Gaellery’s Hotel room whisky and gin dispenser. Push in the drawer, pull out, and find a tiny bottle of booze. Just like those movies you claim you didn’t watch, it’s automatically charged to your bill.

John McCain’s election team apparently told staff at The Phoenix Biltmore to have extra whisky on hand for their election party tonight. They’re not just planning to drown their sorrows: Republicans and Republican-leaning independents drink more whisky than the national average.

Sweet photo by Bearfaced, though I almost used this picture of barrels (or this one).

God bless William Faulkner for pointing it out:

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

food, paper, quote, supplies, tobacco, tools of the trade, whisky, William Faulkner, writer, writing

Chivas, the folks who bring us Chivas Regal scotch whisky and virtual tours of the Playboy Mansion, is looking for a pair of ambassador editors for ThisIsTheLife.com.

The deal pays $100,000 to the lucky pair to tour the world making good press and pictures for the brand. You’ve got six more days to put together the three-minute application video, so get on it.

Thanks to Gadling for the link.

tags: application, brand ambassador, chivas, chivas life, chivas life ambassador, chivas regal, contest, scotch, scotch whisky, this is the life, whisky

In a popular antebellum Arkansas story, a backwoodsman bought a 5-gallon barrel of whiskey, only to return a week later for another.

“Surely you haven’t drank that whiskey already?” inquired the astonished merchant.

“It ain’t so much,” replied the backwoodsman. “There are six of us, counting the kids, and we have no cow.”

It’s not quite as detailed as some of the stories in the Foxfire books, but it’s a good treat.

tags: alcohol, arkansas, arkansas history, backwoodsman, foxfire, history, john barleycorn, moonshine, moonshining, prohibition, sourmash, whiskey