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Post by glennkoks on Sept 16, 2019 13:19:06 GMT
Lagavulin 16 is good stuff but at 88.00 USD a bottle it's a little pricy. I did buy a bottle of Shackleton's Whiskey and was pleasantly surprised. In 2007 they found some of Sir Earnest Shackleton's private stash of scotch frozen in the Antarctic Ice under his base camp. The distillery that crafted the warm liquid had long since gone out of business and the formula was lost to time. A few of the bottles were then sent to "experts" from all over Scotland and a re-creation was made. No one will ever confuse me with a Scotch Connoisseur but personally I thought it was decent and at 40.00 USD a bottle a little more reasonable than many of the single malts.
A couple of things to take from this. I prefer Bourbon to Scotch and and ice cold Oktoberfest to both as my drink of choice.
And more importantly the scotch Sir Earnest Shackleton left behind in the Antarctic Ice was still in... The Antarctic Ice. Frozen just as he left it over 100 years ago.
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Post by Ratty on Sept 17, 2019 0:24:48 GMT
Lagavulin 16 is good stuff but at 88.00 USD a bottle it's a little pricy. I did buy a bottle of Shackleton's Whiskey and was pleasantly surprised. In 2007 they found some of Sir Earnest Shackleton's private stash of scotch frozen in the Antarctic Ice under his base camp. The distillery that crafted the warm liquid had long since gone out of business and the formula was lost to time. A few of the bottles were then sent to "experts" from all over Scotland and a re-creation was made. No one will ever confuse me with a Scotch Connoisseur but personally I thought it was decent and at 40.00 USD a bottle a little more reasonable than many of the single malts. A couple of things to take from this. I prefer Bourbon to Scotch and and ice cold Oktoberfest to both as my drink of choice. And more importantly the scotch Sir Earnest Shackleton left behind in the Antarctic Ice was still in... The Antarctic Ice. Frozen just as he left it over 100 years ago. Please quantify the effect those beverages have on the Gulf Stream ..............
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Post by blustnmtn on Sept 17, 2019 1:44:07 GMT
Please quantify the effect those beverages have on the Gulf Stream .............. They render it utterly meaningless.🥃
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 17, 2019 3:25:22 GMT
Please quantify the effect those beverages have on the Gulf Stream .............. They render it utterly meaningless.🥃 You may meander a bit more though.
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 17, 2019 11:17:35 GMT
They render it utterly meaningless.🥃 You may meander a bit more though. Speaking from the origination end of the Gulf Stream, those particular liquids may have some input to it
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Post by Ratty on Sept 17, 2019 11:32:02 GMT
You may meander a bit more though. Speaking from the origination end of the Gulf Stream, those particular liquids may have some input to it Bacardi at the beginning with Tullamore DEW and Glenfiddich at the end?
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 17, 2019 11:41:05 GMT
Speaking from the origination end of the Gulf Stream, those particular liquids may have some input to it Bacardi at the beginning with Tullamore DEW and Glenfiddich at the end? Please no Dufftown Balvenie Castle liquid - try Glenfarclas
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Post by Ratty on Sept 17, 2019 12:02:39 GMT
Bacardi at the beginning with Tullamore DEW and Glenfiddich at the end? Please no Dufftown Balvenie Castle liquid - try Glenfarclas What's worse? Wine snobs or Whisky/Whiskey snobs? It's a simple question.
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Post by acidohm on Sept 17, 2019 16:43:10 GMT
Please no Dufftown Balvenie Castle liquid - try Glenfarclas What's worse? Wine snobs or Whisky/Whiskey snobs? It's a simple question. Your not gunna let my bad spelling go in a hurry are ya Ratty 🤣
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Post by glennkoks on Sept 17, 2019 17:59:33 GMT
Lagavulin 16 is good stuff but at 88.00 USD a bottle it's a little pricy. I did buy a bottle of Shackleton's Whiskey and was pleasantly surprised. In 2007 they found some of Sir Earnest Shackleton's private stash of scotch frozen in the Antarctic Ice under his base camp. The distillery that crafted the warm liquid had long since gone out of business and the formula was lost to time. A few of the bottles were then sent to "experts" from all over Scotland and a re-creation was made. No one will ever confuse me with a Scotch Connoisseur but personally I thought it was decent and at 40.00 USD a bottle a little more reasonable than many of the single malts. A couple of things to take from this. I prefer Bourbon to Scotch and and ice cold Oktoberfest to both as my drink of choice. And more importantly the scotch Sir Earnest Shackleton left behind in the Antarctic Ice was still in... The Antarctic Ice. Frozen just as he left it over 100 years ago. Please quantify the effect those beverages have on the Gulf Stream .............. Everyone knows Sir Earnest Shackleton's preferred beverage of choice was wine. You see he was born in 1874 during the tail end of the Little Ice Age. Unfortunately the colder weather during this time rendered the cultivation of grapes on the British Isles all but impossible. Wine had to be imported from further south causing the price to increase. Shackleton, being an Irish/Anglo was born with a genetic propensity to partake in the drinking of adult beverages. So he did what any fiscally responsible subject of the Crown would do and develop the taste for beverages created from malted grains which were more resistant to the climate of the LIA. So while I cannot quantify the effect any of those beverages had on the Gulf Stream I can with some certainty quantify the effects the Gulf Stream had on Sir Earnest Shackleton's drinking habits. Which is why they found bottles of Scotch under that base camp in the Antarctic and not Wine.
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 17, 2019 19:15:58 GMT
And so even further from the Gulf Stream.... For those who spell Whisky - WhiskEy .... "Original recipe for Jack Daniel's found in Welsh book of herbal remedies The original recipe for legendary American whiskey Jack Daniel's has been discovered in a book of herbal remedies in Wales, it has been claimed.
Businessman Mark Evans, 54, was researching his family history when he discovered the recipe in a book of herbal remedies.
It was written in 1853 by his great-great grandmother who was called Daniels and was a local herbalist in Llanelli, South Wales. Her brother-in-law left the Welsh town at about the same time to move to Lynchburg Tennessee where the Jack Daniel's distillery was opened three years later. And the Jack Daniel's website states the founder of the distillery was from Wales. Mr Evans says the ingredients in his great-great grandmother's recipe match what goes into the best selling whiskey in the world. "More at: www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9333815/Original-recipe-for-Jack-Daniels-found-in-Welsh-book-of-herbal-remedies.html
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Post by acidohm on Sept 18, 2019 16:26:02 GMT
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