"the 1930s, the firm began a long-running series of comic strip ads entitled ""The Adventures of Ba-Bru"" which ran in various local papers from April 1939 until October 1970. The last traces of this campaign, a large neon sign featuring Ba-Bru which stood in Union St above Glasgow Central railway station, was removed in 1983 and replaced with an illuminated display featuring the tagline ""Your Other National Drink"". Barr has a long-established gimmick associating Irn-Bru with Scottishness, stemming from the claim of it being Scotland's most popular soft drink. A tagline, ""Made in Scotland from girders"", was used for several"
"Glen's Vodka Glen's Vodka is a brand of vodka, owned and produced by the Loch Lomond Group, a Scottish company. It is produced from sugar beet at the Catrine Distillery in Ayrshire, Scotland, and is sold by drinks retailers across the UK. It is available in 50ml, 200ml, 350ml, 700ml, and 1 litre bottles. In July 2014, Glen's Vodka was reported to be the UK's second bestselling spirit. Glen's Vodka was launched in 1972. The brand was originally known as Grant's Vodka, but following a legal challenge was relaunched in 2003 as Glen's Vodka. In 2009, Glen's Vodka came first"
"Eleanor names her new cat Glen, ""after an old friend"". List of vodkas Glen's Vodka Glen's Vodka is a brand of vodka, owned and produced by the Loch Lomond Group, a Scottish company. It is produced from sugar beet at the Catrine Distillery in Ayrshire, Scotland, and is sold by drinks retailers across the UK. It is available in 50ml, 200ml, 350ml, 700ml, and 1 litre bottles. In July 2014, Glen's Vodka was reported to be the UK's second bestselling spirit. Glen's Vodka was launched in 1972. The brand was originally known as Grant's Vodka, but following a legal challenge"
"Glenfiddich Glenfiddich is a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky owned and produced by William Grant & Sons in Dufftown, Scotland. ""Glenfiddich"" means ""valley of the deer"" in Scottish Gaelic, which is why the Glenfiddich logo is a stag. Glenfiddich is the world's best-selling single-malt whisky and also the most awarded at the International Spirits Challenge. The Glenfiddich Distillery was founded in 1886 by William Grant in Dufftown, Scotland, in the glen of the River Fiddich. The Glenfiddich single malt whisky first ran from the stills on Christmas Day, 1887. In the 1920s, with prohibition in force in the USA, Glenfiddich"
"certain fruits and vegetables, are responsible for the health benefits because they slow down the deposit of harmful cholesterol on the artery walls."" Guinness ran an advertising campaign in the 1920s which stemmed from market research – when people told the company that they felt good after their pint, the slogan, created by Dorothy L. Sayers–""Guinness is Good for You"". Advertising for alcoholic drinks that implies improved physical performance or enhanced personal qualities is now prohibited in Ireland. Diageo, the company that now manufactures Guinness, says: ""We never make any medical claims for our drinks."" Guinness stout is available in"
"Nae Danger Nae Danger is an energy drink from Scotland. It is claimed to be the first and only carbonated energy drink to have been created, branded and manufactured in Scotland, which is contested with IrnBru32 which was released in 2006 by A.G. Barr. Released in August 2012, the drink is a creation of Ross Gourlay, a Scottish entrepreneur from Bishopbriggs. Gourlay hoped to gain a slice of the growing caffeinated drinks market and also encourage recognisable Scottish brands within the UK. There are two main flavours: Blue Raspberry and Red Blueberry. The can design includes the words ""Nae Danger"","
"with soda water and elderflower cordial. The ""Wall Street Journal"" described Hendrick's as the ""Best Gin in the World"" in 2003. Other spirit ratings organisations generally have been very complimentary as well. The San Francisco World Spirits Competition, for example, awarded two double gold, two gold, and three silver medals between 2005 and 2012. The Beverage Testing Institute gave the gin well-above-average scores of 93, 94 and 95 between 2007 and 2011. Hendrick's Gin Hendrick's Gin is a brand of gin produced by William Grant & Sons at the Girvan distillery, Scotland, and launched in 1999. In addition to the"
"New Jersey. By 1962 at least it was the world's highest selling gin. In 1984 British production was moved to Laindon in Essex. In 1998 production was moved to Fife in Scotland, where it remains to this day. From 2007-2011 then in 2014, British chef Gordon Ramsay was the commercial spokesman for Gordon's Gin. Every label and bottle top of Gordon's gin bears a depiction of a wild boar. According to legend a member of Clan Gordon saved the King of Scotland from the animal while hunting. According to the manufacturer, Gordon's gin is triple-distilled and contains juniper berries, coriander"
