For being a good boy, pulling my guts out and making a 10/10 job of painting the interior of my house the wife has given me a bottle of Bells Whiskey. Seems she has had it in a drawer for maybe three years. It looked a bit pale. The top was on tightly but there was no click sound when I opened it. It tasted awful so I have poured it down the drain. Does Whiskey deteriorate?
No, don't think so. Spirits were used as an antiseptic and a preservative (cf 'Tapping the Admiral'). It evaporates.
I suspect you may have had a bottle in which the contents had been 'recycled'. Never drink from a warm bottle.
In message , Mr Pounder writes
Presumably the bottle had the type of screw top which splits away from a perforated bit (indicating that the bottle has been opened). However, sometimes the whole of the top comes off intact, and if this is what happened, it could be that the contents have been got at. Someone could have been having the occasional surreptitious sip, and topping the bottle up with water - and well-diluted whiskey tends to taste rather nasty - and, of course, looks pale.
Also, although 40% full strength whiskey won't 'go off' after the bottle is opened, it will do if it has been diluted to less than (say) 15%.
Do you, by any chance, have a teenage son?
Not in a few years. The best ones are matured in casks for longer than that. And they're not sealed as well as a bottle.
If it was Whiskey ... then it was not Bells
Bells is Scotch Blended Whisky
Whiskey is Irish not Scottish
Whatever you had as a Blended spirit it does not usually improve that much with age, compared to for example a single malt ........ also it does not go off ....
If it is in fact labelled as Bells Whiskey .... then maybe it is a cheap copy, and may have moire in common with anti-freeze than Scotland.
It certainly evaporates....
If it really said Bells *Whiskey* (as opposed to Whisky) then it's counterfeit stuff.
Whisky doesn't go off in poorly sealed bottles. If the Whiskey was a typo, then someone's been drinking it and adulterating it with something else to top it up.
Tim
You thought it tasted awful as it was Whisky and not Old Spice (your usual tipple).
None of them do after they are bottled. Its the time they spend in the barrel absorbing the tastes of whatever was in them previously that is the age of a whisky.
Thats Bells whiskey all right.
It will lose alcohol faster than it loses water if its not sealed.
If it was Bells Whiskey and not Bells Whisky, then it was probably a fake.
Doesn't your wife love you? If my wife bought me Bells, I'd divorce her.
Bells is whisky rather than whiskey.
Bells always tastes awful.
Next time demand something decent, Bushmills or at least Jamesons ;-)
In message , Brian Reay. writes
Indeed. I much prefer whiskey to whisky (although I never turn down a kind offer). I can't help feeling that, somehow, the Scots have never quite got the hang of making it.
It probably went into a sulk being called Whiskey. Anyway, that's Bells - headbanging juice.
I'm Scottish and can't stand the blended shit. Malts, otoh, fill me with delight, especially with some ginger ale [1], and some of them don't even give me a banging headache next day. Irish Whiskey goes down a treat too - preferably Jimmy's.
[1] Fuck off, purists.
I'm slightly diff, if it says scotch & 40% on the bottle, I'll drink it. :D I drink for effect, I don't particularly like the stuff. I'm not as thunk as you drink I am and I was deffo not expeeding the seed limit, ossifer.
O c'mon, if it says 40%, get it down yer neck ;)
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Au contraire. I think you'll find that it's the Irish who are struggling to get it right. Can't even spell it right for starters! ;-)
Tim
In message , Grimly Curmudgeon writes
'Tis said the only thing you should add to a single malt whisky is a drop or two of pure Highland spring water from the grouse moors. On the other hand, 'tis also said that a true whisky aficionado will add anything which helps it go down well. While I prefer mine unadulterated, someone recommended Coca Cola - and yes, it's quite nice.
If I get enough, I can't spell it either way.
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