Scottish Beverages

A few Scottish Beverages for the Festive, or any other, Season. Try a few with family or friends.

Athole Brose
Auld Man's Milk
Birk Wine
Blenshaw
Caledonian Liquor
Caudle
Glasgow Punch
Harvest Drink
Heather Ale
Het Pint
Highland Bitters
Highland Cordial
Oatmeal Posset
Skeachan, or Treacle Ale
Scots Noyau
Stoorum
Toddy

An Old Highland Toast

Up with it, up with it, up with it!
Down with it, down with it, down with it!
Away from me, away from me, away from me!
Towards me, towards me, towards me!
Drink it off!
And no other shall ever drink from this glass again!

The proposer stands on his chair with one foot on the table, holding the glass in his right hand. He accompanies the toast with appropriate gestures, and at the last words, flings the glass over his left shoulder on to the floor, where it is shattered to atoms. I have seen it drunk thus in the Isle of Skye.