Posted on 07/06/2012 5:38:52 PM PDT by yorkie
When a Missouri man decided to install central air-conditioning and central heat in the attic of his historic house, he found much more than he bargained for.
Bryan Fite, of St. Joseph, Mo., discovered 13 bottles of century-old whisky under the floorboards in the attic of his 1850s house.
He didn't recognize his good fortune right away, thinking the bottles were tubes or oddly shaped installation pipes. But Fite soon discovered he was sitting on a goldmine of antique whisky - the bottles are likely worth several hundred dollars each, and possibly more.
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Send me one or two. I’ll check them out!
Somehow I can’t help but think that it’s got to be worth more than several hundred dollars, not necessarily from a liquor perspective, but as an antique, and as an historical artifact.
I used to collect and sell that stuff when I was a kid.
you get the old court records to find out where the old farm dumps were and you dig there.
One of my friends turned up a whiskey bottle from like 1798
Whisky; letting white people dance and ugly people procreate since 1405. I believe I’ll have a Whisky bin Laden.
Wow! That is impressive!
The oldest I ever found, was a three year old ‘box’ of Cabernet in my garage last month. (Hidden under the Christmas decorations.)
Wow! these are full? with paper labels intact?
I didnt realize these were full of the product unopened.
I am not knowledgeable about alcohol but it seems very unlikely that it would be still drinkable.
Cabernet is best when its been aged 6 years.
I’m sure its still fine if its unopened.
I dunno, the heat in an attic gets pretty high. And the chill in an attic in winter gets pretty low, so that may have changed the ‘bouquet’ and altered the alcohols.
Good point.
I was SO embarassed - I brought two ‘old’ bottles of champagne to a celebration for my daughter in another state, and gave everybody champagne glasses - and we all sat around in a circle to pop the cork in celebration...........but what poured out was dark, lumpy, crusty stuff - and I was SO shocked - I could barely show my face!
Amazing!
I know they found a stash in Antarctica that was still good to drink.
Distilled spirits have an unlimited shelf life.
Finally, a great argument against having a house built.
Would heat affect them?
Thanks, I had no idea. I did know it would keep pretty well but not that long.
We used to dig out old filled in Cisterns for bottles. A very dangerous hobby LOL. You have just a few hours before the walls become too dangerous to dig anymore. You could easily tell what decade you were in and when you hit Prohibition. Prohibition showed much more than usual medicine bottles :>}
I still have a bunch of old Christmas Cokes and even a couple of six packs of embossed 10 oz Coke bottles. Most memorable find as a blue Mason quart jar Nov 15 1858 laying on the side of a dirt road. BTW ever see any Number 13 jars? I think I've seen one.
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