£50 nip in Aberdeen

Published on 18/11/2004 00:15

ONE of Scotland’s best known pubs is charging £50 for a nip of whisky.

The Grill Bar in Aberdeen’s Union Street was one of the last pubs in Scotland to allow women through its doors and remained resolutely men-only until the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act in 1975.

Customers were left speechless yesterday when the Graham Watson, the owner of the bar, put a bottle of a rare 64-year-old Macallan on the shelf, valued at more than 1,200, with the price tag of 50 a nip.

Mr Watson explained that the high pricetag was down to the fact that the whisky had been distilled on New Year’s Day, 1940, at the Macallan Distillery at Craigellachie on Speyside during the Second World War, when whisky production had been severely curtailed. Grain supplies were so restricted that no whisky was produced in Scotland between 1943 and 1945.