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Out of my price range at the moment. 
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Mine, too.
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Whisky connoisseurs on a swordsman's budget. How did we come to this?
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Easy. Bad life choices.
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Truth. I have come to rely on the kindness of strangers...giving me gifts of whisky at Xmas.
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(04-15-2020, 09:13 AM)Greg Wrote: Easy. Bad life choices.
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This is no joke
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Pope Francis Jokes That Scotch Whisky ‘Is The Real Holy Water’
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I mostly write about the water of life, better known as whisky. I am also covering the effects of the coronavirus in Scotland as part of Forbes' Coronavirus Dispatches series.
Scotch whisky fans didn’t need any spiritual confirmation that their drink of choice is divine indeed.
However, it doesn’t hurt that Pope Francis has actually declared Scotch whisky to be ‘the real holy water’. It’s important to note that he did say it as a light-hearted joke to the Scottish student priests who offered him a bottle as a gift at a reception in the Vatican.
Though the moment was captured on video last year, the story gained attention recently, as the piece of footage censored by the Vatican was for a soon-to-be-released BBC documentary about seminarians at the Pontifical Scots College in Rome. In a Daily Record article, documentary director Tony Kearney described the scene:
“He was really down to earth with them all [the student priests] and when they handed him the bottle, instead of just handing it to his assistant as he normally would with a gift, he held it up and said ‘Questa e la vera acqua santa’, which means ‘This is the real holy water.’”
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As for the specific whisky he was commenting on, it was a bottle of Oban, from the west coast of Scotland (both the 14 and the 21 year old are superb whiskies, by the way).
Based on past evidence, it seems that Pope Francis may indeed like the odd tipple of whisky now and then (which he is allowed to drink), as it’s not the first time he’s received bottles, or even used the ‘holy water’ line.
A 2019 article in the Dundee Courier describes how priest Father Jim Wallis, from Fintry in Scotland, met the pope shortly after taking up the role of spiritual director at the Pontifical Scots College in 2018. Joined by a group of Scottish bishops, they gifted the pope with a bottle of whisky. In the article, Father Wallis relates the encounter:
“It was a great honour to go into the Vatican and go to the chamber to meet the Pope and he came out and shook all of our hands. Then we presented him with a bottle of whisky and he looked at it and said ‘Ha ha, that’s holy water!’ He’s obviously been gifted some whisky before.”
Father Wallis is right, as Queen Elizabeth gifted Pope Francis a bottle of Scotch whisky (along with other produce from her Balmoral estate) when they first met in 2014.
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The pope is also not picky about where the whisky he receives has come from. In 2018, bourbon fanatic Father Jim Sichko posted a picture of him giving the Pope a bottle of the much-coveted 23-year-old Pappy Van Winkle bourbon whiskey. Apparently upon seeing the bottle, Pope Francis declared that it is ‘very good’ bourbon.
The pope’s appreciation of whisky, especially Scotch, is also entirely appropriate as it was monks that first brought the art of distillation, along with the Christian religion, to Scotland in the fourth and fifth centuries. Also, the first ever written reference to whisky comes from the Lindores Abbey (which is producing whisky again) in 1494, a record of malt delivered to for which he can make ‘[i]uisga beatha’ [/i]or ‘The Water of Life’. The word ‘[i]whisky’ [/i]evolves from [i]‘uisga’[/i].
Based on these accounts, the only mystery now left is what the Pope makes of a good Irish whiskey. He probably wouldn’t mind receiving a bottle to add to his growing collection.
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I'm drinking Game of Thrones Scotch, specifically House of Greyjoy from Talisker.
How good is it? I'm using ice.
Am I proud of myself? No.
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(05-20-2020, 11:27 PM)Dr. Ivor Yeti Wrote: How good is it? I'm using ice.
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I was sorely tempted by those GoT bottles especially because it was Talisker but I had a feeling that they would suck. Good way to dump their cask fails.
I remember being in Dublin and having various Irishmen ask me if I wanted ice with a testing raised eyebrow. I woudl snap back 'Hell no. Straight with a water back!' and they'd nod heartily and raise their glasses.
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Yeah, it had a cool label and was free, but now I'm having regret.
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making my jaymo black barrel look good then?
did you even watch the show?
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I watched about 5 or 6 episodes. I really enjoyed the production values and the acting. But not the whisky
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I'm pretty sure the Yeti was still slinging books when GRRM first released GoT........so many years ago.
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GoT ain't that old, but I do remember him from back in the day
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