The stoppers aren't cork.
Possibly old fashioned glass and lead?
And the contents are still clearly visible.
Posted on 11/28/2020 11:56:28 AM PST by Beowulf9
It was great,different but great. Hope you had a good one also-—and now on to Christmas.
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The age of whiskey only counts when it is the barrel. After it is bottled, age doesn’t matter one whit. I doubt that they aged this very much originally. It was bootleg, and I am sure the emphasis was on turnaround. The stuff was probably pretty harsh originally. The intervening century would not improve this at all.
I’d send a bottle to a lab to get analyzed to make sure it’s not adulterated. After that, I’d sell them all for a mint. The story alone makes each bottle worth a collectible.
If one of those bottles just happens to fall.....
The liquor is a brand of Scottish whiskey labeled Old Smuggler Gaelic whiskey, which is still made today.
Some of the bottles are still full, some have failed seals and are empty.
Here is the problem. If it was scotch, they should have spelled it “whisky”. And they said it was bootleg, which connotates bathtub hooch. So, misunderstandings are eminently understandable...
But, if the alcohol evaporated, won’t the bottles be half empty?
I hope Nick and Patrick have a real good time with it.
Some people lead such FASCINATING lives!!
While whiskey does not “age” in the bottle, vintage whiskeys are good because they were crafted in a time when quality ingredients were used and distillers took pride in their work. Find a bottle of cheap “old grand dad” from the 50’s or 60’s and you will find it is nothing like today’s version.
As for the bottles in this story, they are not “bootleg”, despite the name. They are a blended scotch from, you guessed it, Scotland. Vintage Old Smuggler fetches a very high price, even in Scotland. If in good condition, these should fetch over $1,000/bottle.
Actually, pure gum spirits of turpentine can be taken internally in very small doses (teaspoon or less). It used to be used as a treatment for parasites. I have family members that have experience with this, and they're not dead yet. It was taken with sugar, so maybe there's something to that song in Mary Poppins.
How can you say different without letting me know how?!!?
You know I’m like an 11 year old that has to know everything :)
It probably was barely drinkable back then. But as long as it was sealed it wouldn’t go “bad.” Of course, it wouldn’t age either. It needs to be in a cask for that.
Oh, I will take an vintage bottle of Old Grand Dad, bottled in bond, any day. If you need an address, I would be more than happy to forward one to you. ;^)
“The age of whiskey only counts when it is the barrel. After it is bottled, age doesn’t matter one whit.”
Is that also true of wine?
In my neck of Appalachia some people still have stills for self use and pass along to close friends. A friend of a friend showed me how they can distinguish the good whiskey from the bad , make you blind stuff. It’s the smell. They drain off the bad stuff which is at the bottom and the good stuff floats on top. I had a real hard time distinguishing between the two.
No thanks I will pass.
The stoppers aren't cork.
Possibly old fashioned glass and lead?
And the contents are still clearly visible.
66 bottles of whiskey in the wall...
66 bottles of whiskey
take one down and pass it around
65 bottles of whiskey in the wall.
Two protons and no electrons.....
Unstable nuclear formation.
It could be if the bottles were tightly sealed. In 1975, I was staying at a friend's grandmother's house, when he brought out a bottle of rum to flavor our coffee. It was Bacardi, but I noticed the bottle looked different than the usual Bacardi bottles. Then I saw on the label that it was from Cuba, and the date was 1953. It was half-empty but it still tasted good.
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