Re: FW: New Zealand museum thaws 100-year-old Scotch

2010-07-22 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Alcohol has a lower freezing point than water. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Ian Skinner wrote: > >  On 7/22/2010 8:42 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: >> At least one bottle that is. >> >> I suspect that you're right. Repeated freezing and thawing would wreck >> the taste. > > But would it have re

Re: FW: New Zealand museum thaws 100-year-old Scotch

2010-07-22 Thread Ian Skinner
On 7/22/2010 8:42 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > At least one bottle that is. > > I suspect that you're right. Repeated freezing and thawing would wreck > the taste. But would it have repeatedly thawed if it was burred in Antarctic ice?

Re: FW: New Zealand museum thaws 100-year-old Scotch

2010-07-22 Thread Larry C. Lyons
At least one bottle that is. I suspect that you're right. Repeated freezing and thawing would wreck the taste. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Ray Champagne wrote: > > If the freezer smelled like Whisky, that would lead you to believe that the > bottle ain't sealed so well, right? I'm guessin

Re: FW: New Zealand museum thaws 100-year-old Scotch

2010-07-22 Thread Ray Champagne
If the freezer smelled like Whisky, that would lead you to believe that the bottle ain't sealed so well, right? I'm guessing that the product can't taste that good if that was the case. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > Unfortunately not. Who knows, it would make a grea

Re: FW: New Zealand museum thaws 100-year-old Scotch

2010-07-22 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Unfortunately not. Who knows, it would make a great fundraising tool - auctioning off several bottles from the case. Its like some of the bottles of wine that were recovered from the north sea about 15 years ago. They were from a wreck that went down around 1820 or so. No idea what the wine taste

Re: FW: New Zealand museum thaws 100-year-old Scotch

2010-07-22 Thread Vivec
Who is going to get to drink it? They claim no one is going to taste it.Not Taste it? Yeah right! On 22 July 2010 11:00, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > > The crate of whisky was recovered earlier this year - along with four > other crates containing whisky and brandy - beneath the floor of a hut >

FW: New Zealand museum thaws 100-year-old Scotch

2010-07-22 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I wonder if the freezing and the thawing will have hurt the taste of the scotch. If not then it would be incredibly smooth. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/21/AR2010072106360.html?hpid=sec-world New Zealand museum thaws 100-year-old Scotch The Associated Press Wednes