THE world raised a glass to our national drink yesterday,  and it was all down to a Scots student who`s made it rich thanks to the `water of life`.

World Whisky Day – a concept created by an Edinburgh-born student in 2012 and sold for a six figure sum three years later – is now at its zenith and was marked by a series of events held across the globe.

Blair Bowman, 26, came up with idea and bought the website domain name while studying languages at the University of Aberdeen.

He said: `I just did it as an experiment to see if I could make a global trending topic on Twitter. And I did.

[...] Continue reading at - Source