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Monday, November 30, 2009

DRILLING FOR ... SCOTCH??


A team of Antarctic adventurers will soon set off on a mission to drill through Antarctic ice to find crates of whiskey that were abandoned during a 1909 polar expedition.

British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton had two crates of the now-defunct McKinlay and Co. whiskey shipped to his Antarctic base near Cape Royds 100 years ago. They were stashed under the floorboards - presumably to hide them from inquisitive penguins - and somehow abandoned, until restoration workers rediscovered them during work on his hut in 2006.

Whyte & Mackay, the beverage group that now owns McKinlay and Co., has asked for a sample of the 100-year-old hooch for a series of tests that could decide whether to relaunch the now-defunct scotch.

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2 comments:

  1. "It's been laying there lonely and neglected. It should come back to Scotland where it was born." -- There's a man who loves his scotch.

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  2. 100 year old scotch buried under 100 years worth of ice. Those men are determined and completely crazy. Love it.

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