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.

   

Why does......

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Mike S. come to mind.....eh, tell me that?

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You Canny Trust the Welsh!

Now, as you know, an Englishwoman has claimed the English invented the Haggis, Scotland's national dish. This imperialist attempts to acquire Scotland by stealth, piece by piece and pudding by pudding, it appears! The fact that her claim is based on a recipe found in an English book from the sixteen hundreds shows the lie. Scots women did not use recipe books, their mothers taught them domestic chores from childhood, as indeed proper mothers have always done! Just because this middle class girl possessed a mother more intent on her career rather than teaching her daughter the important things, like how to cook, make curtains and look after the male of the house, is no reason to imagine folk living in 'Black Hooses' in Scotland were not brought up properly, they were! While herding the cow, and sowing the oats (not like that) the lass of the hoose also ensured the haggis were caught, skinned and cooked without looking at any recipe book. Just as well as nobody taught them to read until the reformation came along!

Anyway we move on to another lesser people attempting to purloin Scots culture - this time the Welsh! These sheep chasing hill dwellers have long been renown for their gathering on hillsides in order to form 'Male Voice Choirs,' - at least that is what they say, and for having more rain fall on them than any other part of the United Kingdom. As the lesser of the Celtic nations, they come just above Cornwall and Brittany, and even then that is better than their Football World Cup record of course, the Welsh are renown for 'hanging on the coat tails of their betters, and by this I mean especially, the Scots. This desperation to be accepted as a proper nation, as opposed to being just a large English county full of biggish hills that have failed to become mountains, and inferior type rugby union players, this desperation has led to them over reach themselves and to go where only the Japanese have gone before - they are making counterfeit WHISKY!

Not only are they calling this cold tea, 'whisky,' but they are actually calling it 'Welsh Whisky' as if this is something to be proud off! Ptah! To make matters worse these purveyors of the dupe liquid (known as Wisgi Cymreig to them, at least to those that actually speak that strange garbled tongue which they claim is Gaelic) these purveyors are charging up to £320 a time for a bottle of the amber fluid! Have they gone mad? (Actually that gives me an idea. Maybe I ought to open a whisky shop?)

Naturally one ought to be happy about such imitation. For one, unlike the Japanese, they did not call it 'Scotch,' nor did they use a name such as 'Queen George IV,' so things could have turned out much worse. Mind you they have forgotten to put the strength of the stuff on the label, did you notice? For another thing there is no doubt the Welsh, like the English wumman, are merely admitting what we all know, that the Scots are indeed superior to those South of the border, or in the case of the Welsh, just 'over the hill!'