"As a prophylactic measure, they were drinking their Scotch mixed with Irn-Bru"<p>...and they asked these barbarians about whisky?!<p>I have never heard of anybody here in Scotland drinking whisky mixed with Irn-Bru, except as a dare. Expensive whisky is drunk neat, or with a bit of water; never with ice. Increasingly, nowadays, you get whisky cocktails. Cheap blended whisky is also drunk neat, or with beer (either side-by-side or as a boilermaker, with the shotglass of whisky dropped into a pint of beer), or with soda water or lemonade.<p>Irn-Bru is usually drunk with vodka.