[MM-MALTS-L] CELP & seaweed

[Konstantin Grigoriadis]

Hi Lex,

I like this Experiment, (and the Malt :-)

88 Lagavulin, (-"CELP"), "The Seaweed Experience, The Ultimate Whisky Company, NL", 55% 

Here is a pic of my bottle : 
http://www.grsnet.net/whisky/images/stories/bottle_images/p1010030.jpg

Cheers,
Konstantin

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kraaijeveld A.R. 
  To: MaltManiacs operated former 'MALT-L' Whisky List 
  Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:31 AM
  Subject: [MM-MALTS-L] CELP & seaweed


  Hi all

   

  I got a bottle of "CELP - Seaweed Experience" for a tasting I'll be running at the university later this year. For those who have never heard of this one, it's either a young Lagavulin or a vatting of Lagavulin and Laphroaig to which seaweed is added. So legally it's not whisky anymore and the label doesn't claim that it is.

   

  The spirit is clearly greenish and there is a twig of a plant floating in the bottle (bottle won't be opened until the tasting). Now as soon as I saw the twig, I got suspicious. To me, the plant which is floating in the bottle looks remarkably like Common or Brazilian Waterweed, which is a very common freshwater plant. Does not grow in the sea and is not a seaweed by any stretch of the (botanical) imagination. I've attached a small picture of this plant and I'm asking those of you who have/had a bottle of CELP to tell me whether the plant inside the bottle looks like the plant in the picture. Just so I know whether all CELP bottles contain waterweed rather than a seaweed or whether there ARE indeed CELP bottles with (possible) seaweed.

   

   

  slainte, Lex

   

   

   

   

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