![]() ![]() And so, I called him up and said, 'Hey, I really like what you're doing, and if there's anything that I could fit in, then let's talk." So, I was viewing everything of first-time directors, and I saw this movie, 'Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels,' by this cat named Guy Ritchie. "At that time, I did something that I felt was very commercial, and I was really interested to see what new directors were doing and what was coming out. Pitt elaborated on the story (via Landmark Cinemas): "He called me and told me that he wanted to be part of whatever I was doing next." It was around this time that Brad Pitt was establishing himself as a major Hollywood star, after a high profile starring role in "Seven" and a zany Oscar-nominated supporting turn in "12 Monkeys." So how did he end up playing the "pikey" in Ritchie's next caper? "Snatch" was Guy Ritchie's follow up to "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels," a right royal Cockney barrel of monkeys that came out of nowhere in '98 and became an instant cult favorite. You can't really understand much of what is being said. "Now there is a problem with pikeys or gypsies. As Jason Statham's character Turkish says, using a slang term that reflects the British public's general aversion to travelers: To be fair, he had it a little easier because Mickey is almost completely unintelligible. ![]() ![]() About 1,200 cases have been released, so this shouldn’t be as hard to find as some other limited-edition releases so you can try for yourself to see how this rye whiskey stands up to over two decades in a barrel.Pitt fared better a few years later in Guy Ritchie's "Snatch," where he played a showy role as Irish traveler and bare-knuckle boxer Mickey "One Punch" O'Neil. The bottle is black, like the other Lock Stock & Barrel expressions, and comes in a wooden box charred in the Japanese Shou Sugi Ban process, a technique used to preserve wood. The packaging of this whiskey is fetching, as it should be when you’re dropping at least half a grand. Notes of citrus, pepper, fruit and some vanilla balance it out, making this a very nice sipper. ![]() You get that heat on the palate, and of course there’s a bit of tannic smoky oak, but it’s not a punch in the face. The technical details of this whiskey are that it was distilled in copper pot stills from a mash bill of 100 percent rye in 1999, aged in new charred oak barrels and bottled at 111 proof. A 21-year-old Kentucky or Indiana rye might be good, but the odds are not in its favor. And that’s why this whiskey tastes good even with over two decades of maturation-aging in the cooler climate up north means less interaction between whiskey and wood. The distillery is undisclosed, but Alberta Distillers is a likely suspect, as it is for WhistlePig and many other brands that release Canadian rye. Speaking of which, the whiskey could really be called “whisky” since it’s sourced from Canada, or “cold weather matured” as the brand puts it. The Stars From 'The Vampire Diaries' Are Following Up Their Stellar Bourbon With a New Rye How to Make a Penicillin, the Most Successful New Whiskey Cocktail of the Millennium (So Far) A Vietnamese Activist Mocked a Government Official’s Gold-Crusted Steak and Got 5 Years in Jail ![]()
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