Today Is...World Whisky (Whiskey) Day

There is some confusion over Whisky, Whiskey, Scotch and Bourbon but it is essentially all the same thing, fermented grains with some yeast thrown into the vat at some point and then it goes into a barrel and 12 years later you've got whisky, whiskey or Scotch or Bourbon. It's just that simple.
Whiskey (or Whisky) means 'water of life' in Irish which says a whole lot about our Irish cousins but not as much as the story behind the Great Dublin Whiskey Fire of June, 1875.
A fire began at Malone’s, a malthouse and storeroom in the Irish Capital and as the The storeroom contained upwards of 5,000 barrels of highly flammable Whiskey and thousands of wooden barrels filled with a flammable substance and surrounded by fire, it was never going to end well.
Casks burst and the flaming booze spilled everywhere, flooding out of the warehouse doors, spilling down the narrow neighbouring streets like a flaming alcoholic river where the Irish Examiner picks up the story and says: 'It should be mentioned that in some of the streets through which much of the liquor from the stores ran, many of the crowd indulged to excess, drinking in some instances out of their shoes and hats, in which they had collected the whiskey.'
Thirteen people died, but none of the deaths were from burning or smoke inhalation, they were all from alcohol poisoning, as booze-thirsty Dubliners lapped up the free whiskey from the street and drank themselves to death.
My choice of Whiskey would be Jack Daniels which is very smooth and can technically be termed as a bourbon but it's maker's insist that it is a Tennessee Whiskey but the people of Lynchburg, Tennessee where it is made will just have to take my word for it, the county has been dry since prohibition so not a drop of alcohol can be bought or sold within its boundaries although the rules don't count on the Jack Daniel’s Distillery premises.