A Shot of Oakies

A tale of bourbon and pirates with a little Shakespearean flair! Kingston Jamaica 1785. Despite a tropical storm hitting the island Sarah the bartender at Henry's opens the pub for the night. When an old sea captain takes a seat and she offers him a drink his reply is cryptic and he warns it leads to a story. Insisting he continue a regular patron buys his first round and thus the adventure begins . . . It's 1742 Europe is a battlefield and a rebellion brews in Scotland. In the Americas Mairi a young Scotswoman stumbles upon an innovative method for distilling whiskey. The spirit attracts the attention of Clarkeson a beautiful Irish pirate and she seizes a British ship rumored to have several barrels aboard. Declaring a personal war on the English she executes the captain and claims the Caribbean Sea. As her notoriety crosses the Atlantic it reaches an English pirate-hunter fighting the Spanish in the Mediterranean. Intrigued by the stories he and his crew of whisky drinkers are faced with a conundrum-are the reports of this pirate and her 'Oakies' credible enough to make it worth taking the journey to the New World?