Bacardi 1920's

[Evo-lution]

On a side note: I tried a green and yellow Chartreuse dating back to the 1870's the other day. Clearly Chartreuse, but different too.

This intrigues me as something like Chartreuse which is flavoured with all sorts of herbs and spices would be a completely different beast after 100+ years.

In the time I've been playing with bitters, I've noticed the flavour of the Boker's seems to smooth out within the bottle, which I assume is some sort of reaction between the volatile oils in the bottle, like they're still reacting with each other.

[Tristan]

It was different all right, I only say that it was clearly Chartreuse because the Chartreuse is so distinctive. It had lost some of its alcohol and water content over the years so it was very sweet as a result of this.

I would imagine that the change in flavour of your bitters is oxidisation, rather than volatiles reacting with each other.

[Mal]

I had a dream last night were I was going through a museum escaping zombies and i found a bottle of Bacardi dated 1928. It looked the exact same as Superior. Are Bacardi doctoring evidence in dreams ? I had a few drams from a bottle of Bacardi Reserva Limitada last night, maybe thats what done it.