Scotchy, scotch scotch

Thanks to my mom's almost relentless activity on Ancestry.com, we know that her family is almost all from the Isles, and mostly Scotland at that.  (This may explain the freckles and allergy to the sun).  Scotch, or whisky, has been produced in Scotland for hundreds of years. The Gaelic "usquebaugh", meaning "Water of Life", phonetically became "usky" and then "whisky" in English. 

My dad, the actual Scotch addict in the family, is all question-mark, so who knows where he gets his penchant for this delicious amber drink.  He prefers the Glen-'s, while I am a Jack fan myself.  We think he could be Black Irish, with the black hair and sapphire eyes, so that would fit, no?

In addition to its primary use as a drunk-maker, researchers in Scotland have discovered a possible use for the waste created in the distilling process: biofuel!  This is amazing to me.  One article I read said that Scotch-distilling is the most energy (carbon) intensive in all of beveragedom.  If they can nearly or completely offset that activity by burning and selling biofuel, well then Scotch really is a miracle liquid.

Also?  They normally just dump the waste in the sea (!), so now they will be less polluting as well.  Cheers!

So help the environment and have a Jack and water on the rocks on me!  Or with me. Wait, why haven't you bought me a drink yet??