[MM-MALTS-L] CELP & seaweed

[Kraaijeveld A.R.]

Thanks Konstantin!

 

You've got a bottle from another batch, as the label of my bottle says
'Single Islay Spirit' (i.e. does not mention the word 'whisky'). The
batch from which my bottle comes is said to be a vatting of Lagavulin
and Laphroaig (although that would not fit with the word 'single' on the
label), whereas the first batch was said to be Lagavulin only.

 

The plant in your bottle looks identical to the one in my bottle, i.e.
not seaweed.

 

 

slainte, Lex

 

 

 

 

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School of Biological Sciences

University of Southampton

Bassett Crescent East

Southampton

SO16 7PX

United Kingdom

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From: mm-malts-l-bounces at grsnet.net
[mailto:mm-malts-l-bounces at grsnet.net] On Behalf Of Konstantin
Grigoriadis
Sent: 30 August 2007 09:49
To: MaltManiacs operated former 'MALT-L' Whisky List
Subject: Re: [MM-MALTS-L] CELP & seaweed

 

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

 

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	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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	Fly, you greatest fool
	Why can't you say what they want you to
	Why can't you do what they taught you
	And show what they wanted of you      
	       
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

	 

	Dr Alex R Kraaijeveld

	School of Biological Sciences

	University of Southampton

	Bassett Crescent East

	Southampton

	SO16 7PX

	United Kingdom

	tel: (+44)-(0)23-80593436

	fax: (+44)-(0)23-80594459

	http://www.sbs.soton.ac.uk/staff/ark/ark.php
<http://www.sbs.soton.ac.uk/staff/ark/ark.php> 

	 

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