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My husband recalls his father, who grew up in Edinburgh and whose family had a roofing business (they were slaters - literally), being given whisky to warm him up after he came down off a distillery roof - he must have been all of 14 at the time. Whisky is a cure all! So my rather also believed!

Come this winter I really must make proper Irish Coffee again, have not had one in years... with Scotch Whisky. Irish spell whiskey with an 'e' trivial fact!