Only whisky distillery in the Muslim world preparing 20 year old single malt

(27 Dec 2006) PAKISTAN WHISKY SOURCE: AP TELEVISION NEWS RESTRICTIONS: TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLY LENGTH: 4:23 SHOTLIST : 1. Wide pan of Rawalpindi city 2. People praying in the street 3. Wide of entrance to Murree Brewery 4. Close up of sign, reading 'Murree Brewery Co. Ltd. Est'd 1860' 5. Vodka bottles along conveyor belt with workers in background 6. Bottles moving along conveyor belt 7. Beer bottles passing inspection light box 8. Quality control worker inspects passing bottles 9. Various of worker removes bottle from passing inspection line 10. Set up of M.P. Bhandara, head of Murree Brewery 11. Close up of Bhandara 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) M.P. Bhandara, head of Murree Brewery : "Pakistan has a very wrong image abroad. The image over there is that it is a mullah-ridden state, its terrorist and all that sort of thing. Well, every country has its extremes and Pakistan too has its extremes, but the fact of the matter is what you see over here. That is the reality." 13. Tilt up whisky barrels in front of Murree Brewery main building 14. Close up of windows of brewery malting rooms 15. Worker handturns barley malt in old malting house 16. Close of malt being turned as part of fermenting process 17 Wide of three workers turning malt 18. Pull out malt whisky brewing in vat 19. Worker closing door to vat 20. Brass tap dripping 21. Worker closing lid on vat 22. Worker opening steam valve, tilts up to face 23. Steam being pumped into tanker truck full of molasses 24. Molasses pouring out into a gutter 25. Brewer Yasin Sadiq walking down sloping corridor lined with barrels of maturing whisky, UPSOUND: (English) Yasin Sadiq, Brewer : "I will show you the 20 year old.' 26. Tilt up stacked whisky barrels 27. Sadiq walking through underground whisky store 28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yasin Sadiq, Brewer: "Yes it take too long time. You see, and look after it." 29. Tilt up imported oak casks of maturing whisky 30. SOUNDBITE: (English) M.P. Bhandara, head of Murree Brewery : "Rightly or wrongly, we are sort of dedicated to excellence to see how far we can go in producing perhaps some of the finest spirits in the world. We don't have a great deal of 20 year old whisky, we have just a couple of hundred cases. And probably we won't ever do it again because the work involved has been very great. I don't think we can bring about this dedication for the next 20 years. But once it is going, we hope it will have its mark as a good malt whisky and will be well received by connoisseurs the world over." 31. Close up of whisky being poured into glass 32. Members of Christian community toasting each other and drinking whisky 33. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Nasir Rafiq, shop clerk : "When the new taste (the 20 year old Murree whisky) appears, we'll check it out. And if it's good, then obviously we would take it." 34. Brewery workers moving whisky barrel on forklift truck 35. Forklift truck carrying whisky barrel away LEAD IN: One of Pakistan's few breweries has been distilling single-malt whisky for years. But soon the brewery is about to release a new product - a 20 year old single malt. STORYLINE: Rawalpindi, a city of almost two (m) million people in northern Pakistan, is a world away from the crisp mountain streams and heather-covered glens normally associated with single-malt whiskys. But it's here that the only malt whisky distillery in the Muslim world is preparing to launch its newest product, a 20-year single malt that it claims will rival the best Scotch whisky. Muslims caught drinking alcohol can be caned and jailed for three years. AP TELEVISION NEWS Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...