Know your whisky
🔺Glenfiddich is the world's best-selling single malt
🔺Johnnie Walker Red Label is the world's best-selling Scotch
🔺The Famous Grouse is the best-selling whisky in Scotland
🔺Glenmorangie is the best-selling single malt in Scotland.
🔺The world's fastest growing Scotch today is Black Dog. India is a major contributor to its sales.
🔺The five most popular single malts globally are Glenfiddich, The Glenlivet, Glenmorangie Original, Aberlour and Laphroaig
🔺Bruichladdich's The Octomore is the most heavily peated whisky in the world (167ppm)
🔺The three oldest single malts currently sold are Glenturret, Oban and Glenlivet
🔺The oldest distillery in Scotland is Glenturret (1775), followed by Bowmore (1779)
🔺With each bottle of Laphroaig that you buy, you are entitled to a lifetime lease of one sq foot of the distillery's land, along with a personalized certificate of ownership
🔺Cadenhead's Whisky Shop on Canongate, has a unique selling point: customers can have a bottle poured straight from a cask and labeled with their name. When sealed it has a label with the 'born on date', as whisky stops aging as soon as it leaves the wooden barrel, so each bottle is a unique blend.
🔺Edradour is the smallest distillery in Scotland. The entire operation is run by just three people
🔺The Glenmorangie distillery is one of the smallest in the Highlands and employs just sixteen craftsmen, called 'The Sixteen Men of Tain'
🔺The most expensive country in which to buy Scotch, ironically, is the UK, where it is made
🔺In the UK, its home country, the five most popular blended Scotch whiskies are The Famous Grouse, William Grant's, Bell's, Teacher's and J&B Rare. Note: Johnnie Walker does not feature in the list of best-selling blends in its home country.
🔺A closed bottle of Scotch can be kept for 100 years and still be good to drink. After opening, a bottle of Scotch whisky will remain good for five years.
🔺The Australian Wine Research Institute has introduced a measure called a standard drink. In Australia, a standard drink contains 10 g (12.67 ml) of alcohol, the amount that an average adult male can metabolize in one hour.
🔺Although their proof differs, standard drinks of beer, wine and spirits contain the same amount of alcohol – 0.6 ounces each. They're all the same to a breathalyzer.
🔺18,000 litres of Scotch whisky worth over $800,000 were accidentally flushed down the drain at Chivas Brothers' Dumbarton bottling plant in 2013.
🔺Experts advise you to drink single malt with just a dash of water. The water supposedly 'releases the serpent' from the whisky
🔺If there is a serpent, there is also an angel. As it ages, 2-2.5 % of the whisky maturing in a barrel is lost to evaporation every year. Distillers refer to this as the 'angel's share'.
🔺There is also a devil. The whisky absorbed by the wood of barrel during maturation is known as the 'devil's cut'
🔺Indian 'whisky' is technically flavoured rum, because it's essentially made from sugar
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POWER OF MONEY
*Extremely interesting & Must Read*
*POWER OF MONEY*
By Adam Khoo ( Singapore 's youngest millionaire at 26 yrs.)
Some of you may already know that I travel around the region pretty frequently, having to visit and conduct seminars at my offices in Malaysia , Indonesia , Thailand and Suzhou ( China ) . I am in the airport almost every other week so I get to bump into many people who have attended my seminars or have read my books.
Recently, someone came up to me on a plane to KL and looked rather shocked. He asked, 'How come a millionaire like you is traveling economy?' My reply was, 'That's why I am a millionaire. ' He still looked pretty confused.
This again confirms that greatest lie ever told about wealth (which I wrote about in my latest book 'Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires'). Many people have been brainwashed to think that millionaires have to wear Gucci, Hugo Boss, Rolex, and sit on first class in air travel. This is why so many people never become rich because the moment they earn more money, they think that it is only natural that they spend more, putting them back to square one.
The truth is that most self-made millionaires are frugal and only spend on what is necessary and of value. That is why they are able to accumulate and multiply their wealth so much faster.
Over the last 7 years, I have saved about 80% of my income while today I save only about 60% (because I have my wife, mother in law, 2 maids, 2 kids, etc. to support). Still, it is way above most people who save 10% of their income (if they are lucky).
I refuse to buy a first class ticket or to buy a $300 shirt because I think that it is a complete waste of money. However, I happily pay $1,300 to send my 2-year old daughter to Julia Gabriel Speech and Drama without thinking twice.
When I joined the YEO (Young Entrepreneur's Orgn) a few years back (YEO is an exclusive club open to those who are under 40 and make over $1m a year in their own business), I discovered that those who were self-made thought like me. Many of them with net worth well over $5 m, travelled economy class and some even drove Toyotas and Nissans, not Audis, Mercs, BMWs..
I noticed that it was only those who never had to work hard to build their own wealth (there were also a few ministers' and tycoons' sons in the club) who spent like there was no tomorrow. Somehow, *when you did not have to build everything from scratch, you do not really value money. This is precisely the reason why a family's wealth (no matter how much) rarely lasts past the third generation*
Thank God my rich dad foresaw this terrible possibility and refused to give me a cent to start my business.
Then some people ask me, 'What is the point in making so much money if you don't enjoy it?' The thing is that I don't really find happiness in buying branded clothes, jewellery or sitting first class. Even if buying something makes me happy it is only for a while, it does not last.
^Material happiness never lasts, it just gives you a quick fix*. After a while you feel lousy again and have to buy the next thing which you think will make you happy. I always think that if you need material things to make you happy, then you live a pretty sad and unfulfilled life..
Instead, *what makes me happy is*
when I see my children laughing and playing and learning so fast.
What makes me happy is when I see my companies and trainers reaching more and more people every year in so many more countries.
What makes me really happy is when I read all the emails about how my books and seminars have touched and inspired someone's life.
What makes me really happy is reading all your wonderful posts about how this blog is inspiring you. *This happiness makes me feel really good for a long time, much much more than what a Rolex would do for me.*
I think the point I want to put across is that* happiness must come from doing your life's work (be it teaching, building homes, designing, trading, winning tournaments etc.)*and the money that comes is only a by-product.
*Save this message to read it from time to time*
THE POWER OF MONEY
Be PRACTICAL
Be REALISTIC
Be MILLIONAIRE
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