Why should you drink more whiskey?
“I always drink whiskey before bed to prevent toothaches. I have never had it, and what is more, I never intend to have it” , Mark Twain.
WATER OF LIFE
Or prettier: Uisge Beatha , originally an almost medicinal drink whose main task was relieve grief after a loss ; The truth is that I don't think the encomienda has changed that much, right? Whether they are single malts, blends or grain whiskeys such as bourbon, the amber universe expands from Scotland to Osaka and from Ontario to Palazuelos de Eresma.
May 19 (sovereign nonsense to celebrate until celery day —which exists, exists!— but here everything that is toast: good) is marked in red on our calendar enjoy for a certain Blair Bowman As the world whiskey day so here we are to drink in the face of doubt. Take note: when in doubt, drink up!
CINEMA AND WHISKEY
There is no more cinematographic drink, there is not. The asphalt jungle by John Huston, The Bribed by Fritz Lang, The Shining Kubrick's r, Lost in Translation (they drink Suntory), pulp fiction , the hustler by Robert Rossen, Whit skirts and being crazy by Billy Wilder or almost any Scorsese masterpiece, like One of ours . If cinema, like The Maltese Falcon, is made of the stuff dreams are made of, its aroma is undoubtedly that of bourbon.
IT'S NOT ABOUT WHAT IT'S NOT
I hesitated to include some reason (with tweezers, of course) of the type “ It is an excellent anticoagulant " either " strengthens the immune system " but for what? If whiskey can boast of anything, it is its honesty: we have come here to play , so enough of homeopathic nonsense and childish apologies: we drink because we like it , because it doesn't feel damn good and because, so many times, we just need it. Sir Alexander Fleming He explained it much better than me: "A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime—it's not very scientific, but it helps."
SABINE
The hairs like hooks every time we hear that " ours lasted as long as two ice fish in a whiskey on the rocks ”; well, and with "you know better than me that to the bone, only the kisses you haven't given get through", too.
IT'S AN ADULT DRINK
An adult beverage for adult drinkers. A necessary drink in this so inexperienced, cheesy and mellifluous today, and it is that every day (unfortunately) our beloved whiskey is changing into a more iconoclastic and more trashy drink, who was going to tell us? In short: I can't imagine the 'caranchoa' drinking a Macallan at the Milford —rather, he'll go out “for drinks” through La Latina, I'm already seeing it.
drink and live
DON DRAPER'S OLD FASHIONED
Three years after the last episode of the best television series in history (yes, what's up?) and we still can't forget every Donald Draper's Old Fashioned in this fairytale of loneliness, growth and redemption. My life is definitely worse without Joan Harris, Roger Sterling, Peggy Olson, Betty Draper or Pete Campbell ; but I have the Old fashioned.
ISLAY AND ITS MOB
Islay, the southernmost island of the Hebrides and the most visceral and telluric drink you will ever taste. “Islay whiskey : a serious, complex, uncompromising drink, by drunkards for drunkards, necessary in these times of pax Romana gintonicista . A drink from the terroir, a prodigy of human ingenuity to take advantage of the need. Islay: rain, wind, smoke and peat. Slan'che – health ”. Enormous Finesse.
SINATRA HAS A COLD
Gay Talese unleashed and **an article** that we could pray in front of an altar every Sunday, because it is journalism history: “The house is tastefully furnished and is full of contrasts between the pious and the worldly: photographs of Pope John and Ava Gardner, Pope Paul and Dean Martin; several statues of saints and holy water, a chair with an autograph of Sammy Davis Jr. and bottles of whiskey.”
PEAKY BLINDERS
It is not possible to understand the universe of Peaky Blinders without the whiskey, there is no way. No way, bro. Because in each chapter and (almost) in each plane of this jewel of the BBC glasses, ashtrays and bottles of Uisge beata overflow and these days, to make matters worse, a British distillery called Sadler's has produced a limited series to the greater glory of the Shelby brothers: Don't fuck with the Peaky Blinders!
Don't mess with Betty
LADIES DRINKING WHISKEY
The mother of a good friend brags, to the more than eighty sticks of her, of never drinking water: "she is so vulgar." She drinks Talisker in small sips and I adore her , Sure.
FRANCISCO UMBRAL AND LATE LOVES
“Now, I have also left whiskey, or whiskey has left me. Whiskey has helped me write a few (the best) books, produce thousands of articles and forget several unforgettable girlfriends”, and who hasn't, Don Francisco? But what I really keep crying about is that gift he gave Fernán-Gomez: “I have a friend who knows the town where they make good kegs to mature whiskey. I'm waiting for him to sell me one to give it to Fernando Fernan-Gomez, that he is the last whiskey loyalist , when people, with dietetics, are switching to Perrier water.
I wash my feet with Perrier water.”
IT'S SEXY
she says it Ava Gardner and what Ava says must be taken to the ultimate consequences, “I would love to live 150 years, but since I know it is impossible, I will settle for having a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other the day I die” . It can't be sexier.
Ava Gardner is always right