[MM-MALTS-L] CELP & seaweed

[Geert Bero]

hi all

Why don't you contact the bottler in Holland,he might tell you what the plant in the bottle is.
The Dutch really have something with weed!!

Regards
Geert
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rob Stevens 
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  Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:07 AM
  Subject: RE: [MM-MALTS-L] CELP & seaweed


  SWA did have some concerns. On the new labels it says "spirit" instead of "malt". 
  The whisky is changed into Laphroaig now.
  The plant looks like a fresh water plant, but no way our little fresh water fishes stay alive in there...
  Rob
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    Van: mm-malts-l-bounces at grsnet.net [mailto:mm-malts-l-bounces at grsnet.net]Namens Thomas Schubert
    Verzonden: donderdag 30 augustus 2007 10:59
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    Onderwerp: Re: [MM-MALTS-L] CELP & seaweed


    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 >: 
      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. 
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        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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