I make things up and write them down. I hope one day someone will read them and believe me, and then print out a copy for someone else to read. Until then, would you believe me if I told you
Last night, I had a late dinner at a local Japanese restaurant. To take the edge off I requested, as my first drink, Glenlivet neat.
Maybe she thought, after taking in my visage, I needed a little extra.
Or perhaps what came out of my mouth was, “Glenlivet. Leave the bottle.”
The holidays are a great time for writers. Just don’t let anyone catch you jotting. You might just get carved yourself.
But then, what are the holidays without a few arguments, grudges, and pouty dessert sessions? So don’t forget to spike the egg nog.
I promise you…
Testing Whiskey With a Chip and a Laser
Identifying a good glass of whiskey requires attention to color, aroma and taste, and it takes some experience to learn. Spectroscopic tools can now automate this process, but most of them are complicated to use. Praveen Ashok of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland (where else?) have his colleagues have proposed a simple, portable device that tests whiskey (or any other beverage) without losing any to evaporation.
Must we apply science to EVERYTHING enjoyable in life?
Props to the human who can discern a wee drop of ant sweat in a barrel of 25-year old scotch whisky, not the robot that sticks its wee aluminum straw into a sterilized test tube and shows a positive-negative.
Sorry, but I shan’t share a drink with a receding-hairlined mustachio’d bloke carrying a portable drink-test. Instead, I toast to the data we quaff.
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