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

[Robert Karlsson]

My toast tonight to you Michael (Glenlivet 1972 and Glenmorangie 30yo).

Robert.


On 8/30/07, Geert Bero <geert.bero at skynet.be> wrote:
> 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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>
> 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
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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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