Captain Haddock: Loch Lomond distillery

Just thought I'd post this link to the real Loch Lomond distillery

You might notice that they have just released their last stocks of a special 1966 whisky. I think The Black Island was re-drawn in 1965 - could Tintin have been hanging onto the very tanker, before the whisky was laid down?

Coming from the North East, it is a little galling that Captain Haddock drank a Lowland whisky and not a Speyside, but still, it is interesting to know his tipple is for sale (although only in Germany, by the looks of it).

PS: I know that MT&LL-C suggested the name be used without realising there was an actual whisky, but as was said a Greenwich, Hergé loved coincidences!

FYI, in the first edition of the Swedish translations, it was the word Whisky was deemed too dangerous for small children. It was replaced with a word which losely translated means "party brew".
How silly is that?

LOL! Party brew actually conjures up a picture to me of something even stronger than whisky - made in a secret still or a bath-tub during prohibition - so I wonder what they were thinking of?

Do Swedes serve anything called party brew to children, thus taking the emphasis off the alcoholic nature of the Captain's drinking?

Or is the effect maybe closer to him using a slang word like "hooch" in English, where it would be in character, even if the drink he had was in fact a regular bottled whisky?

Really? I never saw that before, and I have quite a lot of Swedish Tintin albums.

-Gustav

Gustav,

The word used was Kalasmust. I don't have any copies myself but I believe it was when Carlsen IF published Tintin. I think I saw in The Secret of 'The Unicorn'.

Jock,
It's a made up word and it sounds really childish, something along the lines of punch served at a childrens' party. Not sinister at all, I'm afraid. it just a piece of the good old Swedish Big Brother mentality for you.

/fripp

Right, I figured it out. A couple of days ago DN (a Swedish newpaper) published an article about Tintin. In it the whole thing is explained. In the earliest translation (out of 3) it's party brew. Later, in the second edition, as well as the newest, it's whisky.


No, the closest thing to Kalasmust is Julmust, which is a type of soft drink we serve at Christmas.

-Gustav