My father just told me about a retirement gift my grandfather got when he retired from the FDNY in 1976. They were 2 "statues", like the attached photo, full of whiskey. I don't drink or know much about whiskey but I am curious if its still good to drink. I know obviously aged whiskey is a good thing but I don't know if aging necessarily takes place in a ceramic statue with a cork in the top or if it has just gone bad at this point. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Leave it alone, go out and get another bottle
When my grandfather died, I was cleaning out his house and I found a bottle of grain alcohol in his bar that looked like it was from prohibition era. It had a plain-ish label that said Grain alcohol 190 proof and said "for industrial and medicinal purposes only" so my friends and I mixed it with grape kool-aid and made grain alcohol "grape apes".
there was a lot of puking that night.
good times.
After doing a little searching it seems that "Lionstone was a decanter company that decided to bottle its own decanters with whiskey bought from distilleries in Kentucky. They did not make their own whiskey." Seems they made all different types of statues. Learn something new every day.
pretty sure any value it has is exclusive of the liquid inside. In fact might even be worth more empty. Try it yourself first, if you don't die, have a drinking party as tribute to your grandfather.
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It's worth so much more for sentimental and cash value if left alone
pretty sure any value it has is exclusive of the liquid inside. In fact might even be worth more empty. Try it yourself first, if you don't die, have a drinking party as tribute to your grandfather.
I think you're correct. Checked into it today and all recommended it be empty
When I drank the 3rd duck I got sick as fuck.(ha that rhymes)
There was some type of adhesive holding these things together that had gotten in the booze.
And yes I have an alcohol problem.