Scotland Runnin' on Whiskey. Literally.

Those inventive Scots have done it again. Not content to power themselves with whiskey, the plaid-clad tinkerers are going to power their electrical grid with the water of life. Approval has been granted for a group of distillers to build a biomass-fueled power plant Speyside. The biomass of course being the whiskey mash and related by products of the distilling process. When operational, the plant should generate about 7.2 megawatts.

Never mind the arguments over green power and climate change, I say this is the future. The more we imbibe, the more we can consume, so to speak. Seriously, though, this is innovation - doing more with what we have at hand, and what was before basically waste. I think I'll go open another bottle of Black Label to help make sure the project gets off to a good start.

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Noooooooooooooooo!!!

Cue cheesy horror-movie music and a freaked out guy/girl huddled in a corner plaintively repeating "This isn't happening, this isn't happening."

From the AP (via FoxNews):

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Here's a sobering thought: Hundreds of bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey, some of it almost 100 years old, may be unceremoniously poured down a drain because authorities suspect it was being sold by someone without a license.

...Tennessee law requires officials to destroy whiskey that cannot be sold legally in the state, such as bottles designed for sale overseas and those with broken seals.

The story quotes the Executive Director of the Tenn. Alcoholic Beverage Commission on the prospect of dumping poor Mr. Daniels down the drain thusly, "It'd kill me."

My sentiments exactly. And I'm not a huge Jack Daniels drinker. I much prefer single malt scotch, but good liquor deserves respect dammit! Frankly, this is destroying a piece of America. It might be time for another whiskey rebellion.

Picture from Ludwig Von Mises Institute. Learn more about how Americans react to unjust treatment of their distilled spirits here.