Some John Barleycorn Whisky With Your Haggis On Burns Night?

If you reside in Scotland, portions of Ireland, UK or New Zealand, chances are you have already planned your Burns Night activities when you will be employing the whisky and haggis ploy as a means to celebrate Scottish poet Robert Burns. If, by chance, you haven’t procured your whisky of choice yet, then the Scotch Malt Whisky Society has you in mind when they announced the release of an 11-year-old single malt from a first-fill ex-Bourbon barrel named “John Barleycorn was a hero bold” in honor of Burns and one of his more famous poems, “John Barleycorn: A Ballad” – but you will have to be a member of the Society to get access to one of the 233 bottles of John Barleycorn. Membership will cost you $200 and the 58.5% alcohol contented John Barleycorn itself will add another $82 to the bill.

Burns Night – for the uninitiated – is a celebration of Burns held on his birthday [January 25] and that usually includes fair amounts of whisky and haggis.