Post #183924 by Rum Numb Davey on Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:32 AM

Much appreciated, Cheeky my man, Trust me...I want it to be so.
Put on your best Connery 007 routine and press for specifics. When I worked in Scotland brokering malt whisky and demerara rum, we could prove provenance and age on all stock. Legally obligated as well.
An old firm like Wray and Nephew is very unlikely to open a broom closet and trip over an ancient cask..

Warehouseman George: "Hey Stanly..look what I found under this White Stephenson Sugar bag!"
Warehouseman Stan: "Golly, George..it appears to be a very old cask of extremely desirable rum..wait a minute..something is written on here..says bound for Oakland."
Warehouseman George: "Do you think we can sneak it out to Spanish Town, and party with the Rastafarian girlies?"
Warehouseman Stan: " Naw, Mon, me thinks we should turn it over to Joy Spence, as she going to need a Luau gift for Cheeky's London bash."
Warehouseman George:" You're right that would just be too fairy tale perfect, and make all the bloody Yank Babylonians hate their lives that they are not like Madonna living the jet set lifestyle of London to Hollywood to Miami to London again."
Warehouseman Stan:" Ester, Mon...she is called Ester!"
Warehouseman George: "wha...?"
Warehouseman Stan:" Madonna is called Ester, P Diddy is just Diddy, Prince is some freaky squiggly line, and this rum cask ..the only cask left of dreams of every tiki cocktail purists in the world..we will call it Ambrosia of Imagination and Creative Numbers."
Warehouseman George: "Good name, Mon..hey let's roll it to the truck and get a jerked pork plate and a Red Stripe. All this rum talk made me thirsty."
Warehouseman Stan:" Hooray Beer!"

Just really hard to swallow that this rum was the RUM that Vic utilized oh so many years ago! Please remember....taxes..excise..lost revenue..documentation....people's jobs on the line...theft control..money. All factors in this cask, who hid himself away to avoid being consumed. The smoke as much weed in "Blue Grass" state Kentucky as the do in Jamaica, and those hilltoppers don't lose cask. They manage the distillery like Ft. Knox manages gold. Every valuable nugget accounted for.

Please follow up on the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys/Harry Potter mystery, "The Lost Cask of Azkaban."

Before the Revolution, the per capita consumption of RUM in the Colonies was 3.7 gallons PER person. We have become a Neo-temperant nation of wimps and quitters! We must rise, Tiki Nation, and raise our ceramic mugs in resistance to teatotaling!

[ Edited by: Rum Numb Davey 2005-09-02 11:33 ]

[ Edited by: Rum Numb Davey 2005-09-02 11:34 ]