[MM-MALTS-L] Teaspooned IB Single Casks from named distilleries

[john marrinan]

...and then dilute it one million times with water. Advocates of this
homeopathic whisky will still insist you can get drunk on it.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Kraaijeveld A.R. <
A.R.Kraaijeveld at soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> And double-teaspooning!
>
> First, take a cask of distillery X and teaspoon it with distillery Y. THEN
> take a teaspoon of that and add it to a cask of distillery Z!
>
> And you can continue this until there basically is no molecule of the first
> teaspoon left in the final cask, which of course means it then has the
> strongest effect as the whisky has a memory which remembers the first
> addition!
>
> Or so I'm told ....
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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>  Subject: RE: [MM-MALTS-L] Teaspooned IB Single Casks from named
> distilleries
>
> Hey Ralph,
>
> great idea - could be a hype like finishing !
>
> Macallan teaspooned with Glenlossie
> Macallan teaspooned with Linkwood
>
> Premium-Teaspooning
>
> Highland Park teaspooned with Springbank
>
> Bunnahabhain teaspooned with Rosebank and finished in south hungarian white
> wine cask formerly used to mature white rum (my favourite ;-))
>
> Endless opportunities...
>
> Looking forward to it (Nah - not really...)
> Michael
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Ralph Katzenell ralphoosh at 012.net.il
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:21:28 +0300
> To: mm-malts-l at grsnet.net
> Subject: [MM-MALTS-L] Teaspooned IB Single Casks from named distilleries
>
>
>
> Greetings all.
>
> There is a story that the Edrington are intending vigorously enforce a
> policy of not releasing attributable casks outside the group. All casks
> will, from some time in the very near future, be "teaspooned". No more IB
> bottlings. Suppression of trade.
>
> Is there a "work-around"?
>
> OK, so they "teaspoon" a cask. Is it a fair guess that teaspooning will not
> alter the essential characteristics in any noticeable way?
> Suppose you were to create a new class of whisky, the Teaspoon series.
> For example, you can get a "Pure Malt" from a teaspooned cask of Macallan,
> 18 yo from a sherry butt. You declare the usual details, and include the
> fact that it has been teaspooned from an unknown distillery.
> Think of the interest that such bottlings would generate.
> I predict the following:
> 1) The punters will buy.
> 2) It will establish a new category of whisky.
> 3) Your access to potential stock is enhanced.
> 4) Lots to gossip about, lots of interest.
>
> Offer me a teaspooned pure malt with semi believable tasting notes, I'll
> give it a whirl.
>
> At the far reaches of wild thought, it might even generate a "spoiled cod
> fish" trade effect!!
>
> Ralph
>
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