"Irn-Bru, Inca Kola and Thums Up; Thums Up sold out to Coca-Cola in 1993, and Inka Kola owners Corporación Lindley S.A. entered into a joint venture with Coca-Cola in 1999, giving up all rights to the name outside Peru) led to ongoing speculation that Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Inc. or its UK brand franchisee Britvic would attempt to buy A.G. Barr. In November 2012 AG Barr and Britvic announced a merger proposal, in July 2013 the merger collapsed when terms could not be agreed. Irn-Bru's advertising slogans used to be 'Scotland's other National Drink', referring to whisky, and 'Made in Scotland from"
"is an open award, with the public able to nominate anyone. The awards haven't been hosted since 2014. Glenfiddich Glenfiddich is a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky owned and produced by William Grant & Sons in Dufftown, Scotland. ""Glenfiddich"" means ""valley of the deer"" in Scottish Gaelic, which is why the Glenfiddich logo is a stag. Glenfiddich is the world's best-selling single-malt whisky and also the most awarded at the International Spirits Challenge. The Glenfiddich Distillery was founded in 1886 by William Grant in Dufftown, Scotland, in the glen of the River Fiddich. The Glenfiddich single malt whisky first ran"
"the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The Famous Grouse The Famous Grouse is a brand of blended Scotch whisky, first produced by Matthew Gloag & Son in 1896, and currently produced and owned by The Edrington Group. The single malt whiskies used in The Famous Grouse blend include the Edrington-owned Highland Park and The Macallan. Its emblem is the Red Grouse, Scotland's national game bird. It has been the highest selling whisky brand in Scotland since 1980. As a standard price blended Scotch whisky, its main competitors in its home market are Bell's, Teacher's and Grant's. The majority of its"
"groups. The practice ceased in 2009 when it sold off the Glen Moray brand. Glenmorangie has been the best selling single malt in Scotland almost continuously since 1983, and produces around 10 million bottles per annum, of which 6 to 6.5 million are sold in the UK. Globally, Glenmorangie has a 6% share of the single malt market. Glenmorangie's water source is the Tarlogie Springs, situated in the Tarlogie Hills above the distillery. Barley grain is supplied by Highland Grain Ltd, a co-operative of farmers in the area. The stills used, the tallest in Scotland at tall, with necks, are"
"in the UK as Frosted Shreddies, Coco Shreddies, and Honey Shreddies, and an orange-flavoured version of the Coco Shreddies has also become available recently. The former advertising slogan in the UK was: ""Keeps hunger locked up until lunch"". The advertising slogan for the Frosted and Coco Shreddies was: ""Too tasty for geeks"". In January 2012, boxes of Shreddies dating from the early 1970s were reported to be selling on eBay, after being discovered in a village shop. They were reported to have been selling for about £160 per box on eBay. Shreddies featured as a plot device in the Canadian"
"together outside a tent, from which flies a flag bearing the drink's slogan, ""Ready Aye Ready"". That was also the motto of the Frontier Force Rifles of the old British Indian Army, and the Frontier Force Rifles, now part of the Pakistan Army, still use the motto. In this context, the Scots word ""aye"" has the meaning of ""always"" rather than ""yes"", and indicates, in the case of the drink, that it is ""Ready Always Ready"" to be made. The original label, by William Victor Wrigglesworth, depicted a Sikh servant waiting on a kilted Scots soldier. The main feature of"
"of the event include Highlands and Islands Enterprise, BBC Scotland, MG Alba, Scottish Screen, STV and Bòrd na Gàidhlig. Although the deep-fried Mars bar is jokingly said to exemplify the modern Scottish diet, Scottish cuisine offers traditional dishes such as fish and chips, haggis, the Arbroath Smokie, salmon, venison, cranachan, the bannock, stovies, Scotch broth, tattie scone and shortbread. Scotland is also known for its Scotch whisky distilleries, as well as for Scottish beer. The soft drink Irn-Bru is cited by its manufacturer A.G. Barr as Scotland's 'other' national drink owing to its large market share in Scotland outselling major"
"a song bearing the lyrics ""here comes the Lilt Man"". In the late 1990s it was heavily promoted with advertisements featuring two Jamaican women, Blanche Williams and Hazel Palmer. They became known in the media as the ""Lilt Ladies"". Lilt Lilt is a brand of soft drink manufactured by The Coca-Cola Company and sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Gibraltar, and the Seychelles only. During the 1970s and 1980s, Lilt was promoted with the advertising slogan, ""the totally tropical taste"". Between 2008 and 2014, the Coca Cola company reduced the number of calories in the soda by 56% as part"
"girders', a reference to the rusty colour of the drink; though the closest one can come to substantiating this claim is the 0.002% ammonium ferric citrate listed in the ingredients. A limited edition Irn-Bru was released in autumn 2011. Packaged with a black and orange design, and with the signature man icon with an added image of a fire, Fiery Irn-Bru, had a warm, tingly feeling in the mouth once drunk. It featured the traditional Irn-Bru flavour with an aftertaste similar to ginger. Irn-Bru was also sold in reusable 750 ml glass bottles which, like other Barr's drinks, were able"
