[MM-MALTS-L] CELP & seaweed

[Michel van Meersbergen]

Hi Lex,

I had the same reservations when I saw the bottle for the first time. It's
certainly not celp inside the bottle, I have it as Elodea canadensis
('waterpest' as we say in Holland).

AFAIK all the celp bottles have waterweed inside them.

Best!

Michel



op 30-08-2007 10:31 schreef Kraaijeveld A.R. op A.R.Kraaijeveld at soton.ac.uk:

> 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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