[MM-MALTS-L] The Big Toast - malts-L's tribute to Michael Jackson

[Geert Bero]

Hi All,

I will raise my glass to Michaels memory and I will open a huge bottle for a 
huge man.
Ardbeg MOR 57.3%

Slainte Michael RIP

Geert


----- 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 8:42 PM
Subject: [MM-MALTS-L] The Big Toast - malts-L's tribute to Michael Jackson


Dear all

I feel it would be fitting for malts-L to have its own tribute to Michael 
Jackson. What I thought we could do is to have as many people as possible 
raising a glass to his memory. Let me know which dram you've chosen and I'll 
collate everything for a write-up.

To kick things off, for me it had to be a Macallan. But I couldn't chose, so 
will be raising three glasses tonight:

Macallan 1989 (Dewar Rattray)
Macallan 1987 (Signatory)
Macallan 21 y.o. (Scott's Selection)


Come on, let's make this a really big toast!
Lex

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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
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-----Original Message-----
From: mm-malts-l-bounces at grsnet.net on behalf of Michel van Meersbergen
Sent: Thu 30/08/2007 18:24
To: MaltManiacs operated former 'MALT-L' Whisky List
Subject: Re: [MM-MALTS-L] CELP & seaweed

Hi Brian,

Just two things, and as a Dutchmen I have to do this... ;-)

The 'Fishky' is from Berlin, Germany and it's a Bruichladdich... Irony in
it's most perfect form...

Cheers!

Michel


op 30-08-2007 19:15 schreef professormalt at comcast.net op
professormalt at comcast.net:

> I am somewhat bemused by this, the longest thread so far in the fledgling
> MALTS-L Mk..II.  I can attest to the integrity of the Van Wees clan and 
> the
> fact that they did not expect people to take any of this seriously. I 
> guess
> you have to understand Dutch humor a little bit.  The whole thing, the 
> weed,
> the "seaweed experience" the little lore on the label, its all a farce, or 
> as
> the Brits put it, a piss take on the whole trend to produce an "altered"
> whisky.
>
> The last time I was in the shop they had a new one "Fishky Whisky" to
> celebrate that most Dutch of all celebrations, the new Herring harvest.  A
> perfectly good Bunna "finished" in a herring barrel, brilliant!
>
> I thought they had somewhat cleverly gotten around the SWA, by not 
> uttering
> "Scotch Whisky" nor mentioning "Scotland" anywhere on the label "distilled 
> and
> bottled in the EU".  Does the SWA hold the cards to any appelation of 
> "single
> malt......whisky"?  To me, the most disreputable thing about the whole kit 
> and
> kaboodle is the price that these are pulling down at the auctions!
>
> Sláinte,
> Brian
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: Paul Dejong <Paul_Dejong at telenet.be>
> Hi Lex and all,
>
> Celp indeed contains a fresh-water plant called elodia, but don,t go down 
> the
> path of a "conspiracy theory?
> The whole thing started of more or less as a joke, and Van Wees had no 
> idea
> the thing would be so succesfull. The first batch was indeed labelled
> "whisky?, but the SWA had their say about it, and they had to change it 
> into
> scottish spirit.
>
> Expect it to taste like a young islay should, an islay that is maybe a 
> little
> "green? because of it,s youth. ;-)
> And I,m sure they were not trying to hoodwink the customer! I think they 
> saw
> it as a fun way of riding the wave of the "finishes?!
>
> My 2p,
> Paul
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