Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Deleted member 268085]

That's what this stuff is for:
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I can drink the stuff right out of the bottle. That good.

I was in the booze biz after the big M dissolved into a steaming pile bigger than Jabba the Hutt, and sold several brands of Bloody Mary mix. Zing Zang is hands-down the best!

 

[Deleted member 268085]

For all of you booze afficianados out there, check out this bottle of whiskey coming up for auction!

The auction world is filled with rare bottles and casks of aged spirits. Few, though, can compare to a bottle of Old Ingledew Whiskey scheduled to go up for grabs this summer.

That’s because this bottle of the American whiskey—which will be sold by Skinner Auctioneers in June—is believed to be the world’s oldest. A recent laboratory test showed that the Old Ingledew, which originally was thought to date back to the 1850s, was instead likely bottled between 1763 and 1803.

Joseph Hyman, a spirit specialist with the auction house, teamed up with scientists from the University of Georgia and University of Glasgow to analyze the spirit earlier this year, according to a release. A sample of the liquid was taken and then tested using Carbon-14 dating, which analyzes the amount of radio carbon in an object (a similar process is being used to combat counterfeiting).

The test showed that there was an 81.1 percent probability that the whiskey was actually bottled between 1763 and 1803, putting it in the historical context of the Revolutionary War and Whiskey Rebellion. It’s also possible that the whiskey is even older, since it was aged in oak barrels then stored for several decades in large glass demijohns before it was bottled.

The Old Ingledew, which was bottled by Evans & Ragland, Grocers and Commission Merchants of LaGrange, Georgia, once belonged to Wall Street financier John Pierpont Morgan, who obtained it during a bustiness trip to the state, according to Barron’s. “It is a fascinating story,” Hyman told the publication. “The whiskey was not bottled at a distillery destroyed in the war, it is actually bottled by a general store, which is the same way the Scottish whisky Johnnie Walker started.”

Morgan’s son Jack gifted the bottle to future US Supreme Court justice and South Carolina governor James Byrnes in the early 1940s. Two other bottles of the whiskey went to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, though this is the only one that survives.

The bottle of Old Ingledew Whiskey will highlight Skinner’s online-only spirits auction during the last week of June. It’s estimated to sell for somewhere between $20,000 and $40,000, but with the whiskey’s history, don’t be surprised if it ends up selling for more.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Allergies seem particularly bad this year. Leaves your sinuses swollen, ears blocked, head not entirely there.

Sounds like a normal day for me, for decades, now.

I feel your pain. I'm nearsighted. I have bifocals, regular kind, on two pairs of glasses. One pair for most stuff, driving, reading, etc. The other pair has a weaker upper for the computer and music. Then for small, close work glasses are off. Thanks, presbyopia.

Sometimes it's weird. I can have the computer glasses on and see perfect for distance vision. That usually happens in the mornings.

Same here, to all of the above! Except, my "reading" glasses are not BF.

No problem here. I don't use the blinker. In FL, if you signal to change lanes, some ____ will cut you off.

I learned that trick when I lived in L. A.

 

[gtmalone]

I'm an old fart and I drive like one except I don't camp out in the passing lane driving under the speed limit with my blinker on.

So...the blinker is off?

 

[GonePlaid]

For all of you booze afficianados out there, check out this bottle of whiskey coming up for auction!

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The auction world is filled with rare bottles and casks of aged spirits. Few, though, can compare to a bottle of Old Ingledew Whiskey scheduled to go up for grabs this summer.

That’s because this bottle of the American whiskey—which will be sold by Skinner Auctioneers in June—is believed to be the world’s oldest. A recent laboratory test showed that the Old Ingledew, which originally was thought to date back to the 1850s, was instead likely bottled between 1763 and 1803.

Joseph Hyman, a spirit specialist with the auction house, teamed up with scientists from the University of Georgia and University of Glasgow to analyze the spirit earlier this year, according to a release. A sample of the liquid was taken and then tested using Carbon-14 dating, which analyzes the amount of radio carbon in an object (a similar process is being used to combat counterfeiting).

The test showed that there was an 81.1 percent probability that the whiskey was actually bottled between 1763 and 1803, putting it in the historical context of the Revolutionary War and Whiskey Rebellion. It’s also possible that the whiskey is even older, since it was aged in oak barrels then stored for several decades in large glass demijohns before it was bottled.

The Old Ingledew, which was bottled by Evans & Ragland, Grocers and Commission Merchants of LaGrange, Georgia, once belonged to Wall Street financier John Pierpont Morgan, who obtained it during a bustiness trip to the state, according to Barron’s. “It is a fascinating story,” Hyman told the publication. “The whiskey was not bottled at a distillery destroyed in the war, it is actually bottled by a general store, which is the same way the Scottish whisky Johnnie Walker started.”

Morgan’s son Jack gifted the bottle to future US Supreme Court justice and South Carolina governor James Byrnes in the early 1940s. Two other bottles of the whiskey went to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, though this is the only one that survives.

The bottle of Old Ingledew Whiskey will highlight Skinner’s online-only spirits auction during the last week of June. It’s estimated to sell for somewhere between $20,000 and $40,000, but with the whiskey’s history, don’t be surprised if it ends up selling for more.

