Hello Bj”rn.

16 Apr 03 08:31, you wrote to Raymond Yates:

 RY>> And that'd be 10 years /minimum/... first, you need to tke tose
 RY>> oak barrels and use them to age port for about, oh, 50-60 years
 RY>> or so. /Then? they'll be suitable for ageing a proper drink...

 BF> If you didn' know, we have oaks here in Sweden that are up to 1 000
 BF> years old so what will another 50 or 60 years do? And then we have the
 BF> Wasa ship, built in 1626-28 and sunk at her maiden trip and rescued in
 BF> 1961. Will the oak from this ship do?

Och, ye daft Norrsemaan! Ye've /nae/ clue how tu make propar Scotch!


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