My eldest brother turned 60 last year and to celebrate his wife wanted to get him a bottle of 30 year old Macallan malt whisky. Fortunately for her purse this proved to be out of stock as the prices started at £200 and went up!
Having discovered this my brain took me back in time to a Christmas about four years previously when my younger brother and his family were visiting at my mother’s place and I had gone up to join them. One cold night we are enjoying a pint or three of Guiness in the pub closest to her house when my brother noticed a bottle of malt on the top shelf behind the bar.
The bottle in question was a 30 year old Glenfarclas and was a little over one third full - now this is one of our favourite distilleries so we just had to try it. The taste was amazing so we had another couple, it was expensive but well worth every penny and we returned the next night to finish off the bottle.
Now the distillery is only about 12 miles from my mother’s house so after checking with my sister in law I headed out the next day to purchase a bottle for him which came in at the pretty reasonable price of £90. It also resolved the dilemma of what we should get him by picking up the 21 year old at the same time.
Being the cantankerous old git that he is he preferred the taste of the Macallan 30 year old that he had tried one time while visiting the distillery. However youngest bro’ and I will always prefer the Glenfarclas.
So that is how I ended up with the photograph - taken to taunt youngest bro’ in Indonesia.
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