4,755 gallons of Chivas Regal accidently flushed down a drain in Scotland

[kwassa]

I wonder how it will affect the fish downstream. Will they have a party?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/02/28/scotch-flushed-down-drain/1955223/

The night shift at a Chivas Brothers distillery screwed up this week and accidentally flushed about 6,000 gallons of Scotch whisky down the drain, according to reports from Scotland.

The 80-proof goof happened early Tuesday at a bottling plant in Dumbarton, where workers were cleaning equipment. Instead of purging the waste water, they instead expelled 18,000 liters of bulk whisky into the local sewage system.

"It was like someone turned on a tap and it just ran straight down the plughole," an "insider" toldThe Scottish Sun.

No one at Chivas noticed until 11 a.m., but local sewage crews had gotten a good whiff of the scotch-and-water problem and were attempting to identify the source long before the distiller reported what had happened.

[In_The_Wind]

1. Damn! Now the price will probably go up!

[TexasTowelie]

2. Oh noes!!!

[Ptah]

3. Wait. What?

18000 liters - 4755 US gallons

6000 US gallons - 22,712 liters




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[kwassa]

5. I quoted the figure they put in their headline.

I wondered a bit about that myself, but was too lazy to do the conversion.

Still a shitload of Scotch.

[Ptah]

12. One shitload lost.

[Turbineguy]

28. Imperial gallons

[Moondog]

4. Drunk again . . . .

[undeterred]

6. So the sewage was pretty drunk, I guess.

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[madinmaryland]

11. I assume you must be on a plane heading over there. Happy drinking!!

[ConcernedCanuk]

18. I concur

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[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. Och jobby

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Someone is so fired.

[Kennah]

10. Shit's gonna hit the fan when Kramer hears about this

[Major Nikon]

13. Thank dog it was foreign whiskey

If it were bourbon I'd be grabbing a bucket and heading for the creek.

[Mopar151]

25. Perhaps we should repair to Kentucky and await developments........

Or we could crawl under a barrel house with a bell hanger's drill and that bucket of creek water.......

[OriginalGeek]

14. meh. Chivas.

lol.


my snob bone is showing.

[kwassa]

15. If it was Balvenie Doublewood I would be more upset.

[OriginalGeek]

16. I would weep!

or, at the very least, hold a silent memorial service.

[geardaddy]

38. I concur

meh.

[Ikonoklast]

39. Q: How does one tell when there is Chivas Regal in the sewer system?

A: The sewage smells WORSE.

[Aerows]

17. Maybe the workers were

dipping into the product and that's why the accident happened? That's a hell of a mistake to make.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

20. My grandfather died by falling in and drowning in a vat of whiskey.

Two men jumped in to save him but he fought them off.

[In_The_Wind]

22. good point

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. Many years ago a friend and I were hitchhiking through Scotland

and at one point we hitched a ride with a guy somewhere in the Highlands. So we're going through this little town and suddenly catch the unmistakable smell of Scotch. A little bit up the road we see a huge wooden barrel lying broken open in the street (apparently it fell off a lorry), and a large quantity of whisky (that's how they spell it) flowing along the gutter. A lot of people were standing around looking sad.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

21. Don't just stand there. Grab a cup!!

[kentauros]

23. Good riddance!

Now if it was Tito's Handmade Vodka, I'd be upset!

[In_The_Wind]

24. !!!

now now

in the wind drinks scotch

[kentauros]

32. Yeah, but I don't drink it!

Never have seen what the big deal was with the stuff. Then again, I don't drink any liquor straight. Too strong for my throat. I'll take a good margarita any day in its place

[bluesbassman]

26. Local reaction caught on film...

[applegrove]

27. My dad will have to be informed of

such a human tragedy.

[jmowreader]

29. In other news...

18,000 liters of cleaning water were bottled and sold as whisky. Said Angus Scott, who accidentally purchased and drank a bottle of it, "I thought it tasted a bit weak."

[RILib]

30. At least it wasn't chocolate

that would have been a real tragedy.

I suppose there will be many more baby fishes in the fish equivalent of nine months.

[kentauros]

42. Yeah, a chocolate spill on that scale

would have a tragedy of the First Order. Losing a little bit of easily fermented alcohol isn't much to notice, really...





Although, it is a good thing it wasn't a molasses spill

[lunatica]

31. Oh fuck! It was 80 proof too?!!

arg! Just arg.

[whistler162]

33. And in other news.... Scottish police at Loch Ness report

pulling over Nessie for SWD, swimming while drunk.

[Paladin]

34. Damn It To Hell. That's A Waste Of Some Decent Whisky. (nt)

[yellowcanine]

35. Hmm. One wonders if workers were "sampling the product" before the mishap?

I guess by the time management found out what happened it was too late for blood alcohol tests. Funny how that works.

[Bake]

36. Oh, the humanity!!!

A tragic loss!



Bake

[NV Whino]

37. Thank god it wasn't single malt!

[yellowcanine]

40. That could explain this......

[malthaussen]

41. Best [place for it.

That stuff is crap.

-- Mal