That evening found us standing in a muddy field with thousands of people, arms around each other in a row, swaying and belting out the words to Elbow's One Day Like This as the sun set over Worthy Farm, and surreptitiously shooting Glastonbury sunset photos with one hand, while swigging pre-mixed whisky and coke from a warm can with the other.
He mixed together malt whisky from The Glenlivet with other whiskies in 1853 and labeled it as Old Vatted Glenlivet, or O.V.G.
250g currants 250g sultanas 100g dried figs, roughly chopped 100g glacé cherries, cut in half 100g mixed peel 125ml whisky, plus extra to feed 125g butter, softened 125g muscovado sugar 4 eggs, beaten 130g plain flour ½ tsp baking powder 1 tsp mixed spice 50g ground almonds Grated zest of 1 lemon 50g whole almonds 25g crystallised ginger, chopped 1.
On this list, you'll find bourbons mixed in with blended whisky mixed in with single-malt Scotch.
By night a newer facet of Spanish culture is on display: loitering groups of young people downing plastic bottles of whisky and vodka mixed with Fanta Lemon.
Something of a clubhouse for New York's mixologists, Dram is heavy on whisky and ornately mixed – if sometimes expensive – boozy concoctions.
Making my way down to the beach, head still fuzzy from tropical punch and "atomic bombs" (an energy drink mixed with a brand of whisky called K20 that comes in plastic sachets and numbs the mouth on contact), I pitch up on the sand outside the Black Star Surf Shop and wait for its owners to drag themselves out of bed.
Many secular Kurds say they do not care what is banned in the Shias' holy city of Najaf, provided that no one stops them from sipping whisky and holding mixed-sex picnics in their hills up north.
The grown-up sweets took off – choose between the gin, whisky, vodka, rum or mixed sweet selections from £9.99, per box of six.
In reasonable doses and proper circumstances, Laphroaig can be delicious, but its popularity is a mixed blessing for the industry, because whisky neophytes who try Laphroaig and hate it may never return.
Add the whisky and mix through.
