SV: [MM-MALTS-L] CELP & seaweed

[Markvardsen, Martin]

Okay....got the answer....thanks.....

 

Martin

 

 

 

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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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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	From: Kraaijeveld A.R. <mailto:A.R.Kraaijeveld at soton.ac.uk>  

	To: MaltManiacs operated former 'MALT-L' Whisky List <mailto:mm-malts-l at grsnet.net>  

	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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	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      
	       
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	Dr Alex R Kraaijeveld

	School of Biological Sciences

	University of Southampton

	Bassett Crescent East

	Southampton

	SO16 7PX

	United Kingdom

	tel: (ჸ)-(0)23-80593436

	fax: (ჸ)-(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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