"worldwide mostly within Europe. A deal with Scottish Spar has meant that 15,000 cans were supplied to shops across the country. Nae Danger had already sold over half a million cans through independent retailers in only a few short months before they struck a deal with a major retailer. Nae Danger Nae Danger is an energy drink from Scotland. It is claimed to be the first and only carbonated energy drink to have been created, branded and manufactured in Scotland, which is contested with IrnBru32 which was released in 2006 by A.G. Barr. Released in August 2012, the drink is"
"main ingredients are sugar and pear juice concentrate). A.G. Barr, famous for Scottish soft drink Irn-Bru, produce a version of dandelion and burdock under the name D'n'B and the slogan ""Tall, dark and drinksome"". The last of the UK's original temperance bars, Fitzpatrick's in Rawtenstall, which opened in 1890, still produces its dandelion and burdock to an original recipe brought over from Ireland at the end of the 19th century. Mentioned in the title track for ""Suck It and See"" (2011) by Sheffield indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. Dandelion and burdock Dandelion and burdock is a beverage consumed in the"
"the slogan ""When I'm a burger, I want to be washed down with Irn-Bru"". This billboard resulted in over 700 complaints but was cleared by advertisement watchdogs. A billboard which featured a depressed goth and the slogan ""Cheer up Goth. Have an Irn Bru."" was also criticised for inciting bullying. McCowan's also produced Irn-Bru Bars, chewy, fizzy, bright orange confectionery bars which taste very strongly of Irn-Bru, though production ended in late 2005. Irn-Bru sorbet is available in some speciality ice cream shops in Scotland. The drink can be used as a mixer with alcoholic beverages, mainly vodka and whisky."
"""Double Glenmorangie on the rocks,"" is the drink that fictional character Conner MacLeod, played by Christopher Lambert, orders while in a bar in the 1986 film Highlander. Glenmorangie distillery Glenmorangie (pronounced with the stress on the second syllable: ; the toponym is believed to derive from either Gaelic ""Gleann Mòr na Sìth"" ""vale of tranquillity"" or ""Gleann Mór-innse"" ""vale of big meadows"") is a distillery in Tain, Ross-shire, Scotland, that produces single malt Scotch whisky. The distillery is owned by The Glenmorangie Company Ltd, whose main product is the range of Glenmorangie single malt whisky. Glenmorangie is categorised as a"
"Claytons Claytons is the brand name of a non-alcoholic, non-carbonated beverage coloured and packaged to resemble bottled whisky. It was the subject of a major marketing campaign in Australia and New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s, promoting it as ""the drink you have when you're not having a drink"" at a time when alcohol was being targeted as a major factor in the road death toll. The jingle was written by Australian social satirist, John McKellar. The product has not been advertised on television for 30 years (as of 2015), yet it remains widely known. The name has entered"
"in his grocer’s shop in Ayrshire, Scotland. In 1908, when James Stevenson was the managing director, there was a re-branding of sorts. The whisky was renamed from Walker's Kilmarnock Whiskies to Johnnie Walker Whisky. In addition, the slogan, ""Born 1820 – Still going Strong!"" was created, along with the Striding Man, a figure used in their advertisements to this day. In 2009, to much public backlash as well as backlash from the Scottish Government, First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond and local MP and MSP Cathy Jamieson and Willie Coffey, the owner of Johnnie Walker, Diageo, decided to close the"
"The Famous Grouse The Famous Grouse is a brand of blended Scotch whisky, first produced by Matthew Gloag & Son in 1896, and currently produced and owned by The Edrington Group. The single malt whiskies used in The Famous Grouse blend include the Edrington-owned Highland Park and The Macallan. Its emblem is the Red Grouse, Scotland's national game bird. It has been the highest selling whisky brand in Scotland since 1980. As a standard price blended Scotch whisky, its main competitors in its home market are Bell's, Teacher's and Grant's. The majority of its UK sales are during the Christmas"
"Fridge (advertisement) Fridge is a 2006 television and print advertising campaign launched by Diageo to promote canned Guinness-brand stout in the United Kingdom. The campaign was handled by advertising agency Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO. The television piece was directed by J J Keith, and shot in the Czech Republic. The television ad is a thirty-second comedic spot aimed at men in their twenties and thirties, revolving around the idea of a miniature bartender who lives in a refrigerator, serving drinks to purchasers of cans of Guinness stout. The idea behind the ad was to promote the cans as being just"
