Sometimes, things don’t go your way. Sometimes—SPOILER ALERT—you're the subject of a nationwide manhunt, you've fled to frosty New Hampshire, and you're about to intentionally reveal your location to your family and law enforcement officials. It's times like these that you’d probably turn to a glass of whiskey. And if you’re Walter White on Breaking Bad, you’d probably make it Dimple Pinch, neat.

On last night’s penultimate episode of the AMC series, a gaunt Walt perched on a barstool and did just that. The moment will almost certainly rocket-launch the blended Scotch into the boozy universe of iconic TV and film drinks: the Dude’s White Russian , Patrick Bateman’s Corona with J&B straight , Hannibal Lechter’s Chianti. But for the liquor nerds watching—the kind of boozy, fact-checking gestapo whose sights are more commonly trained on shows like Mad Men —the order was a dangling carrot for examining the Breaking Bad world of whiskey.

Dimple Pinch, for those not familiar, is an extremely mild blended whiskey with a few centuries' worth of roots in Scotland. It’s produced by Haig, a company that’s been around since at least 1655 when, according to common lore , founder Robert Haig was scolded by the church for distilling on the Sabbath. Dimple Pinch's unmistakable triangle-shaped bottle was patented in 1958—actually the first glass container to be registered as a trademark in the United States.

It’s that three-sided bottle that makes Dimple Pinch so easy to spot on Breaking Bad . Although he’s never named it, last night wasn’t the first time Walt reached for the stuff. He breaks out Dimple Pinch in the season one finale, sharing a dram with Hank at Holly’s baby shower. In the season five opener, he pours himself a glass of Pinch after taking out Gus Fring—in that episode, as in last night’s, he never gets a chance to finish the drink. Dimple Pinch is Walter White’s go-to whiskey for pivotal occasions, like the birth of an heiress to a blood-money meth fortune, or a cosmic comeuppance five seasons in the making. On both occasions, a single malt might have seemed more appropriate then a middle-brow blend. Then again, have you seen what Walt does to bacon ? There’s no accounting for taste.

Walt favors Scotch, but elsewhere in the Breaking Bad universe, tastes in whiskey run closer to home. Vince Gilligan is a professed fan of WhistlePig , and the bottled-in-Vermont rye made an appearance earlier this season. In “Madrigal,” Hank and Gomez sip the stuff out of coffee mugs with departing DEA boss George Merkert. Hank stocks all-American Knob Creek bourbon in his home bar—he breaks out the bottle, pouring it neat for himself and over rocks for Walt in the season-five episode “Gliding Over it All.” That scene, by the way, sparked the popular theory that Walt absorbs the traits and affectations of those he’s killed—following Mike’s murder, Walt takes his whiskey, as Mike did, on the rocks. Hank turns to the same bottle of Knob Creek later in season five, downing a double in “Confessions.” And although the shot is too blurry to know for sure, Mike may be drinking Wild Turkey with a pile of peanuts in season four’s “Thirty-Eight Snub.”

It bears mentioning that Breaking Bad characters have had worse luck with agave spirits than with whiskey. Walt Jr. party fouls in the swimming pool after drinking too much generic jugged tequila with his father in the season two episode “Over,” and a poisoned bottle of the fictional Zafiro Anejo kills Don Eladio and his entire cartel in season four’s “Salud.” And remember that super-awkward meet-up between Walt, Skyler, Hank and Marie at the Mexican restaurant in “Confessions”? No one wanted tableside guacamole—or a margarita.

For a show that inspires more conspiracies than Apollo 11, it’s all got to mean something. Share your theories and additional booze sightings with us on Twitter , or do like we do, and ponder it over a fast-emptying fifth of whatever's in the liquor cabinet.