[MM-MALTS-L] List Administrator Query

Tue Jun 23 16:00:12 CEST 2009

On 23-06-2009 14:59, "Kraaijeveld A.R." <A.R.Kraaijeveld at soton.ac.uk> wrote:

³just knowing it¹s there to get in touch with a bunch of old friends at the
click of a mouse is a good thing.²

Nicely said!

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> From: mm-malts-l-bounces at grsnet.net [mailto:mm-malts-l-bounces at grsnet.net] On
> Behalf Of Paul Dejong
> Sent: 23 June 2009 13:54
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> Subject: Re: [MM-MALTS-L] List Administrator Query
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> Hi Dominiek,
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> Like you point out, I could/should have known that! However, to my own defense
> I should remark that I have never been that interested in the history /
> provenance  of different bottles...I am no collectable-collector, but a
> drinking fellow, as you very well know! ;-)
> But thanks for the enlightnement (?) anyway!  ;-)
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> See, example nr. 2! Konstantin!
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> Paul 
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> On 23-06-2009 14:31, "Dominiek Bouckaert (LWS)"
> <dominiek.bouckaert at lindores.be> wrote:
> Lurking for years, so please, Konstantin, be the host everyone wants you to be
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> Paul, the 40yo 105 was a sort of a hint. As I recall it was bottle to
> commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 105.
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> Greetz,
> Dominiek
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> 2009/6/23 Paul Dejong <Paul_Dejong at telenet.be>
> There you have it...
> I don¹t even qualify for a Œnear miss¹ here!  ;-)
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> 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!
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> Paul
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> On 23-06-2009 12:50, "Luc Timmermans (LWS)" <luc.timmermans at lindores.be>
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> hi,
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> The first Glenfarclas 105 was released in 1968.
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> Best regards,
> Luc
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> 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!
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> 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??
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> Paul
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> On 23-06-2009 09:31, "Peter Wood" <st.peter at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
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>>> >> And who else is as knowledgeablre as this list?
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>> > Ralph you drunken bum - it is spelt knowlegdreabel
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>> > 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:
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>> > 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.
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>> > Yeah - let it be so.
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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.
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>> > May the current list prosper.
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>> > Peter Wood
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