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It was, after all, an illegal dram shop during Prohibition and the need for secrecy was essential, especially since the queer patrons themselves were breaking the law by openly existing in public.

With bourbon, allspice dram, lime and bitters, it tasted dark, strong, warm and tropical simultaneously, a storm on an island, somehow ideal for being ensconced inside Daphnes on a rainy Edmonds autumn afternoon.

To him, spirits provided what he called “accessible luxury” to customers — a dram of the good life even in an unstable economy.

A wee dram would set visitors rocking around this final Christmas "tree" on the Isle of Raasay.

White has just played 90. b2-b3 when the dram really kicks in.