Josh
11-06-2009, 18:42
Well, I couple weeks ago I picked up what I though was a pretty sweet dusty. RHF from the early 90s with the cheezy medallion.
Well, when I opened it up I noticed that there was some staining on the plastic around the stopper. I removed it and pulled out the stopper. The stopper came out, but unfortunately the cork stayed in the neck! It was stuck on. The bottle had apparently been stored on its side for an extended period of time. And it tasted like it had.
So I decanted it through the hole left in the cork and then got to thinking...
I have some activated charcoal nuggets I use to de-odorize the fridge, so I took some of those and poured them into one of those reusable coffee filters. I ran the bourbon through there several times. It smelled and tasted better but had this sort of black haze in it from the charcoal. So I ran it through some cheese cloth and ran it through the charcoal once or twice more and then the cheese cloth again and the haze was mostly gone.
How does it taste now? Better, but not exactly what it must have been before. I have managed to take it from tainted to mixable. Which is not bad, if I do say so myself!
Anybody else tried to save a whiskey?
Well, when I opened it up I noticed that there was some staining on the plastic around the stopper. I removed it and pulled out the stopper. The stopper came out, but unfortunately the cork stayed in the neck! It was stuck on. The bottle had apparently been stored on its side for an extended period of time. And it tasted like it had.
So I decanted it through the hole left in the cork and then got to thinking...
I have some activated charcoal nuggets I use to de-odorize the fridge, so I took some of those and poured them into one of those reusable coffee filters. I ran the bourbon through there several times. It smelled and tasted better but had this sort of black haze in it from the charcoal. So I ran it through some cheese cloth and ran it through the charcoal once or twice more and then the cheese cloth again and the haze was mostly gone.
How does it taste now? Better, but not exactly what it must have been before. I have managed to take it from tainted to mixable. Which is not bad, if I do say so myself!
Anybody else tried to save a whiskey?