A Wee Dram

We are the first to admit that a little learning is a dangerous thing and when you turn us loose thinking about something....well head for the hills.  At our Irish Whiskey tasting this afternoon, we are featuring soda bread and a wee dram of  JL Sullivan - plus for the first 50 or so folks who drop in, a free CD of Irish music courtesy of a couple of our good friends up the road.  In our very poor faux Irish accent we have been inviting folks in for "a wee dram" until our perpetual good friend popped in and said, "A DRAM is composition of all the different spirits sold in a dram-shop, collected in a vessel into which the drainings of the bottles and quartering pots are emptied".   Well that took the very wind out of our sales (pun intended), let me tell you.
So we woke up early this morning mulling over our new found knowledge and did a bit of reading.  Seems that a dram is a very very small measure - something like 60 grains or 1/16th of an ounce. The word comes from the old unit of currency, the drachma. Way too much?  Wait wait there is more.

We thought about how this got to be applied to Irish whiskey and up popped: measure, shot (informal), drop, glass, tot, slug, snort (slang), snifter (informal) a dram of whisky. 

We are going to stick with "pour a wee dram"...rather than drop in for a snort. 3-6pm. 132 Front.