Hmm. I wonder what would be a good mixer for that.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Hmm. I wonder what would be a good mixer for that.

Yoo-hoo

 

[GonePlaid]

Yoo-hoo

 

[gtmalone]

For all of you booze afficianados out there, check out this bottle of whiskey coming up for auction!

View attachment 4250589

The auction world is filled with rare bottles and casks of aged spirits. Few, though, can compare to a bottle of Old Ingledew Whiskey scheduled to go up for grabs this summer.

That’s because this bottle of the American whiskey—which will be sold by Skinner Auctioneers in June—is believed to be the world’s oldest. A recent laboratory test showed that the Old Ingledew, which originally was thought to date back to the 1850s, was instead likely bottled between 1763 and 1803.

Joseph Hyman, a spirit specialist with the auction house, teamed up with scientists from the University of Georgia and University of Glasgow to analyze the spirit earlier this year, according to a release. A sample of the liquid was taken and then tested using Carbon-14 dating, which analyzes the amount of radio carbon in an object (a similar process is being used to combat counterfeiting).

The test showed that there was an 81.1 percent probability that the whiskey was actually bottled between 1763 and 1803, putting it in the historical context of the Revolutionary War and Whiskey Rebellion. It’s also possible that the whiskey is even older, since it was aged in oak barrels then stored for several decades in large glass demijohns before it was bottled.

The Old Ingledew, which was bottled by Evans & Ragland, Grocers and Commission Merchants of LaGrange, Georgia, once belonged to Wall Street financier John Pierpont Morgan, who obtained it during a bustiness trip to the state, according to Barron’s. “It is a fascinating story,” Hyman told the publication. “The whiskey was not bottled at a distillery destroyed in the war, it is actually bottled by a general store, which is the same way the Scottish whisky Johnnie Walker started.”

Morgan’s son Jack gifted the bottle to future US Supreme Court justice and South Carolina governor James Byrnes in the early 1940s. Two other bottles of the whiskey went to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, though this is the only one that survives.

The bottle of Old Ingledew Whiskey will highlight Skinner’s online-only spirits auction during the last week of June. It’s estimated to sell for somewhere between $20,000 and $40,000, but with the whiskey’s history, don’t be surprised if it ends up selling for more.

I'm confused. Was it bottled or actually bottled? The writer of the text actually missed several actual opportunities to actually use the word actually.

The bidder should be aware that the more they pay, the better it will taste.

 

[gtmalone]

Hmm. I wonder what would be a good mixer for that.

Mountain Dew!

 

[beans-on-toast]

No problem here. I don't use the blinker. In FL, if you signal to change lanes, some ____ will cut you off.

Using a turning signal only gives an advantage to the competition on the road behind you.

 

[GonePlaid]

Using a turning signal only gives an advantage to the competition on the road behind you.

Now, when I was driving the 18 wheeler, I'd hit the turn signal and start over. Most 4 wheelers would think about it b4 trying to cut off 80,000 pounds.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Hmm. I wonder what would be a good mixer for that.

With a fine whiskey the recommended mixer is a threat of water. Anything else is considered sacrilege.

 

[Polish Thunder]

I bet that bottle of old whiskey tastes really good....NOT!

I was going to post the classic video of the guy drinking the old bottle of Crystal Pepsi but he ends up getting sick after drinking it.

I can't handle any form of vomit. Anything that has to do with the sight, sound, smell, (or video) of someone throwing up and I am outta here!

Feel free to look it up at you own risk...

 

[GonePlaid]

With a fine whiskey the recommended mixer is a threat of water. Anything else is considered sacrilege.

I may have been facetious about the mixer idea.

 

[Passinwind]

I was in the booze biz after the big M dissolved into a steaming pile bigger than Jabba the Hutt, and sold several brands of Bloody Mary mix. Zing Zang is hands-down the best!

A local friend I jam with occasionally makes these: The Products | Lyle Style

She had a couple of killer taste tests for the marg mix before it went to market, I completely aced the blind testing and the lime mix base I recommended beforehand as a control was the clear winner. I don't think she was able to use it in the final product though, it was just Newman's Own organic limeade.

 

[GonePlaid]

I bet that bottle of old whiskey tastes really good....NOT!

I was going to post the classic video of the guy drinking the old bottle of Crystal Pepsi but he ends up getting sick after drinking it.

I can't handle any form of vomit. Anything that has to do with the sight, sound, smell, (or video) of someone throwing up and I am outta here!

Feel free to look it up at you own risk...

Mighta had the same reaction to a new bottle of that[stuff].

 

[Passinwind]

Hmm. I wonder what would be a good mixer for that.

The Insinkerator?

 

[beans-on-toast]

I may have been facetious about the mixer idea.

A favourite Beatle drink was coke-cola and whiskey. Then there’s beer with a whiskey chaser.

 

[SoulReflection]

Using a turning signal only gives an advantage to the competition on the road behind you.

Yes, being in California, I most times find it best not to telegraph you intent...

 

[gtmalone]

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