Scotland Correspondent Issue 39

Food & Beverage - Skailg: A wee livener... by Tom Morton

Skailg:

A wee livener...

by Tom Morton

Those whisky mornings

A

sharp blow to the head. That’s the literal translation of the wonderful Gaelic word

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Skailg, used more often to refer to the (not exclusively) Hebridean tradition of consuming a dram of whisky in the morning. A wee

livener, as more lowland Scots may refer to it.

I was introduced to this procedure