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Lost Scotch whiskey cache buried in Antarctica
A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.
The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition.
Whyte & Mackay, the drinks group that now owns McKinlay and Co., has asked for a sample of the 100-year-old scotch for a series of tests that could decide whether to relaunch the now-defunct Scotch.
Workers from New Zealand's Antarctic Heritage Trust will use special drills to reach the crates, frozen in Antarctic ice under the Nimrod Expedition hut near Cape Royds.
Al Fastier, who will lead the expedition in January, said restoration workers found the crates of whiskey under the hut's floorboards in 2006. At the time, the crates and bottles were too deeply embedded in ice to be dislodged.
The New Zealanders have agreed to try to retrieve some bottles, although the rest must stay under conservation guidelines agreed by 12 Antarctic Treaty nations.
Fastier said he did not want to sample the contents.
"It's better to imagine it than to taste it," he said. "That way it keeps its mystery."
Richard Paterson, Whyte & Mackay's master blender, said the Shackleton expedition's whiskey could still be drinkable and taste exactly as it did 100 years ago.
If he can get a sample, he intends to replicate the old Scotch and put McKinlay whiskey back on sale.
"I really hope we can get some back here," he was quoted as telling London's Telegraph newspaper. "It's been laying there lonely and neglected. It should come back to Scotland where it was born.
"Even if most of the bottles have to remain in Antarctica for historic reasons, it would be good if we could get a couple," Paterson said. |
http://news.discovery.com/human/scotch-whiskey-antarctica-ice.html
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100-year-old Scotch + Roasted Penguin = EPIC Thanksgiving
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Doddsino
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Dude...don't eat the penguins!!!!
I'd always be weary of eating/drinking old stuff...including wine.
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Mr. Bomberman
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Oldest alcohol I ever drank was a 14 year-old bottle of Johnny Walker (mixed with lemonade).
But yeah, wouldn't that be undrinkable, like those 300 year old bottles of wine I've heard of?
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Alcohol is kinda like honey. It never goes bad, if I remember my chemistry correctly.
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JoshWoodzy
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I drank a bottle of wine from 1921 once and it was fucking fabulous.
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SoldierHawk
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I've had 18 year old Glenmorangie whisky. I tried it because its the whisky distilled in Glennfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel--which you may remember as the hometown of a certain Highlander named Connor.) As much as I love almost any straight-up whisky, that one glass spoiled me rotten and now nothing else tastes quite as good as it once did. Not that that stops me, but still.
I've never tried a really aged bottle of wine, although I'd love to. Definitely something on my bucket list.
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I've never had Scotch before. I'm more of a Whiskey/Vodka man myself, but for something like that I'll gladly drink it up!
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JoshWoodzy
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I'm a big fan of Bushmills Irish Whiskey or Wild Turkey 101. Screw regular Wild Turkey, why would I drink something that tastes the same as 101 but gets you less drunk? Silly.
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Doddsino
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I don't know shit about packing bottles from 100 years ago
But is there the possibility that there might be lead or mercury involved?
Again, just thinking outloud/stupid.
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I'm a vodka man, me. Straight from the bottle, true Russian style.
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Give me scotch over whiskey any day.
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I'm a Listerine and Nyquil man.
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Title: owner of a lonely heart
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dont marines mix listerine w/potato skins to make a sort of alcohol?
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I think you are confusing marines with prison inmates again.
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You're thinking of Pruno, straight up prison wine, consisting of rotten fruit, sugar, and ketchup, with the rogue recipe involving just OJ and sauerkraut.
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Blackout
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I can't find a youtube video of the Sealab 2021 cast complaining that they done drank up all the toilet wine. 
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