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Vintage Whiskey May Be Poured Out
Law Requires Officials Destroy Whiskey That Cannot Be Sold Legally:
http://www.wsmv.com/news/14608054/detail.html

It'd kill me too!

That is pretty sad, but then Jack Daniel's isn't that great anyway.

I happen to think their Single Barrel is pretty good stuff. ^

I bet this stuff is even better! I could see if it was cocaine or some illegal drug, but they should auction it off for charity. This is why I could no be a police officer. Shoot someone, maybe. Waste vintage whiskey, no way.

Why would you post this? I didn't need to cry today!

Can't it be exported to somewhere where it could be sold legally?

I'm sure someone could make a fortune taking it to China.... that 'someone' could be beneficiaries of an orphans and widows fund, for instance.

A crying shame, on so many levels.

Might be time for your emergency kit:

two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers . . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls"

Although, Nashville might not be a good town for psychodelic drugs. Menancing vibrations are all around.

Agreed, as a child of BNA who thankfully lives elsewhere. This incident illustrates one of the conundrums of Middle Tennessee, where SBC/CofC/assorted Fundie moralism becomes institutionalized and seemingly trumps all...after all, JD is distilled and aged in a dry county. And the BNA area isn't called "Protestant Vatican" for nothing :rolleyes:

And this comes from a BNA native who doesn't even like the taste of Jack (I go for scotch whisky, aged tequilas and gold rums meself). That being said, paraphrasing Goldwater:

Did AuH2O actually say that? Bravo to him.

I would suspect most states have similar laws.

MisterNice

I can't believe that antique whiskey bottles with whicky sitll on board sells for multi thousands of bucks!

I love Jack, but wouldnt spend the money to buy at auction.

It is still a shame to pour it down the drain.

Like one article said Jack didnt do anything, punish the people, keep the Jack@:-)

Couldn't it go into a 'Prohibition Museum' as an exhibit, to illustrate how liquor licensing and policing works? :)

Do you like that as a future tourism attraction to a 'Sin City'?

No matter whether you're a drinker or not, I am by the way, but pouring it out doesn't punish the guy selling it illegally. It punishes both the consumer and the industry in my eyes. I agree that you could auction for charity.
A real shame!

i think they should just sell it and let the money go to a charity.

For stuff this valuable ($1million) TN should pass a one-off law allowing the state to sell the stuff.

Never been great the couple of times I've tried to be honest.

Hunter S. Thompson, is that you??