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There are only 225 bottles of the single malt Scotch whisky worldwide, of which only six are available in Singapore.The Orkney Islands, located at the northernmost tip of Scotland, is a unique archipelago defined by wild beauty and a Viking history dating back to the 8th century. Here, heather peat blankets moorland, the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean crash onto rugged cliffs, and salt-laden sea winds sweep through the cluster of 70 islands of which only 20 are inhabited. Orkney has only two distilleries, one of which is Highland Park and it has been producing award-winning elixirs since 1798. For...

After generations of his family spent their lives as outlaws for making the infamous Irish poitín, Pádraic Ó Griallais has finally been able to carry out the family business in the open just under a decade after the spirit was outlawed. Taking a career break from his job as a high school teacher to establish a new business based on his old family recipe, Ó Griallais is free to produce and sell the highly alcoholic spirit as he pleases without the interference of the Gardaí [Irish police], who hounded the previous poitín distillers in his family with raids to put...

Moonshine kills at least 133 in IndiaDecember 15, 2011 | By Harmeet Shah Singh, CNN **SNIP** At least 327 people were hospitalized. Many people were in critical condition and S.P. Basak, the director of the West Bengal health department, feared the death toll could rise.

DHARMAPURI (TN): Tamil Nadu Government has suspended 21 police personnel, including an inspector, in connection with the Saturday's hooch tragedy in a village near here which claimed three lives. Inspector M Krishnan and five other personnel of the Bommidi Police station and 15 members of Harur Prohibition Enforcement Wing had been suspended on the recommendations of District Superintendent of Police Najmul Hoda, police said on Monday. Three persons died and 40 were hospitalised after drinking the killer brew in Kukkalmalai village, 35 km from here on Saturday in the second liquor tragedy in less than a month in the state....

COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) - A police survey says panhandlers outside a Wal-Mart here can make $300 a day. Inside, it takes a clerk a week to make that much. Police say people who have a problem with that needn't look to the law--asking for money is considered protected free speech. "We are not going to target panhandlers," said Coos Bay Police Capt. Rodger Craddock, who spoke a recent gathering of business owners about panhandling. "We can't do that. But if they aren't getting money from us, they aren't going to stand on that corner." He said most panhandlers are...

Fresno -- The mistress of convicted murderer Scott Peterson is back in the spotlight after a DNA test showed that her first child was not fathered by the man who has been paying child support. Fresno hairstylist Anthony Flores, 29, has been paying Frey $175 a month for nearly four years, his attorney, Glenn Wilson, said Wednesday. The father of the 4-year-old girl is actually Fresno restaurant owner Christopher Funch, Wilson said. No one answered the telephone at Porky's Rib House on Wednesday, and Funch did not have a listed home number. "You'd think that Amber Frey's notoriety would have...

Two Mesquite teens were turned away from their senior prom last weekend, told by school officials that their dresses were too revealing. Natarra Allen and Brittni Brown say they are devastated because they had to miss the once-in-a-lifetime event. Mesquite school officials say they made it very clear what types of dresses are considered inappropriate. Horn High School even gave a PowerPoint presentation with examples

MUMBAI: Civic hospitals in the city continued to witness a steady stream of hooch tragedy victims on Wednesday even as the toll surged to 75. Doctors from Rajawadi and Sion Hospital, where most of the victims have been admitted, said that at least 80 persons were still critical. The Rajawadi Hospital authorities reported a total of 183 patients being admitted, of whom at least 49 succumbed to internal haemorrhage caused by the spurious liquor. At least, ten persons were brought dead, late at night on Tuesday, medical superintendent Dr V B Shukla said. At Sion Hospital, six of the 34...

A fed-up consumer calls it "socialism." A fed-up retailer calls it "state-sponsored gouging." They’re referring to an Ohio law that requires vintners, distributors, and retailers to jack up the price of a bottle of wine a total of 135 percent before it hits the shelf. As a result, wine costs up to 50 percent more in Ohio than in other states, translating into $100 million a year that Buckeye State residents could spend on something else. "I don’t know how this could possibly benefit the public," Tom Jackson, president and chief executive officer of the Ohio Grocers Association, told the...