Allowed? perhaps you meant preferred?  ;-)

we should be indisputably tolerant of what the uneducated wish to drink. if they all drank Caol Ila, then we couldn't afford it.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

I've got a rather good (for Finland) calvados for this evening. But obviously I won't be celebrating ;-)

Though I may be cerebrating.

You can't be me, I'm taken

Assuming we can't get any proper whiskey.