Who would live in a Kirk?

[GR2]

It is actually quite unlikely that the malt was going into the production of whisky at this period. Ale is a more likely candidate.

[Lodger]

If he's in Scotland, he's turning it into whisky, not whiskey! The spelling with 'e' is reserved for the Irish and North American variety - in Scotland, there is no 'e' in whisky

There's no ice either 

Kirkton is the explanation, it would have derived from Kirk Town. Most parishes had one and, there are examples of Mill Town in many country parishes, usually known as Milton.

[Forfarian]

There's no ice either 

Indeed. Nor soda, ginger, lemonade, orange juice or any other mixer. The only thing to put in a good malt whisky is more good malt whisky.

[Lodger]

Well, that's ok for you hard-drinking Airdrie folks but, to be honest, I quite like a little soda in blended whisky and for malt I always have the same measure in not too cold tap water, it releases the flavours. I've just finished an 18 year-old Glenlivet and it was nectar! I spun it out, a glass or twa at the weekends but it's gone now - boo hoo.

[Skoosh]

A teaspoon of water in a malt, Lagavulin if somebody else is on the bell. 

Skoosh.

[Mike in Cumbria]

It's all Scotch to me 

Not to me, however. I would never use the word 'Scotch' to mean whisky*. I might order a dram, or a whisky or (far more likely) specify a particular malt whisky.

*I might use it as an adjective to describe Scotch whisky, a Scotch egg, a Scotch mist or just possibly a Scotch thistle (by which I would mean a thistle native to Scotland, not the introduced non-native Onopordum acanthium, which is what you would get if you went to a garden centre and asked for a Scotch Thistle).

Not forgetting the Scotch pie of course. Heart attack wrapped in pastry.

[Forfarian]

to be honest, I quite like a little soda in blended whisky and for malt I always have the same measure in not too cold tap water, it releases the flavours.

I'd put some plain water in a blended whisky, and probably also in a cask strength malt.

[Viktoria]

 Just to digress a little here`s   another idiosyncrasy--
 ---men do not wear a kilt they wear the kilt.So I am told by one who knows!   Viktoria

[Lodger]

My grannie, an Oban woman whose maternal grandfather was a master kilt maker (he only employed one other man but a "master" just the same) always spoke about the kilt in the plural, she would admire a man wearing "the kilts".