The debate over how to properly drink scotch can get quite heated. All sides will at some point claim that the way to truly taste the complexity of a given scotch is to add in 1/5 the amount of water, or never dilute the holy drink with water, or to add in just a couple clear ice cubes, or to dance around naked while smoking a Cuban cigar and showering yourself with Necco wafers. Personally I take my scotch neat when I have some fine Macallan, or any quality single malt Highland scotch, and on the rocks when drinking a 12 year old Glenfidditch. In other words, it all depends upon my desire at the time.

But let’s stop all of that right this instant. No more bickering, because we now have access to round ice balls thanks to Macallan. Well, they at least have the rights to the device for the near future. The contraption is deceptively simplistic, relying on that hoodoo magic of science to take a chunk of ice and turn it into a sphere. I don’t care how uppity you are with your scotch drinking, you know you’d like a couple of ice balls clanking around in your glass whilst sipping away on the back porch with a cigar in hand. [Not Cot]