OT Whiskey

You could have run the lawn mower on it or poured it into the petrol tank on the car !!

Jim G

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the_constructor
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you can do that with "cooking" whisky - but with malt - never!

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charles

I can still see the bemused expressions of passengers on a ferry as we did that returning from France in the hey day of the Booze cruise.

The ferry company had an offer on and it included a "free" bottle of whisky per ticket. Was something blended I had not come across before. Amongst our purchases in France we got some reasonable Malts and were above the customs limit so all six bottles of the nondescript brand were poured in to the tank before we disembarked. We did get pulled over and an officer seeing the empties asked where the contents were, we've drunk it was the reply.

G.Harman

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damduck-egg

There's a story in one of Spike Milligan's war books about coming back to the UK after the war and one soldier in his party having a bottle of whisky that he couldn't bring into the country; it would have to be confiscated. So he cracked it open, drank half the contents and passed the rest around, much to the excise officer's fury. He called over a Military Policeman and told him to arrest the soldier.

MP: "Why?"

EO: "He's drunk."

MP: "No he's not."

MP: "Just wait a bit..."

-- Halmyre

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Halmyre

Not just that, but the *very* slow expansion-contraction due to changes in temperature forces the whisky through the "skin" of the wood, which is usually charred. This acts to filter out certain notes, whilst the wood itself imparts a flavour - plus, as you say, any hint of previous cask contents (sherry and bourbon are the most popular).

Bourbon barrels are only allowed to be used once, by some sort of law, so there's a thriving trade from the US to Scotland. I had the luck to visit a working cooperage near Elgin a few years ago, which I would recommend to anyone - especially if you plan on visiting a distillery (I went to the Glen Moray one).

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Jethro_uk

'Tapping the Admiral'). It evaporates.

'recycled'. Never drink from a warm bottle.

Where did Mrs Pounder get it from, then?

David

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Lobster

Indeed. They spell its uisquebagh

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The Natural Philosopher

Er no. The wood is not 100% alcohol or water tight and the liquid evaporates out. No expansion or contraction required.

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The Natural Philosopher

Not in this house, it doesn't have time.

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scorched

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Ian Jackson

'Tapping the Admiral'). It evaporates.

Never drink from a warm bottle.

In Ye Olden Dayes (c.1950) one could leave a child in a pram outside a grocer's shop without fear of a SWAT team from Social Services descending on you.

Also in Ye Olden Dayes, ones doctor did not hand out sterilised sample bottles, one used whatever came to hand. (You can see where this is going, can't you?)

So, one day around 1950 my mother produced a 'sample' in a whisky bottle - probably Johnnie Walker since you ask - stuck the sample in the pram and headed off to the doctor. On the way there, she stopped off at a parade of shops, parked the pram outside and went inside to buy a few things. When she came out, the pram was still there and I was still there.

But the whisky bottle had gone.

Nick

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Nick Odell

Being shown the warehouse, and being asked why the barrels are laid down for years on end, the distiller told me that over seasons, the "pores in the wood" act like little pumps sucking and squeezing the whisky through the wood and charcoal, and mellowing it, and adding complex flavours. His stance was because of the climate in Scotland, this is a much more gradual process than (say Tennessee). I'm not disputing the evaporation, but there are a lot of things going on in a good whisky.

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Jethro_uk

Are you suggesting Mrs Pounder nicked it and aged it until now?

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dennis

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The Natural Philosopher

Nothing surprises..

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The Natural Philosopher

I am not surprised that a distillery owner doesn't know basic physics.

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The Natural Philosopher

translated to Gaelic as Irish: uisce beatha and Scottish Gaelic: uisge beatha = "lively water" or "water of life".

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curious

Nobody here had been swigging it. The wife had forgotten about it and I did not know it was there.

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Mr Pounder

Usually it's Brut.

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Mr Pounder

Okay, I made a typo.

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Mr Pounder

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