[MM-MALTS-L] List Administrator Query

[Dominiek Bouckaert (LWS)]

Lurking for years, so please, Konstantin, be the host everyone wants you to
be :-).

Paul, the 40yo 105 was a sort of a hint. As I recall it was bottle to
commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 105.

Greetz,
Dominiek

2009/6/23 Paul Dejong <Paul_Dejong at telenet.be>

>  There you have it...
> I don’t even qualify for a ‘near miss’ here!  ;-)
>
> Thanks Luc,  I knew you’d 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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