Jester, you might not want to read about this, since it involves alcohol abuse worse than making eggnog using Pyrat Cask 1623.
One possibility the story doesn't mention is that it might not be an accident - it could be a SC trying to get more "bragging rights" by ensuring he and his friend are the only ones to ever drink the expensive booze.
What's the big deal with a 234 year old bottle of cognac? It's my understanding that distilled liquor is "dead", i.e. unlike wine or beer it has no inherent chemical change, merely the reaction with the barrel in which it is aged, so that bottling in glass (which is non-reactive) stops the aging process. Because of this, hard liquor that was bottled last week after 12 years in the barrel is "older" than some that was bottled 50 years ago after 4 years in the barrel.
One possibility the story doesn't mention is that it might not be an accident - it could be a SC trying to get more "bragging rights" by ensuring he and his friend are the only ones to ever drink the expensive booze.
What's the big deal with a 234 year old bottle of cognac? It's my understanding that distilled liquor is "dead", i.e. unlike wine or beer it has no inherent chemical change, merely the reaction with the barrel in which it is aged, so that bottling in glass (which is non-reactive) stops the aging process. Because of this, hard liquor that was bottled last week after 12 years in the barrel is "older" than some that was bottled 50 years ago after 4 years in the barrel.
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