Marbh & Uisge Beatha

Jacksonville's piper Bill Stewart conducted our first Scottish Whisky tasting session on Friday, February 6th. Several fine single malts were sampled with guidance from Mr. Stewart and Michael Jackson's book, Complete Guide to Single Malt Scotch which is available at The Jacksonville Public Library. The malts were sampled after each round of a Murder Mystery game along with dinner and dessert.
The diversity of malt sampled during the evening:
Speyside-12 year old
The lowland Auchentoshan Select
The Islay Bowmore-12 year old
The Highland Glenmorangie/Quinta Ruban-port cask non chill- filtered

Do murder & Scotch go together? The Bookwraith says, "Yes." The Bookwraith also won the game.

Murder

Sir Walter Scott received Sharpe' s permission to include "The Murder of Caerlaverock" in his effort to preserve those ballads surviving through oral tradition. It was also printed as "The Murder of the King of Scott's" by Percy and collected by Childe as "Earl Bothwell." Murder is a literary gift that keeps on giving and is found throughout Scott's works indicating Scots were a somewhat less than peaceful people.
Read Scott's works to learn from history. Read my next entry which provides an account of the first meeting of Jacksonville's "Marbh & Uisge Beatha." Do murder and whisky go together. The bookwraith says, "Yes."