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Scotch Whisky Meant To Warm Antarctic Explorers Retrieved After Century Locked In Ice
StarTribune.com ^
| February 5, 2010
| AP
Posted on 02/06/2010 9:26:13 AM PST by DogByte6RER
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This is truly a treasure find...
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:26:56 AM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
Indeed. Maybe the most valuable whiskey in the world!
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:27:11 AM PST
by
jpl
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:27:33 AM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:28:10 AM PST
by
jay1949
(Work is the curse of the blogging class)
To: DogByte6RER; alarm rider; stump56; bcsco; PJ-Comix; kimmie7; MissDairyGoodnessVT; Paul Heinzman; ...
A “not quite bourbon ping”. It is whiskey..
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:28:11 AM PST
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Freepmail me to get on the Bourbon ping list.)
To: DogByte6RER
Would any beverage that old be consumable, vodka maybe?
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:28:29 AM PST
by
valkyry1
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:28:52 AM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: valkyry1
The liquor only ages while in contact with the wood barrels, once put in glass all aging stops. So even though it is technically old, the whiskey is as old today as it was when bottled.
However, it still is a really great find.
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:31:26 AM PST
by
svcw
(If you are going to quote the Bible know what you are quoting.)
To: valkyry1
Absolutely...and it will taste exactly the same as it did 100 years ago. Glass is non-reactive, so the whiskey has not “aged” or “matured” in any way....what would have been fantastic is had it been in a oak cask..not that would be awesome..
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:33:44 AM PST
by
ken5050
(Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
Five crates of Scotch whisky and two of brandy have been recovered by a team restoring an Antarctic hut used more than 100 years ago by famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. (New Zealand Antarctic Heritage)
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:33:50 AM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: valkyry1
Would any beverage that old be consumable, vodka maybe? With that much ethanol in it, and entombed in ice the entire time, it should taste just like it did the day it was bottled.
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:34:09 AM PST
by
Oberon
(Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
To: DogByte6RER
Shackleton
the name exudes balls....and willpower
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:35:07 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(Book of Eli.....awesome.....Denzel Washington was perfect....Mila Kunis is smoking..nothing PC)
To: DogByte6RER
I look forward to sampling Whyte and Mackay’s attempt at reproducing the taste of Mackinley’s lost recipe.
They apparently found cases of brandy, as well.
To: ken5050; svcw; Oberon
I suppose this is true with liquor but I would swear shine changes in a jar after some years...course it could be the peach breaking down
Wine of course can get stellar or go bad in glass...is it the cork contact?
this is curious
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:37:56 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(Book of Eli.....awesome.....Denzel Washington was perfect....Mila Kunis is smoking..nothing PC)
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:38:04 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:38:19 AM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
aged in bourbon casks is it not...often?
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:38:45 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(Book of Eli.....awesome.....Denzel Washington was perfect....Mila Kunis is smoking..nothing PC)
To: worst-case scenario
The brandy might actually be more interesting at this aged.
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:40:20 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(Book of Eli.....awesome.....Denzel Washington was perfect....Mila Kunis is smoking..nothing PC)
To: DogByte6RER
although the rest must stay under conservation guidelines agreed to by 12 Antarctic Treaty nations. good lord
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posted on
02/06/2010 9:41:50 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(Book of Eli.....awesome.....Denzel Washington was perfect....Mila Kunis is smoking..nothing PC)
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Five crates of Scotch whisky and two of brandy have been recovered by a team restoring an Antarctic hut used more than 100 years ago by famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. (New Zealand Antarctic Heritage)