In some odder news,
Distillery to Revive 184-Proof Whisky
By JENNIFER PRICE
LONDON (AP) - A Scottish distillery said Monday it was reviving a centuries-old recipe for whisky so strong that one 17th-century writer feared more than two spoonfuls could be lethal.
Risk-taking whisky connoisseurs will have to wait, however - the spirit will not be ready for at least 10 years.
The Bruichladdich distillery on the Isle of Islay, off Scotland's west coast, is producing the quadruple-distilled 184-proof - or 92 percent alcohol - spirit "purely for fun," managing director Mark Reynier said.
Whisky usually is distilled twice and has an alcohol content of between 40 and 63.5 per cent.
Bruichladdich is using a recipe for a spirit known in the Gaelic language as usquebaugh-baul, "perilous water of life."
n 1695, travel writer Martin Martin described it as powerful enough to affect "all members of the body."
"Two spoonfuls of this last liquor is a sufficient dose; if any man should exceed this, it would presently stop his breath, and endanger his life," Martin wrote...
In personal news... this past weekend was excelelnt. I visited my parents after a long time, and took two friends home with me to make up for it. Among other things, I made them watch a Hindi movie that I like (with English subtitles). They actually admitted to liking it. We watched Final Destination 3 in a theater and enjoyed it tremendously - it was exactly what I expected: nonstop entertaining, gory deaths. Later on Sunday, Atif came over to my apartment from way up North Jersey as he had to take Step 2 Clinical Skills of USMLE in Philly today. We hung out for a bit yesterday, and as I was working at the hospital, he rocked the CS from 8-4. After he left, I meant to do some productive work, but, alas, here I am with nothing really accomplished. Ooh.. I just remembered... I left my Wal-Mart purchases from today in Soumen's car. I guess I will get them later - there is nothing I need immediately in there anyway. Oh well - time for some music and then off to bed. I have to get up an hour earlier tomorrow.
