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What to do with a 50 year old bottle of Scotch?
04 September 2020, 01:20
Big Wonderful WyomingWhat to do with a 50 year old bottle of Scotch?
About 20 years ago someone gave me a bottle of scotch that was 40 years old.
It has been in the little bottle for 40 years.
It is a 1980's vintage Glenrothes.
I want to make some vanilla out of part of it, as I think it would be really good for that.
Anyone ever done that?
I know people are going to cry about using a $300-600 bottle of scotch for such a strange idea.
04 September 2020, 01:48
Opus1If it is a 40 year old bottle of single malt Glenrothes, then it's worth $4,100 (or more) a bottle. Doesn't matter how long you have had it as long as it has the original seal.
If all that is true, it would be best to sell it, buy a bottle of vanilla and pocket the remaining $4,098.23.
Or you could give it to me and I will send you 10 bottles of the finest vanilla extract on the planet.
BTW - What you are suggesting is like taking a Lamborghini Aventador and hooking up a Bush Hog behind it to cut your lawn.
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04 September 2020, 04:26
Big Wonderful WyomingWhere are you getting these prices?
I just looked at it, I thought it was bottled in 91, I was mistaken.
Here is the gouge on it:
It was distilled in 1989 and bottled in 2002, making it 31.
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05 September 2020, 01:34
craigsterquote:
It's only worth what someone will pay for it.
05 September 2020, 02:14
Opus1It's worth 10 bottles of vanilla.
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05 September 2020, 05:45
Big Wonderful WyomingI think shipping is the problem, you have to have some kind of license to ship alcohol, and to receive it.
I found some outfits that buy alcohol and are all in the UK.
05 September 2020, 07:47
Big Wonderful Wyomingquote:
Originally posted by Opus1:
It's worth 10 bottles of vanilla.
Then I'll make 10 bottles of vanilla out of it.
09 September 2020, 10:03
NormanConquestSomewhere there is a guy in a kilt rolling over in his grave.
Never mistake motion for action.
23 September 2020, 18:09
KenscoThis should move to the Humor Forum.
23 September 2020, 20:10
Macs BScotch whiskey like most spirits isn't aged in the bottle. A whiskey that was distilled in 1989 and bottled in 2002 is considered to be a 12 to 14 year old bottle of whiskey.
A bottle that was distilled in 1960 and bottled in 2000 would be a 40 year old whiskey and correspondingly expensive and rare.
Macs B
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24 September 2020, 00:33
nopride2You could just drink it.
Dave
24 September 2020, 01:09
Opus1Guys, I am in the middle of a very delicate negotiation here and you're not helping with comments like "just drink it".
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25 September 2020, 08:05
bentaframeWait until the day after the election and drink it quickly !! Your going to need it regardless of the outcome !
07 October 2020, 04:45
Gale JohnsonBring it to DSC and we can all drink it together, does that sound better?
07 October 2020, 12:21
SpicyCrabDipYep... I'm all for drinking it.
11 October 2020, 05:50
Big Wonderful WyomingEh, I looked at it a couple of days ago. Still has the label intact.
I have zero reason to go to DSC, SCI, Sheep or any other convention with no outfitters at it.
If I kill an elk on the 2nd to last week of October, I am going to open it when I get home.
I had planned on having some when I retired from the military, but it didn't happen as me and the bottle were seperated by about 10,000 miles.
2020 has been a good year for me. New job (and a substantial promotion), killed a nice free range Aoudad in West Texas, and hopefully I can close out the year with this bull elk in the gila.