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Chairman: “Gentlemen, our sales have fallen so low that a lot of the booze we planned to sell is still laying around the warehouse. What shall we do?”
Advertizing Whiz: “Easy. Just promote it as extra aging.”
@Lars Walker
Didn’t Cher try that?
@Mxymaster
Very good. Very good.
So, they blended some ten year old whisky with some more ten year old whisky? Were they trying for a happy medium?
_@_v – that’ll clean the pipes out of an irritable bear…
Ah but you haven’t had anything ’til you’ve had wine laced with cocaine! See my reference to the 19th century “Add Cocaine to everything craze” and read about Vin Mariani. This was a very interesting Ink Blotter with advertising found in an old ledger.
http://videomartyr.blogspot.com/2009/05/surrey-with-fringe-on-top.html
“The Bleat” and all the related writings of Mr Lileks continues to be my favorite read – you’re at the top of my bookmark tool bar.
“Comparable in price”, it only cost 5/4 as much as those 8-year old Scotches.
I noted the higher proof of Scotch back then. 88 rather than the 80 (and occasionally 86) which is standard today. I guess everything is watered down today.
jimrhoads:
No, you just gotta stay away from krep like no-name, blended scotch.
nobody forgot a few hogsheads of old whiskey back in the shed.
more likely, it was very bad, and had been sent to its room without supper. many, many times.
“no-name, blended scotch.” I can just see the yellow and black label, with the most prominent feature on the label being “Scotch whiskey,” and the second most prominent the bar code.
worst of all is if the quote marks around Scotch whiskey are the most prominent feature of the label.
here’s to ya, indeed.
People, please! This is a public forum. Let us watch our language and not use the word “bl_nded” along side the word “scotch.”
There are some things which are just not done.
Irritable Bear adds 8 year old scotch to 12 year old scotch to make 20 year old scotch.
I was right after all, a Dietary Aid.
@rbj It’s done quite often in Scotland, and there are some perfectly respectable blends, so you must mean, not done by American poseurs whose knowledge of Scotch comes from the how-to-be-manly tips at the front of Esquire?
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