Rapid Aging Hoopla

[heydobro]

Damnit, after a couple drinks I picked the wrong one bread pudding does sound good right now though

[amg]

That's been done Harry, on an industrial scale in the 1870s, 80s and 90s. It was called "compound whisky", and the practice was widespread. So much in fact it was one of the principal abuses that led the the Bottled in Bond Act of 1897 that among other things defined what was real whisky.

Oh, it's back:

https://www.facebook.com/papas.essences

[dcbt]

Oh, it's back:

https://www.facebook.com/papas.essences

Who buys that? Seriously, who?

[TunnelTiger]

I can tell one who doesn't and that probably goes for the majority of SB members.

Now if a member does and likes it there is nothing wrong with that because we all have different tastes.

[Chris m]

That's so weird I almost want to buy it.

[mosugoji64]

Sweet! Now we can just add water to make non-alcoholic bourbon and drink all night!

[squire]

Amazing modern World we live in. Now we can buy whisky without alcohol, coffee without caffeine and cola flavored beverages with zero everything.

[tanstaafl2]

I don't drink much malt whisky, so I can't judge for myself, but Mark Gillespie talked with guys from India recently as well as Taiwan (Kavalan) and they see brutal losses to the angels. On the flip side Kavalan releases have won lots of awards and have been highly regarded at a pretty young age.

[tanstaafl2]

Google Taos Lightning Rye. Hot and dry might be interesting, but I'm not sure the effect would be what I was specifically looking for. I specifically picked Florida because it is hotter and more humid than Kentucky (and high heat and humidity TEND to cause water to evaporate faster than alcohol, though maybe not always), which appears to work well with malt whisky. Based on results of some preliminary research I've conducted on bottles from Kavalan and Amrut.

[amg]

Managed to get a bottle of the two 17yo MGP ryes from the KGB distillery in New Mexico that sourced the Taos Lightning. Not sure how long they sat in New Mexico before bottling but it was very interesting to try. Two single barrels of rye, one was OK and one was quite good. But the reported final barrel proof for each was 90. Seems to be a round number and odd that both were the same but that was the claim.

I think the law allows a 0.15% ABV variance on actual vs. labeled proof, but that's still very suspicious.

[berto]

The Lost Spirits rum I've had was all good. I tried the Navy, Polynesian, And Cuban at a tasting and the guy behind it is a mad scientist. I have some samples of his peated whisky but haven't tried them yet. I'd love to try the quickly aged rum but right now the cost is prohibitive. I'm interested in any quickly aged whiskey he creates but I think it will be a case of close but not quite. The real question is how close the flavor gets and at what price it hits the shelf. 90% of EC12 flavor can't hit the shelf at EC12 prices or above.