The WHISKY Winston Churchill Drink Every Day

Everyone knows Churchill drank whisky all day. Almost nobody knows what was actually in the glass. It wasn't a rare single malt and it wasn't strong. It was a splash of Johnnie Walker at the bottom of a tall glass, topped right up with soda — so weak that people around him joked it barely tasted of whisky. His family called it the Papa Cocktail, and one glass could last him hours. Ten things about Churchill's whisky habit: the campaign in India where he trained himself to like a drink he couldn't stand, the doctor's note that got him through American Prohibition, the £600 bet he took and won in 1936, and the wartime memo telling his Minister of Food not to cut the barley for whisky — which every Scot who drinks a dram today owes a quiet nod. Plus how to pour one yourself at the end. Slàinte. #whisky #churchill #drink