Welsh Whisky?

Indeed it's true!  The Welsh (should that be 'Welch?') are making whisky and know how to charge for it at that.  Is nothing safe?  In fact little is safe in this world, I fund out about this a long time ago that they were at it.  In fact one man relatively near me attempted to sell 'clear whisky,' colourless fluid with a kick.  However that was not allowed by those that run the authorisation for whisky, whisky has to have colour, usually a sort of golden amber colour. 

Not far from Merthyr Tydfil is a wee place called Penderyn where the distillery there will gladly charge you over £48 for this bottle featuring a Welsh hero.  At least that includes delivery!  Lesser prices are available.

 
This, with slightly damaged cork, was bottled over a hundred years ago at a lost distillery.  You can have this proud beauty for a mere £6,000 or so.  There are not many about.  I am not surprised!

Whisky, a grain based spirit, usually Barley in Scotland, these days can be made in many nations.  Scotland and Ireland are famous for this product, correct spelling is used in Scotland if course, 'Whisky' not 'Whiskey,' the word coming from the Gaelic for 'Water of life.'  Today Japan produces the majority of whiskies, India, Taiwan, I believe even Denmark has had a go but 'Scotch' is the right term to use surely?  
The 'Welsh Whisky Company'  like so many other things was not in fact Welsh, it was English owned and just happened to be built in Wales.  Beginning in the 1890's they released their first whisky too soon but they did manage to obtain a visit from Queen Victoria and later her son Edward thus ensuring royal patronage and fashionable people buying the stuff, it was after all the English market they wished to enter, not the Welsh.  Things however did not go well.  The product did not sell well, Irish drinkers were 'frosty,' one Scots commentator referred to "Scotsmen drugged with bad Welsh whisky," and little else is said. 
By 1900 the liquidator was offering the buildings for sale.  Some attempts were discussed at restarting but never happened.  Welsh whisky, an intruder on the market from the Scots and Irish viewpoint, was dead.
It appears another Welsh whisky company is coming to life, this however will not produce sales until 2020 at the earliest.  Some claim four distilleries are found in Wales today but I found little evidence, maybe there is a Still hidden in the bushes near where the Paratroops train in the hills?  That would not surprise me.