Saturday 22 December 2012

Addicted to pleasure, *****

If you haven't seen this, I really recommend it. The whole series has been superb, gently sticking the knife into the idea of a beneficent British Empire, the Scots less than salutary role it and  how it affects us physically and materially to this day.

Brian Cox also gets to try some 'Scottish hooch' fresh distilled from an old Hebridean pot still, which few people get to try as it can't legally be called whisky until it's been matured for at least three years in an oak cask.

There is also a nice explanation of how the Scottish summer sun causes the spirit in the cask to expand into the wood of the barrel, thus acquiring some of the flavour of the cask it is stored in.

Addicted to Pleasure, Brian Cox in a tour de force look at the history of the Scottish Whisky industry.


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