Oh Charles, how you love to tease us.

Pity that the shipnduck appears to have lost his ability to float (maybe his ass wasn't water-tight).

Good thing Maker's Mark doesn't require a specific glass.

Technically this is NOT Deckards apartment. This is taken from the Westwood Blade Runner PC game from the late 90s. In the game you play a different Blade Runner who has a very similar life and apartment to Deckards (its part of the plot)

@2 for the pedantry win. As a fellow BR nerd, I salute you.

The whiskey tumblers are, for the record, really really nice. They weren't movie props, they were italian-made crystal glasses that one of the set dressers found. Each one weighs a solid 9 or 10 ounces.

Sadly, the squared-off Johnny Walker Black bottle that Deckard pours from appears to have not only been a custom prop, but a prop repurposed from another movie. A few years back some completely insane person commissioned a production run of reproductions (just of the bottle -- you had to print your own label due to the obvious copyright issues) from a factory in China, but they're long since sold out and nobody's been mad enough to try again recently.

(True story: the little glass shot cup that Deckard bleeds into after getting beaten down by Leon? I found a set of them at a yard sale in San Francisco a few years back; they were part of a pump decanter system.)

If you dig the ambiance of Blade Runner try to track down the fan edited 'Los Angeles, November 2019" album. It takes the ambient tracks from the game, adds in a few movie queues and creates a wonderful ambient trip through the world. http://www.vangelis-rarities.com/index.p…

Since Charles apparently can't be bothered to actually see if a link he posts actually works, here is an amazon uk link for the glass: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whiskey-Glass-De…

Fun little Google rabbit-hole: http://www.singlemalting.com/blog/2014/4… > http://www.arnolfodicambio.com/en/design… > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnolfo_di_… > http://glassware.best-uk.biz/2014/05/cib… > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Double-Blade-Run…

There's a set of the shot glasses up on ebay.

Also...Makers? MAKERS? Deckard only drinks Johnny Walker Black. No self respecting scotch man would ever let nasty bourbon pass his lips.

Johnnie. Excuse me. Hate it when I misspell that.

Jump ahead to 6:53:11 when it starts getting REALLY good.

I'm still waiting for Buster Friendly and his Friendly Friends to come on. Oh hang on, I've got to go up to the roof to feed my sheep. Back in a quick min.

LOL at a Johnnie Walker Black drinker looking down his nose at bourbon. Maybe if you were a Johnnie Walker Gold drinker could you get away with that.

Or if the bourbon in question was Jim Beam.

I actually don't drink Johnnie either. Deckard was stuck on earth (couldn't go off world where it was better) and getting a meager cops salary. Perhaps JW Black was all he could afford. My looking down the nose is at ALL vile nasty bourbon. Scotch or Irish is the only true Whiskey (and maybe Japanese if you are feeling adventurous) Even the shittiest of scotch is better than bourbon any day.

Simply put Bourbon is a scourge upon this earth and should be eradicated.

@ 14, I'm sorry to learn of your incorrectly developed palate.

I guess its fine then. Less of you heathens getting to my superior scotch. I've tasted many bourbons by many of you fans claiming I didn't know what I was missing. Each and every time I have regretted ever letting it past my lips. Enjoy the swill all you want, just don't ever claim a one of the greatest fictional scifi characters would ever be caught retired drinking bourbon.

I'm a self respecting Scotch drinker, and I have a great love for good bourbon. You are a total poseur.

I've been called worse before. Won't stop me from enjoying a superior drink. Self respect may be the only thing you will get then Gurl, because the rest of us real scotch drinkers will never respect that.

But really, the main beef we should be having here is Charles' complete inability to know what the hell he is talking about. Why do we put up with him?

Some of these comments must be from Chickenheads.

There's a reason you're not allowed Off-World.

As an aside: in theory I like scotch more than bourbon. But in practice, let's get real: we're living through the worst scotch drought in recorded history. The mothballing of a significant portion of scotland's distilleries back in the 70s and 80s, combined with the rise of China, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and southeast Asia as high-demand export markets for scotch whiskey means that for the last decade and change we've been paying ever-higher prices for ever-more-dubious scotch.

When even Macallan and Springbank (Springbank!) start shipping no-age-statement bottles, it's time to wake up and smell the ashes. Say what you will about American bourbon, there's at this point more than enough distilleries in play that whatever your taste in whiskey is, you can probably find a decent dram of bourbon for under $40/bottle. The price of entry for a decent single malt scotch is well past twice that at this point, and frankly I don't anticipate buying any more until every last bottle I've laid in over the last 20 years is gone.

(Not that the american/canadian whiskey market don't have its own quirks: an impressive number of the cutely-named and bottled ryes on the shelves these days are all sourced from the same anonymous mega-distillery in the midwest and just given a quick barrel finish and touch-up by whoever their putative maker is. But c'est la capitalisme I guess.)

@19 bourbon lovers would definitely be chickenheads for sure.

@20 lets not forget that bourbon is also going through similar supply/demand problems. And that Makers is watering down their bottles.