GOOD NEWS AT LAST!

THE WORLD’S MOST ALCOHOLIC SINGLE MALT
The small designer distillery Bruichladdich have developed what they claim is the world’s strongest single malt Scotch, using a 300 year-old quadruple distilling process to create "usquebaugh-baul" - Gaelic for ‘perilous whisky’. The spirit run started at 11.30 on Monday the February 27th. The whisky first ran at 92% down to 88% which will make an average of about 90%. Master Distiller Jim McEwan reported, "On entry the flavor is cool, fizzy, citrus - lemon and honey, then the taste of soft gooseberry and pear in syrup evolve as it glides across the palette with cereal and toasted muffins in the slipstream. There is no evidence of the power at this stage because the viscosity is almost like glycerine, however as it engages the taste receptors at the back of the tongue it really hits the booster button and an amazing heat floods deep into the chest. It’s brilliantly fresh and fizzy with an extremely pleasant afterburner effect and leaves an aftertaste that is superb, not long but unforgettable." And then, of course, it knocks you on your ass.

http://www.bruichladdich.com/
(The obvious next move would be for some grateful reader to send the old Doc a bottle of this perilous so he can test it out on his own taste receptors, and write about. Unless, of course, it kills him in the process.)

The secret word is Stagger

CRYPTIQUE – He drank himself to death but only with the good stuff.