Public Warned Of Whiskey Fraud In Which People Insist They Like The Taste

GARDAÍ are seeking to alert the wider public to an elaborate whiskey fraud that has seen many people fall victim to purchasing expensive bottles of the spirit due to other people exaggerating and outright lying about how much they like the tipple.

“In an attempt to appear refined and urbane while projecting a debonair air, these scam artists claim their palate is exclusively stimulated by stuff off the top shelf. Be on the look out, as these fibbers can then lead you astray and convince you to drop €25 on a measure of awful tasting shite just so you don’t appear like an uncultured philistine,” explained head of the Garda Fraud Squad Tom Brennan.

“In the most disturbing cases we’ve seen some people live a lie for decades, they’ve been groomed by these scamming whiskey heads into convincing themselves they love the complex fully bodied taste of overpriced lighter fluid,” added Garda Brennan.

This warning is separate to an earlier appeal by gardaí over another whiskey scam which has seen Irish investors sold whiskey casks at vastly inflated prices or sold supposed high-end casks that do not exist at all by .

“Nonsense I just love the malty peaty full-malted-bodied malt-blended peat taste, always neat,” said one whiskey aficionado Jack Finnan, before audibly choking on his whiskey and suppressing the urge to spit it out.

“Smooth, oaky taste? It feels like I’ve got a washing machine full of bleach in my throat,” offered drinker Eoin Clifton who possessed the rare humility to admit he has the unrefined palette of a Buckfast binging teenager.

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