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Shackletons 100 year old Scotch whiskey recovered from South Pole

post #1 of 13
2/6/10 at 12:40am
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a link to the story in todays USA today
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post #2 of 13
2/6/10 at 12:45am
We can put all our money together for a bottle.
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post #3 of 13
2/6/10 at 12:47am
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We can put all our money together for a bottle.

I'm in.
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post #4 of 13
2/6/10 at 12:48am
Is that a good whiskey?
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post #5 of 13
2/6/10 at 12:54am
Shackleton knew how to roll. Had his priorities straight.
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post #6 of 13
2/6/10 at 1:08am
Probably tastes horrible, though those bottles would not be something one would drink.
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Shackleton knew how to roll. Had his priorities straight.
Indeed.
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post #7 of 13
2/6/10 at 1:11am
The brand is "Macinlay's Rare Old Scotch".
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post #8 of 13
2/6/10 at 4:41am
Imagine the conversation piece a bottle of that would make...

Hopefully they manage to replicate it, a far better use of scientific resources and know-how replicating a long-lost scotch then putting together the fossilized phallic remains of some prehistoric forefather to the modern chipmunk.
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post #9 of 13
2/6/10 at 6:32am
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Is that a good whiskey?
According to the BBC it's a blend. It was probably taken so Shackleton could boast at his club how tough things were on expedition" the worst of it was we couldn't get a decent drink"...
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post #10 of 13
2/6/10 at 7:49am
Not quite as old, but I had some whiskey from the "whiskey galore" boat and it was still pretty good. Depending on the conditions the Shakelton stuff might still be drinkable.
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post #11 of 13
2/6/10 at 6:11pm
If there's any good natural environmental way of storing Scotch, I would think it's Antartica. This is a find to whiskey lovers as was the sunken Russian reindeer skins to shoe lovers.
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post #12 of 13
2/6/10 at 8:18pm
I just skimmed through Shackleton's journal and he doesn't make much mention of any alcohol. It seems the stuff they brought along was mostly used during celebrations and for cooking (there was one entry where he described that it made the stringy meat from one of ponies named "Chinaman" more palatable).
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post #13 of 13
2/7/10 at 4:16am
Whisky or other hard spirits shouldn't age out of the barrel-- once bottled, it's more or less what it is. Unless it somehow evaporates or otherwise gets tampered with. The main interest now, I think, would be to find out what the style of making (or blending) was back then.
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