LIQUOR: The Quintessence

Fhairson had a son

Who married Noah's daughter,

And nearly spoilt ta flood

By trinking up ta water.

Which he would have done—

I, at least, believe it—

Had ta mixture been

Only half Glenlivet.

—Old Scotch Ballad

The heart of Great Britain's export trade is the Scotch whisky industry; last year it earned $63 million in dollar sales, more than any other single British manufacture.* The heart of the Scotch industry is Glenlivet, a potent, peat-smoky liquor which many U.S. Scotch fanciers have never heard of. Glenlivet is little known because 98½% of its 220,000-gal. annual...

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