The Lengths Some People Will Go To For A Bottle of Booze

Cyrano · 11-16-2009, 02:54 PM

They'll even go to the ends of the earth. Read this:

Drillers seek Scotch lost in Antarctica in 1909 - TODAY Food and wine

iflylow74 · 11-16-2009, 03:10 PM

I'd like to try it if they find any!!

I saw a show once where they were looking on the bottom of the ocean for a crate of wine that had fallen off a ship back in the 1800's. I believe they said each bottle would bring something like $20,000!!

larmus · 11-16-2009, 05:42 PM

the problem with scotch and whiskey's and burbons... once pulled from the barrel it stops aging, therefore if it was bottled as a twelve year scotch it will still be a twelve year old scotch, just stale... or it could just be nasty... or it could be heaven in a bottle...

.22hustler · 11-17-2009, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by larmus

the problem with scotch and whiskey's and burbons... once pulled from the barrel it stops aging, therefore if it was bottled as a twelve year scotch it will still be a twelve year old scotch, just stale... or it could just be nasty... or it could be heaven in a bottle...

Or poison....

Cyrano · 11-17-2009, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by larmus

the problem with scotch and whiskey's and burbons... once pulled from the barrel it stops aging, therefore if it was bottled as a twelve year scotch it will still be a twelve year old scotch, just stale... or it could just be nasty... or it could be heaven in a bottle...

At an estate sale one time, the operator of the sale was giving her preferred customers shots of a bourbon that was laid down when Prohibition was lifted and was bottled sometime in the late 1950s. (Estate sale operators may or may not be allowed to sell booze found in the estate depending on local laws.) The stuff was pure velvet and kicked like a mule. One shot set my head to spinning, and I sat in my car for about an hour and a half before I felt it was safe to drive.

At another sale, I bought a King Tut decanter full of Michter's 35 Year Old Single Barrel Rye Whisky that was 35 years old when it was bottled for the King Tut exhibit tour in 1979. This was around 2001, so that whisky was more than 50 years old. Absolutely smooth, heavenly stuff; definitely sipping whisky, not something to drink for drunken.

The distiller unfortunately is looking at a blend, not a single malt. If the whiskey turns out to be palatable, I've little doubt a master blender can replicate it. The question I have it ask is, why bother?

SwedeSteve · 11-17-2009, 06:10 PM

Absolutely smooth, heavenly stuff; definitely sipping whisky, not something to drink for drunken. LOL !! You sippin it now Cyr !!

And here I thought this thread was going to be a homage to my earlier days !!

larmus · 11-17-2009, 06:55 PM

A Glass Bottle nor a Ceramic bottle does not impart flavor nor any aging characteristics to the whiskys... none... whisky's, scotches and burbons get all there flavor and aged characteristics from Oak Barrels. American whisky is only allowed to age in New Charred Oak Barrels... in Ireland and Scotland, the use pre-used oak barrels because most all their whisky's are blended... but this is the only time that flavor and age come into the process of "aged" whisky's...
heres wiki's definition (i know that people dont like wiki but this will make for a start)...
Whisky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

if you bought 2 whisky bottles in the 1920's and at the time they were 20 years old (hence aged in a oak barrel for 20 yrs befor being bottled in 1920), if you drank one then it would be smooth a nice 20yr old whisky if for some reason the other bottle was hidden in a base board of the house during prohibition and wasnt discoverd till the year 2000, and some one opened it and drank it... it would taste just like a smooth un adulturated 20 year old whisky as long as it is kept at a constant tempreture through out its life...

cjleete · 11-17-2009, 06:58 PM

I have a couple mason jars with some not-so-smooth backyard likker that is like vintage-ohh about march.

larmus · 11-17-2009, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by cjleete

I have a couple mason jars with some not-so-smooth backyard likker that is like vintage-ohh about march.

oh-my, now thats a critter of a different breed all unto its own... White Lightning... Moonshine... Applejack...

Whootsinator · 11-17-2009, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by larmus

oh-my, no thats a critter of a different breed all unto its own... White Lightning... Moonshine... Applejack...

Mountain Dew

G. Green · 11-17-2009, 07:34 PM

I'm thinking that even scotch would freeze in antarctic conditions. But the search sounds like fun, something I woulda done in college.

SwedeSteve · 11-17-2009, 07:46 PM

^ Me too for sure !!

cheapblaster · 11-17-2009, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by cjleete

I have a couple mason jars with some not-so-smooth backyard likker that is like vintage-ohh about march.

That got me wondering - if you tossed some cask grade oak in the Mason jar, would the stuff be ready by New Year?

11-16-2009, 02:54 PM	#1
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iflylow74 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Arkansas Territory Posts: 1,719 Blog Entries: 11	I'd like to try it if they find any!! I saw a show once where they were looking on the bottom of the ocean for a crate of wine that had fallen off a ship back in the 1800's. I believe they said each bottle would bring something like $20,000!! __________________ Regnant Populi

11-16-2009, 05:42 PM	#3
larmus Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: arizona Posts: 3,435	the problem with scotch and whiskey's and burbons... once pulled from the barrel it stops aging, therefore if it was bottled as a twelve year scotch it will still be a twelve year old scotch, just stale... or it could just be nasty... or it could be heaven in a bottle... __________________ Lawrence Home Defense: .45 and a Shovel...

11-17-2009, 06:10 PM	#6
SwedeSteve Suspected Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Anchortown, Alaska Posts: 26,433	*Absolutely smooth, heavenly stuff; definitely sipping whisky, not something to drink for drunken. LOL !! You sippin it now Cyr !!* And here I thought this thread was going to be a homage to my earlier days !! __________________ In the absence of orders, ATTACK !!

11-17-2009, 06:55 PM	#7
larmus Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: arizona Posts: 3,435	A Glass Bottle nor a Ceramic bottle does not impart flavor nor any aging characteristics to the whiskys... none... whisky's, scotches and burbons get all there flavor and aged characteristics from Oak Barrels. American whisky is only allowed to age in New Charred Oak Barrels... in Ireland and Scotland, the use pre-used oak barrels because most all their whisky's are blended... but this is the only time that flavor and age come into the process of "aged" whisky's... heres wiki's definition (i know that people dont like wiki but this will make for a start)... Whisky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia if you bought 2 whisky bottles in the 1920's and at the time they were 20 years old (hence aged in a oak barrel for 20 yrs befor being bottled in 1920), if you drank one then it would be smooth a nice 20yr old whisky if for some reason the other bottle was hidden in a base board of the house during prohibition and wasnt discoverd till the year 2000, and some one opened it and drank it... it would taste just like a smooth un adulturated 20 year old whisky as long as it is kept at a constant tempreture through out its life... __________________ Lawrence Home Defense: .45 and a Shovel...

11-17-2009, 06:58 PM	#8
cjleete Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 480	I have a couple mason jars with some not-so-smooth backyard likker that is like vintage-ohh about march. __________________ "Yeah I'm playing with a full deck, all Jokers of course"

11-17-2009, 07:34 PM	#11
G. Green Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: NE OK Posts: 1,061	I'm thinking that even scotch would freeze in antarctic conditions. But the search sounds like fun, something I woulda done in college. __________________ "The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance" Einstein

11-17-2009, 07:46 PM	#12
SwedeSteve Suspected Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Anchortown, Alaska Posts: 26,433	^ Me too for sure !! __________________ In the absence of orders, ATTACK !!