Talk:The MacAbre

Actually, a fairly comprehensive list shows only two malts named after "Macs", the Macallan and Macduff. (Gordon & MacPhail is a négociant-bottler of other peoples' whiskies, as I believe Bearhugger's does with the Macabre.) There are thirty-one malts starting with "Glen". --Old Dickens 15:39, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

MacAbre might also be a reference to the Scottish or quasi-Scottish nature of Jimkin Bearhugger's products, being a homonym for "Ma caber"; or "My caber" pronounced with a Scottish accent. A caber is a long, stout pole, similar to a telegraph pole, used in a sporting event at Scottish Highland Games, where participants have to toss the caber in the air, flipping it end over end. The winner is the contestant who throws the caber the greatest distance. --Ericthehalfabee 17:00, 6th May 2020 (UTC)

On one hand, Eric, I think the annotation on the project page is far more likely; reading caber tossing into this whiskey name seems a bit much when the plain meaning of macabre is right there. Occam’s razor and such.  :-). That said, I am quite familiar with caber toss now! A student had been working on a physics thesis project involving the caber toss! The question is, how does toss distance depend on the running speed before launch, and on the pure force applied at launch? Experiments interrupted by invisible biting creatures, alas...Moishe Rosenbaum (talk) 21:31, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Oh, ay. I don't think Walt Kelly's Sarcophagus MacAbre had any connection to highland games either. --Old Dickens (talk) 22:42, 10 May 2020 (UTC)