Bourbon science and an old bottle

[Jono]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728220208.htm

Toward Designer Bourbon Whiskeys With Custom-tailored Aromas

Who can ID the old bottle in the photo?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2008/07/080728220208.jpg

[JeffRenner]

Cooked apple - I like that! I don't think I've ever heard that one, but I know what they mean. Apple dumpling, with a sugary crust, and with nuts, cinnamon and sugar in the center. Hot from the oven.

I have definitely tasted that in some bourbons.

I don't think it's in the list of descriptors we have online, although the individual components are. But I think the apple in the list is more fresh apple rather than cooked apple.

Cool.

Jeff (sipping a pre-prandial manhattan made with 6yo HH BiB and Boissiere vermouth.)

[Jono]

"Flecken"? "Pickenny"?old bourbon whiskey?

Picken & Co. ?

I used a magnifying glass but the pixels are still hazy.

[Jono]

http://books.google.com/books?id=hsQEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA434&lpg=PA434&dq=Picken+%26+Co.+bourbon+whiskey&source=bl&ots=Totn5mrHnx&sig=-iyeBEw5LclIC9UN2jqw4ubgrs8&hl=en&ei=yzCnSZavE8iVngeolND0Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

Yes, Picken & Company "Copper Distilled Pure Old Bourbon Whiskey" appears to have been sold as a medical product. "Weeks & Potter" on the bottle.

How they come up with that out of all of the bourbon bottles to pick....odd choice.

http://www.sha.org/bottle/finishstyles3.htm

"Weeks & Potter was a Boston proprietary medicine concern, founded in 1852 and operating well into the 20th century. They produced many patent & proprietary medicines including the Sanford's Radical Cure and several Cuticura products including the famous Cuticura System of Curing Constitutional Humors (Baldwin 1973; Fike 1987)."