Pending patent for speeding up spirit aging

[MarkEdwards]

The only way to the New World is to sail from Europe to the West Indies.

Anybody who thinks there's a better way risks unknown consequences.

They obviously never tried simply drilling through the center of the earth. Lazy bums.

[MarkEdwards]

Some ways might be better, and some not. Can you say "Hindenberg"?

I'm just waiting for some clueless marketeer to sell a Hindenberg brand quick cooker. :hot:

[mrviognier]

Well, there have been innovations in the past that worked, notably cycling.

[callmeox]

It's just when someone claims to be able to circumvent established methodologies and still achieve identical qualitative results that I raise a skeptical eyebrow.

He's a whiskey alchemist.

[Gillman]

The history of whiskey is one of innovation, but it doesn't occur in a straight line. From wild to mixed strain to pure culture yeasts, from flat boats to grocers' shops to built warehouses, from the latter to artificially heated and cooled warehouses to accelerate the number of cycles (movement of whiskey into and from the barrel).... I am not sure where process improvement starts and breakthrough commences. Cycling is said to save considerable natural aging time, so quick aging seems to me on a kind of continuum...

Slow oxidation seems the main challenge, but I don't see why one day that cannot be emulated. So many scientific breakthroughs have occurred in other fields that were thought impossible at the outset.

Gary

[MarkEdwards]

So many scientific breakthroughs have occurred in other fields that were thought impossible at the outset.

Like them folks at MIT, working on an electric thinkin' machine. Personally, I don't think it'll ever work... :grin: