Dimple Pinch: The Final Drink Of Walter H. White (*Breaking Bad Spoilers*)

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Sometimes, things don’t go your way. Sometimes—SPOILER ALERT—you’re the subject of a nationwide manhunt, you’ve fled to frosty New Hampshire, and you’re about to intentionally reveal your location to your family and law enforcement officials. It’s times like these that you’d probably turn to a glass of whiskey. And if you’re Walter White on Breaking Bad, you’d probably make it Dimple Pinch, neat.

On last night’s penultimate episode of the AMC series, a gaunt Walt perched on a barstool and did just that. The moment will almost certainly rocket-launch the blended Scotch into the boozy universe of iconic TV and film drinks: the Dude’s White Russian, Patrick Bateman’s Corona with J&B straight, Hannibal Lechter’s Chianti. But for the liquor nerds watching—the kind of boozy, fact-checking gestapo whose sights are more commonly trained on shows like Mad Men—the order was a dangling carrot for examining the Breaking Bad world of whiskey.

Dimple Pinch, for those not familiar, is an extremely mild blended whiskey with a few centuries’ worth of roots in Scotland. It’s produced by Haig, a company that’s been around since at least 1655 when, according to common lore, founder Robert Haig was scolded by the church for distilling on the Sabbath. Dimple Pinch’s unmistakable triangle-shaped bottle was patented in 1958—actually the first glass container to be registered as a trademark in the United States.

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