"spike in popularity. Kilkenny (beer) Kilkenny is a nitrogenated Irish cream ale from the makers of Guinness, which originated in Kilkenny, Ireland. The brand is managed and produced by Diageo. It is available in draught, bottles and cans. It is brewed in Ireland. Kilkenny is similar to Smithwick's Draught; however, it has less hop finish, and it has a nitrogenated cream head similar to Guinness. The 'Kilkenny' name was originally used during the 1980s and 1990s to market a stronger version of Smithwick's for the European and Canadian markets due to difficulty in pronunciation of the word 'Smithwick's'. It now"
"situations (goalkeeping, potting a black ball, best man's speech) where those seen in the advert would be next seen drinking Strongbow having ""earnt it"" for accomplishing such situations. The latest advert depicts a duplex-style apple orchard divided between bitter and sweet reflecting Strongbow being ""bittersweet by nature"". In 2015, Strongbow began its ""Cider at its Bestest"" campaign in the US, featuring Patrick Stewart. Strongbow were official shirt sponsors of Edinburgh football club Heart of Midlothian from 1992–2002. Strongbow also sponsored Leeds United Football Club from 2000–2003. Strongbow reputedly paid £3 million a year for the rights. Strongbow (cider) Strongbow is"
"the three become mudskippers around a green-brown puddle. The action briefly moves forward again to show the middle character registering his disgust at the taste of the water with a ""Pweugh!"" sound. The commercial ends with a transition to a product shot of three pints of Guinness accompanied by the strapline ""Good things come to those who wait"". Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO won the account for Guinness in 1996 with a campaign built on their new strapline ""Good things come to those who wait"". They produced several commercials using variations on the theme, including ""Swimblack"", ""Bet on Black"", and the"
"episode ""The Gang Runs for Office"". Cutty Sark (whisky) Cutty Sark is a range of blended Scotch whisky produced by Edrington plc of Glasgow, whose main office is less than ten miles from the birthplace of the famous clipper ship of the same name. The whisky was created on 23 March 1923 as a product of Berry Bros. & Rudd, with the home of the blend considered to be at The Glenrothes distillery in the Speyside region of Scotland. The name comes from the River Clyde–built clipper ship ""Cutty Sark"", whose name came from the Scots language term ""cutty-sark"", the"
"WKD Original Vodka WKD is a brand or marks of alcopop produced by Beverage Brands. It is sold and heavily marketed in the United Kingdom and Ireland with the slogan ‘Have you got a WKD side?’ (Have you got a wicked side?), and also in many countries in mainland Europe. AC Nielsen ranked it as the number-one UK ready-to-drink brand in 2006. All varieties currently contain 4% ABV. This was originally 5.5%, but it was changed to 5% in October 2003 and reduced to 4.5% on 25 July 2005. The drink was first marketed in Scotland under the name 'Wicked'"
"the refrain ""It's fizzy, it's ginger, it's phenomenal!"" It is a parody of ""High School Musical"", and stars Jack Lowden. In 2012 the company changed its slogan to ""gets you through"", which see a number of people drinking irn bru to get through tough situations. In response to the Coca-Cola 'Share a Coke' campaign, Barr decided to produce thousands of limited edition 750 ml bottles of ""Irn-Bru"" with the names 'Fanny', 'Senga', 'Rab' and 'Tam' on the label, mimicking that by ""Coca Cola"". The use of the name 'Fanny' ties in with one of ""Irn-Bru""'s controversial marketing advertisements. One of"
"Irn-Bru Irn-Bru ( ""iron brew"") is a Scottish carbonated soft drink, often described as ""Scotland's other national drink"" (after whisky). It is produced in Westfield, Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, by A.G. Barr of Glasgow, since moving out of their Parkhead factory in the mid-2000s. In 2011, Irn Bru closed their factory in Mansfield, making the Westfield plant in Cumbernauld the main location for production. In addition to being sold throughout the United Kingdom, Barr's Irn-Bru is available throughout the world and can usually be purchased where there is a significant community of people from Scotland. Innovative and sometimes controversial marketing campaigns"
"featuring prominently. A banner heads the can, reading: ""Scotland's favourite beer, only ever brewed at Wellpark Brewery, Glasgow"". The brand's super strength lager, Tennent's Super (9% ABV), is no longer produced by Wellpark and is produced in Luton by Inbev, who kept the brand after the sale of Wellpark to C&C. Caledonia Best was launched in November 2011, and uses 100% Scottish barley. Contract-brewed for Innis & Gunn The Tennent's brand is used for sponsoring music and sport including the Scotland's largest outdoor music festival: T in the Park. Tennent's previously sponsored T On The Fringe (part of the Edinburgh"