scotch whisky"? Pity, the better single grains have been getting some respect lately.LOL! I just now noticed this! Blended and single grain. Obviously, the single grain is for those with discriminating tastes.
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:42:51 PM PST
by
Drew68
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Nether a wine or Scotch drinker am I, just an occasional beer doth pass these lips on a hot summers day. However your upgrading of my knowledge base is well appreciated. Thanks.
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:43:33 PM PST
by
doc1019
To: yarddog
Coke out of a can sucks.
Pepsi is tolerable, if ice cold. But Coke....no way
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:43:50 PM PST
by
digger48
To: Drew68
Just what I needed to read at bedtime. I will probably have a nightmare about being chased by a Claymore.
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:44:16 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: razorback-bert
An ounce and a half is a shot now?As it should be!
God bless the lovely bartender at the now closed 15th Street Tavern in Denver who, when I would order a shot, would fill up half a tumbler.
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:45:07 PM PST
by
Drew68
To: razorback-bert
I worked part time as a bartender back in the late 60’s and an ounce and half was a shot back then as well.
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:48:51 PM PST
by
doc1019
To: Chad N. Freud
No way I could improve on your statement.
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:49:06 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: Drew68
Each can contains about eight shots or 12 ounces of 80-proof Scotch.Cool. Just hold it upside down
Punch a hole in the bottom with a church key and then
pull the tab to take it all in with one gulp.
Beautiful.
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:49:59 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:54:23 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Drew68
"I'm going ta skelp yer wee behind!"
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posted on
02/08/2013 7:55:54 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: BenLurkin
If you’re gonna put a shotgun to your face, that’s the way to do it.
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posted on
02/08/2013 8:11:44 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(The Palin Doctrine.)
To: Drew68
But, will it come with two packets of Splenda?
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posted on
02/08/2013 8:11:55 PM PST
by
Slyfox
(The key to Marxism is medicine - Vladimir Lenin)
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