What is the surprising relationship between movies and whisky? ?

"Angel's Share" (12)

Rebuild your life with single malt

Director: Ken Loach Starring: Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw

During the process of aging whiskey, wooden barrels inevitably evaporate and lose their content. At the distillery, the reduced amount is called the "Angels' Share."

Director Ken Loach continues to focus on youth poverty and social issues with a neorealist approach, including in films such as Kes (1969) and SWEET SIXTEEN (2002). The director's ``Angel's Share'' is a work in which the main character is a young man struggling in poverty who tries to overcome his circumstances through the ``Angel's Share'' of whisky.

Among Ken Loach's filmography, in which he confronts difficult circumstances and confronts reality, this film has many comical scenes, and the finish leaves a refreshing aftertaste.

Paul Brannigan, who plays the main character Robbie in this work, comes from a poor family in Glasgow, where this work is set, and this is his debut. Both of her parents were drug addicts, and the scar on her cheek is real. In addition, he served four years in prison for a gun dispute, so he is the ``real deal'' so to speak.

Many other "real things" appear in this work. This work is filled with a wealth of information about whisky, including ``Springbank 32 Years Old'', a tour of Glengoyne Distillery, whiskey authority Charles MacLean, and his talk about whiskey refining.

The malt mill whiskey that plays a particularly important role also has a deep and complex background. ``Malt Mill Whiskey, the only barrel left at Balblair Distillery'' itself is fiction. However, ``Malt Mill Distillery'' and ``Balblair Distillery'' do exist, and if you know their origins and history, you will realize that there are people who would want to drink them even if they spend a huge amount of money. be. At the same time, it adds a whiskey lover's fantasy of ``What if something like this happened...?''

What attracts many people in this work is the single malt whisky. It is bottled using only malted barley and whiskey from one distillery. The malt used as the raw material, as well as the location, water, type of wood in the barrel, fuel used during distillation, and the shape of the kettle all affect the taste, resulting in a whiskey that is unique to each distillery.

In particular, the whiskey that appears in this work, made at a distillery on the Scottish island of Islay, has a ``peaty'' (smoky smell), ``medicinal'' (medicinal) aroma from the peat used to dry the malt. It seems that it will have a strong personality such as ``smell like that''.

In the movie, Robbie's first impression of the single malt ``Springbank 32 Years Old'' is ``Wow, what is this? Can I mix it with cola?'', so it is not suitable for ``beginners'' to drink it all at once. You can see that it has its own personality. However, the more types you drink, the more unique the drinks become.

Affinity between movies and whiskey