no ice, please

Our friends, Katie and Robby, came over this past week. We went to Pitlochry and toured some distilleries. Our favorite was Blair Athol Distillery. We had a great tour guide from Glasgow named John. He taught us everything we ever wanted to know about whisky. He also told us that they usually shoot Americans at his distillery because they put ice in their whisky. Apparently, ice cools the whisky when your hand should be warming it up and the melting ice will continually chance the ratio of water to whisky rather than maintaining a constant ratio. As such, I never put ice in my whisky (since last Friday). On the way out, he showed us the graveyard where they bury ice-loving Americans.

We also went to Edradour Distillery--the smallest distillery in all of Scotland. It was quant, but the tour wasn't nearly as good as Blair Athol; however, it was free (including a whisky tasting).

And we also went to the Dewars Whisky Experience, but the last tour had already passed (even though it was only 3:30). So we had a gander around the gift shop and Stacey convinced someone to give us a free tasting (glad to have her around).