[MM-MALTS-L] CELP & seaweed

[Thomas Schubert]

Hi Lex,

it does say Whisky on the label.

Should SWA be concerned about this?

Thomas

2007/8/30, Konstantin Grigoriadis <konstgrs at gmail.com>:
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>  Hi Lex,
>
> I like this Experiment, (and the Malt :-)
>
> 88 Lagavulin, (-"CELP"), "The Seaweed Experience, The Ultimate Whisky
> Company, NL", 55%
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> 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. <A.R.Kraaijeveld at soton.ac.uk>
> *To:* MaltManiacs operated former 'MALT-L' Whisky List<mm-malts-l at grsnet.net>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:31 AM
> *Subject:* [MM-MALTS-L] CELP & seaweed
>
>  Hi all
>
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> 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.
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> 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.
>
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> slainte, Lex
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> Why can't you do what they taught you
> And show what they wanted of you
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> Dr Alex R Kraaijeveld
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> School of Biological Sciences
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> University of Southampton
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> Southampton
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