That's pretty close to what I was going to say, Mills. Anybody who needs to have a restraining order placed upon them has obviously gone way beyond the thinking stage. I have a mate who turns into Mr Hyde after just a whisky or two, to the point where it's banned from his house, and if we're ever out on the town and he orders even one, everybody else will just walk away and leave him to it. A nicer guy you couldn't wish to meet in normal circumstances, but after the whisky wine's inside him, the demons of the past come back and he can be strongly, terrifyingly, violent. As far as I'm aware, no other drink has the same effect, so I wonder whether there's a grain allergy involved somewhere, too. 

The Irish and Scots are both Celtic races of course, Mills, and this character had an Irish grandfather on his mother's side, although his Dad was from East Anglia, so he's theoretically half-English (over which he's still in deep denial....) . It's often said that the Romans subjugated the Celts by introducing them to incompatible alcohol, and that the problem has been genetic ever since. Whilst I'm not sure about the validity of the reason, it is very true that a higher proportion of folk up here seem to have problems with drink than those south of the border.