Drink Makers Drill Ice For Scotch Whiskey

Baack · Nov 16, 2009

A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.

The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition.

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

Workers from New Zealand's Antarctic Heritage Trust will use special drills to reach the crates, frozen in Antarctic ice under the Nimrod Expedition hut near Cape Royds.
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http://www.wisn.com/food/21624795/detail.html

truckerdave1970 · Nov 16, 2009

We can drill old, cheap booze but we cant drill for friggin' oil??? that makes perfect sense!

broncrider · Nov 17, 2009

yer just mad cuz they wouldnt let you taste it too............

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