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Man opens whiskey saved 17 years—instantly learns hard lesson

Ha! i have some stuff in my cupboard from the mid 1990's. It is there because i rarely, if ever, pull them out to have any. They just sit in the dark getting older.
most notable is a half of a 1.75 of Jack. it has a different proof then the newer stuff. It is better then the newer stuff, but thats not because it is better or aged better, it is because the new stuff has become the mcdonald's of whiskey.
I have other stuff I like better. So my son will probably inherit that half a bottle years from now.
There is a bottle of Christian Brothers brandy from the late 1980's up there that came from the farm house when we cleaned it out. No, I doubt that is magically good now either.

I agree with others, just drink it if you have it and like it. Life is short. Will it taste better when you are a wrinkled old man? When friends that you could have shared it with have passed? If it is a hobby, try new ones out and keep a bit of your favorites on hand. Limited edition? No time like now to see what the fuss is about.
I don't drink much harder stuff at all. So I don't buy much harder stuff at all. A few here and there over the years to try and share with family on holidays, that sort of thing. Never to save. It is not an investment. Enjoy it while you can.
 
Detective D said:
They just sit in the dark getting older.
most notable is a half of a 1.75 of Jack.
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Sorry to disappoint ....but whisky stops aging once it is removed from the barrel and put into a bottle.

Only wine ages in the bottle.

Wine gets better with age...to a degree, then it reverts to vinegar.

Whisky gets no worse or better with time spent in the bottle. The worst that can happen is that the Angels get more than their fair share of the contents if the owner doesn't drink it first.
 
I bought this over 30 years ago and never opened it. Been sitting in the back of a closet most of the time.
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Since I haven't drank in over 10 years, back in the closet it goes.
 
I’ve never been a connoisseur of hard liquor. Ever since I was a teenager (pre-teen probably) I drank liquor for one reason, to get hammered. We drank anything we could get our hands on!

Once when I was working in my garage, I saw a couple of young guys driving down the road slowly looking in my ditch. When they saw me they took off. I went out to see what they were looking for and there was a bottle of whiskey in a paper bag, don’t remember what kind and I didn’t care. They must have chucked it out for some reason. Almost a full bottle. Their loss, my gain!

We used to drink El Toro tequila. I was amazed at how good Jose Cuervo was when I tasted it. I’ve since learned that it’s laughed at in the tequila world.

My dad loved single malt scotch. I would drink it with him on occasion. It tasted like scotch to me.

Beer is another matter. I love the good stuff and have a pretty good taste for it.

Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it) I don’t drink alcohol at all anymore.
Too many ill effects on my health and life. I’ve had more than my share.
 
I didn't reread every post, to see if anyone mentioned it
(sort of from the wine crowd, I'm not a wine drinker)
but;
booze bottles, they need to be set on their side & cork kept wet
if stored for long periods of time, rotate like 90*s every few months
pref. not in sunlight either, a cool dark place

I don't have much booze here ever, my dad is an alky/recovering alky (still)
I don't have it around to even temp him now
what booze I do buy, I usually keep at my neighbors house (he knows the deal)
I go there for a drink every blue moon :poke: if even that,
usually when working on his Jeep

carry on, imbibe for me
 
Budnicks said:
I didn't reread every post, to see if anyone mentioned it
(sort of from the wine crowd, I'm not a wine drinker)
but;
booze bottles, they need to be set on their side & cork kept wet
if stored for long periods of time, rotate like 90*s every few months
pref. not in sunlight either, a cool dark place

I don't have much booze here ever, my dad is an alky/recovering alky (still)
I don't have it around to even temp him now
what booze I do buy, I usually keep at my neighbors house (he knows the deal)
I go there for a drink every blue moon :poke: if even that,
usually when working on his Jeep

carry on, imbibe for me
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The high alcohol content can degrade the corks. They do recommend tipping the bottle every few months to wet the cork. I don't know of anyone that does that though and even the distilleries store the barrels with the bungs up on the dry side of the barrel. Sometimes for 20 years or more for Scotches.
 
toolmanmike said:
Not a problem. I feel the same way. Something I would like 1 bottle of is unobtanium and I hear someone bought a case somehow. As an example, I was standing talking to a store manager the day a barrel pick came in. I had one bottle. A fellow came in, grabbed a cart and loaded up 6 1/2 cases not leaving much for others. I said to the manager "what about all your regular customers. They don't have a chance at a bottle." The guy apparently was part of the group that did the picking and took orders for that many bottles. Most stores around here have to enter a raffle with the State to get just 1 bottle. Often times the State only get's a case or two of the allocated bottles to be divided between 99 counties and hundreds of stores. You rarely find one of those bottles that hits the shelf.
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Isn't there some whiskey or bourbon 'Perrywinkle' or something like that,
I think it was 2 words, that was one IIRC
after they got robbed, by a local govt. official (I think it goes)
that is supposed to be the cats meow, for old whiskey's/bourbon's (?)
even the reproduced stuff
I actually saw it talked about on the show 'Moonshiners'',
IIRC on one of their holiday specials
 
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