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  • Try the 92 per cent weapons-grade whisky that will take your breath away. Literally

    02/27/2006 1:04:17 PM PST · by Stoat · 244 replies · 9,567+ views
    The London Times ^ | February 27, 2006 | David Lister
    Try the 92 per cent weapons-grade whisky that will take your breath away. LiterallyBy David Lister, Scotland Correspondent   A 17TH-CENTURY firewater, more than two spoonfuls of which was said to be enough to kill a grown man, is to be revived by a whisky distillery in Scotland. A single drop of the ancient drink of “usquebaugh-baul” was described by the travel writer Martin Martin in 1695 as powerful enough to affect “all members of the body”. He added: “Two spoonfuls of this last liquor is a sufficient dose; if any man should exceed this, it would presently stop...