So im watching tv and theres things on tv that like huh?? Like not locking doors and full grown adults being high school kids? What other weirdness have you noticed it can be other media as well....
Decanting whisk(e)y is actually far more common on television than it is in reality.
Whisk(e)y ya see, in Hollywood-land is perceived as fancy, especially if it's scotch, thus if you want a serious, but refined character, put a glass of whisk(e)y in their hands.
But have you actually heard them talk about famous brands? Only a handful of times, right?
That's because anytime you've seen a whisk(e)y brand in a movie or TV show, that's because the production company actually shelled out the money the distillery wanted to display their product in the movie or TV show.
But most can't afford to pay the tens of thousands of dollars of product placement, thus, if a character is written to be a whisk(e)y drinker, you don't see any famous and recognizable brands, you just see them use a whisk(e)y decanter.
Nothing against the decanter, but it's not as common amongst whisk(e)y drinkers as Hollywood would like you to believe. While there's nothing
wrong with decanting whisk(e)y, and indeed Infinity Bottles are a thing, it's just that the whisk(e)y we buy already comes in a nice, suitable container with a better, more secure lid than most decanters, and that's the bottle it comes in. Decanters don't have an airtight seal that a cork or screw top would provide.
Some decanters though are unsafe to put
any liquid into, and those are the type of decanters you see in movies, fancy crystal decanters. Here's why that's a bad idea. Crystal glass contains lead in it. Pour 40% ABV spirit in that lead decanter, and it will leach out lead into the whisk(e)y, making it dangerous to consume because of lead poisoning.
Not only that, but the whisk(e)y on camera is actually not really whisk(e)y, but caramel colored water designed to
look the part.
That said, there
are times when brands are shown in movies and TV shows, and hell, even
mentioned by name sometimes, and that's because the production company could afford the product placement.