Summer Wine Booze Question

[Bora Natty]

I was just watching the trilogy when Compo passed on Gold the last couple of days. Truly is at Clegg's and they have a drink of whiskey, would anybody know the brand? I've tried to get it, but without a DVR, I'm not having much luck..

 

[theatrically_inclined]

Well, here's half an answer!





The wording "McBain's" is clearly visible at the top of the label, but the rest is not clear.
Stewart McBain Ltd is a whisky bottler - they buy from a distillery and sell under their own name.
There is a specialist whisky shop called "L & C McBain".
Dennis McBain was a coppersmith at a distillers 50 years ago, whose recollections of working there are used in promotional material for a £9,000 bottle produced by The Balvenie.
There is also Bain's, a South African whisky brand.

The simple bottle and understated design of the label - and the fact I have looked at 100's of whisky bottles without seeing anything like it - tends to lead to the conclusion that it is possibly a "fake" brand.

 

[Adanor]

I was just watching the trilogy when Compo passed on Gold the last couple of days. Truly is at Clegg's and they have a drink of whiskey, would anybody know the brand? I've tried to get it, but without a DVR, I'm not having much luck..

Whatever it was, I take it that it was actually whisky.

 

[Adrian Morris]

Whatever it was, I take it that it was actually whisky.

Well, here's half an answer!

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The wording "McBain's" is clearly visible at the top of the label, but the rest is not clear.
Stewart McBain Ltd is a whisky bottler - they buy from a distillery and sell under their own name.
There is a specialist whisky shop called "L & C McBain".
Dennis McBain was a coppersmith at a distillers 50 years ago, whose recollections of working there are used in promotional material for a £9,000 bottle produced by The Balvenie.
There is also Bain's, a South African whisky brand.

The simple bottle and understated design of the label - and the fact I have looked at 100's of whisky bottles without seeing anything like it - tends to lead to the conclusion that it is possibly a "fake" brand.

If it was a "fake" brand maybe it was a Chinese whisky?.

 

[Roger]

I won't be a real bottle of whisky, just a prop.

 

[captain clutterbuck]

Whatever it was, I take it that it was actually whisky.

Imagine it was, a glass each and they would have been slurring their words , forgetting their lines and the scene would take days to shoot . Very rare they use alcohol on a show for that very reason.

 

[maltrab]

The few times I have been involved in pub scenes, it was always non alcoholic beer etc used

 

[wstol]

They say that in The Likely Lads, real beer was actually used.

I believe that due to re-takes, Rodney Bewes estimated he drank something like nine pints of beer on one episode.

(I'll check the figure somewhen.)

 

[WellyMan]

Whatever it was, I take it that it was actually whisky.

I think they use either tea or apple juice for prop drinks like whisky.

 

[captain clutterbuck]

The few times I have been involved in pub scenes, it was always non alcoholic beer etc used

It takes a composite actor/actress to make drinking non-alcoholic drinks or indeed cold tea often used to replace ale look a pleasant experience

 

[theatrically_inclined]

Whatever it was, I take it that it was actually whisky.

I think the viscosity of the liquid looks very genuine - and in a later scene when Peter Sallis is looking out of the window, realising it is dawn - he does sound a bit sloshed! Also, he was inevitably emotional, grieving for his friend, Bill Owen.

 

[Bora Natty]

Thank you for all of the help, you're good mates! I'm narrowing this down and I want to try and get a bottle. If it's Scotch whiskey though, I'll pass. I can't stand the stuff, but, being it was on the show, I might give it a go?

 

[Onslow]

Not a Tennessee whiskey. Not from Kentucky as most everything there is bourbon.

 

[Roger]

It's not whiskey, it's whisky without the e, scotch whisky.

 

[RickAns]

I remember in one of my Coupling comedy episodes during a Director's Commentary audio track. They mentioned the guys drank real beer in the bar scenes while the ladies drank colored water in their wine glasses.

 

[wstol]

I think the viscosity of the liquid looks very genuine - and in a later scene when Peter Sallis is looking out of the window, realising it is dawn - he does sound a bit sloshed! Also, he was inevitably emotional, grieving for his friend, Bill Owen.

He was also a damned good actor, and with all these factors present, made one of tv's most poignant moments.

 

[Adrian Morris]

Imagine it was, a glass each and they would have been slurring their words , forgetting their lines and the scene would take days to shoot . Very rare they use alcohol on a show for that very reason.

I would like to think that the bottle was fake but the drink was real to allow them to properly give Bill Owen a send off on screen.

 

[Bora Natty]

It's not whiskey, it's whisky without the e, scotch whisky.

Thanks Roger, I looked at the snaps again and I see that now. I did a bit of looking and don't see anything so far other than a place in the UK selling miniatures and most of them are $12 and $13 U.S. at least I didn't see the pound notation. I really want that exact whisky <--- (notice the spelling by the way) That Clegg and Truly had if at all possible. I can't imagine a 1/5 price, if a miniature is that much?

 

[Graham]

Clegg and Truly had if at all possible

That would be a Great tribute to them all Bora. We should all raise a glass for all the enjoyment that they've given us.

 

[Bora Natty]

Ta Graham!