Throw in some elves, a mermaid, a few robot monks; dream up a land where dinosaurs still exist or the Nazis won the second world war.
In the 1920s the monks moved back to Grenoble where the drink is still made to this day.
Visitors aren't really supposed to talk to the monks but they're a friendly sort at Pluscarden and, after mass on New Year's Day, a jovial older monk, Father Matthew, popped down to St Scholastica's to wish us well.
The monks here practise Seon, or Zen Buddhism.
As with other Benedictine monasteries, Pluscarden's community of 17 monks follows the Rule of St Benedict.
Whereas many drinks made by monks are only incidentally monastic, Chartreuse has a special significance for Roman Catholics.
Anthony Blanche extols its virtues with his affected stammer: "Real g-g-Green Chartreuse, made before the expulsion of the monks.
Over three hours, the liturgy was almost entirely in Latin, as were the hymns sung by a choir of monks accompanied by a nun on an electric organ.
We arrived at noon and all was quiet, except for a small group of monks having a heated debate about their lunch options.
Later she reported that she could see three bodies of monks who had been trapped in the debris of a collapsed building.
A priory once stood on the site of Spinney Abbey Farm and, on still nights, spectral monks have been seen and heard chanting across the fen, and strange lights bob towards Spinney Bank.
