[MM-MALTS-L] List Administrator Query

[Paul Dejong]

There you have it...
I don¹t even qualify for a Œnear miss¹ here!  ;-)

Thanks Luc,  I knew you¹d know!
See, this is the perfect example of the kind of knowledge available here!!
I doubt very much you would get an correct answer, this fast, anywhere else!

Paul


On 23-06-2009 12:50, "Luc Timmermans (LWS)" <luc.timmermans at lindores.be>
wrote:

> hi,
> 
> The first Glenfarclas 105 was released in 1968.
> 
> Best regards,
> Luc
> 
> 2009/6/23 Paul Dejong <Paul_Dejong at telenet.be>
>> Hey Peter, and everybody else...
>> Yes I agree with the majority of the old warhorses on here: Let it remain
>> the parent of all...even if it is rarely used.
>> It is still a very valuable knowledge-base  to me, and even if we do not
>> post so often, that does not mean it is forgotten.
>> I still would rather ask a question that I have here, then anywhere
>> else...thing is, not as many questions arise these days anymore. A direct
>> consequence of the enthousiasm and knowledge once instilled with the help of
>> this list! Let it live and prosper!
>> 
>> To Peter,
>> I am pretty sure the 105 was around before 1993...If memory serves me (a bit
>> less then it used to!)  I first bought one in 1991...and I guess they were
>> available from the mid-eighties onwards...
>> Luc Timmermans 'mr. Glenfarclas' may know the exact period of introduction
>> better, Luc??
>> 
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>> On 23-06-2009 09:31, "Peter Wood" <st.peter at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>> 
>>>> >> And who else is as knowledgeablre as this list?
>>> >
>>> > Ralph you drunken bum - it is spelt knowlegdreabel
>>> >
>>> > I was a prolific (wearily so to many I'm sure) contributor to the old
>>> > Malts-L and have been very remiss in not contributing to the current
>>> > apparition (?). Be that as it may, Benhard's points - repeated below - are
>>> > valid for me:
>>> >
>>> > 1. It is nice nostalgia.
>>> > 2. It is the father (or and mother) of all this modern things.
>>> > 3. It will regain popularitiy as a niche, not to be used by every moron
>>> > that can klick with a mouse.
>>> >
>>> > Yeah - let it be so.
>>> >
>>> > And as I have a large drachma of something very tasty in my (nah, can't be
>>> > - the only Greek thingie I have in the house is a sponge bought on Piraeus
>>> > wharf in 1967) hand I shall revert to matters more consequential.
>>> > Glenfarclas 105. I hang my head in shame - all these years I have been
>>> > snootily avoiding the stuff as mass market kitsch and finally I bottle the
>>> > stuff - it's bloody lovely. When did it first appear? Charlie Mac has it
>>> in
>>> > his 1993 volume (you there Charles? can you confirm a prior apparition?).
>>> > It is a real sweety speyside slurper with abv boots on.
>>> >
>>> > And on a slightly controversial note, Glenfarclas can claim the record as
>>> > the malt with the highest NaCl content of any - far from the tide tho' it
>>> > may be.
>>> >
>>> > May the current list prosper.
>>> >
>>> > Peter Wood
>>> >
>>> >
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