We continue the second series with curious facts from the world of whisky, driven by the thousands of interesting stories, statistics, and even disputes from one end of our whisky galaxy to the other.
We recently had a topic about famous personalities associated with whisky, but we were a little hesitant to mention that the great Frank Sinatra was buried with a bottle of Jack Daniel's. In his honor, there is also a variation of the brand with his name, which you can try at Caldo whisky bar.
Some bottles and product labels have symbolism or a connection to various stories from the past. For example, the triangular bottle of Glenfiddich, and I assume Grant's (the owner of both brands is the same - the Grant family), symbolizes air, water, and barley - the three elements of whisky production. It sounds boring, but it's very logical.
The Japanese whisky samurai Hibiki has 24 facets on its bottle, symbolizing the 24 hours of the day, but also the 24 seasons in the Japanese Sekki calendar. Anyone who has had the opportunity to experience the bottle, and the liquid within, has been impressed and won over to the Japanese side.
We'll continue with human and non-human whisky stories, like that of the Titanic's chief baker, who was in the icy ocean waters around the sinking ship for over 3 hours, but claimed he didn't feel the cold due to the large amount of whisky he drank before and during the ship's sinking. Unfortunately, we don't know which brand of whisky helped the good man, but we do know that at the Glenturret distillery, there was a cat that lived for 24 years, during which it ate over 28,000 mice! There's a monument to the cat outside the distillery, but I assume the respect is because the cat was hungry, not thirsty...for whisky.
For a long time, we haven't agreed with mixing whisky with coke, juice, ice, or making cocktails with single malt distillates, but our friends from Skyview bar in Dubai haven't followed our guidelines. They boldly added 55-year-old The Macallan to a Manhattan cocktail, stirred it with a wooden straw from the brand's barrel, and the ice was made from water sourced from the distillery. They sold the cocktail for 4,632 pounds! Pounds! The question isn't whether they issued a fiscal receipt, but whether the customer repeated the order? A question without an answer, so let's continue with a curious fact from the other side of the world.
In some Latin American countries, before a photo, instead of "cheese," they say "whisky." You can also smile and say whisky, not cheese, when visiting our website, and also in person at Caldo whisky bar.
