Randy Quad
02-28-2007, 11:46 PM
dear whiskey drinkers -
two years ago the anchor steam distillery (of anchor steam brewing) put out a special edition of their Old Potrero whiskey dubbed Hotaling's Whiskey. The concept was the duplicate the san franciscan distiller's recipe as it was at the time time of the 1906 earthquake and fire. it is a rye, but aged 11 years. all the same the stuff is harsh as all hell. i wouldn't drink it with a pint of water. having given it this review i will say that there were less than 60 cases produced and most of the bottles went to restaurants as gifts for carrying other anchor steam distillery products. the stuff if extremely rare and in theory offers the chance to see if you are man enough to drink what was being consumed 100 years ago.
anywho - my neighborhood liquor store must have uncovered a long lost case or something because there are six bottles out that are selling for $70. at initial offering they went for 60 bucks, but as they grew in scarcity their price topped 200. the craze has died significantly as i've collected two already from other spots for about that price. (and i'll most likely never drink any of them).
if any one is interested i can pick up a bottle and ship it at cost. you'd do the same for me.
written on the label: One hundred years ago, earthquake, fire, and dynamite destroyed nearly 4.7 square miles of San Francisco, a swath of destruction that claimed 28,188 buildings and an incalculable number of lives. After the disaster, several clergymen asserted that the catastrophe had been divine retribution, visited upon the City by the Old Potrero Hotaling's WhiskeyBay for its wicked ways. Thanks in no small part to the pluck, resolve, and ingenuity of its staff, however, A.P. Hotaling & Co.'s Jackson Street whiskey warehouse survived. And so, "while millions of dollars worth of normally non-inflammable material was reduced to ashes," as the Argonaut would later report, thousands of "barrels of highly inflammable whisky were preserved intact in the heart of the tremendous holocaust."
After the fire, UC Berkeley Professor Jerome Barker Landfield bumped into poet and wit Charles Kellogg Field. "He accompanied me to Berkeley," Landfield recalled, "and I put him up at the Faculty Club for the night. As we walked down to the station on our way back to San Francisco, Field asked me for a blank piece of paper on which to write. I handed him a used envelope. On the back he penned these lines:
'If, as they say, God spanked the town
For being over frisky,
Why did He burn the churches down
And save Hotaling's whiskey?'"
two years ago the anchor steam distillery (of anchor steam brewing) put out a special edition of their Old Potrero whiskey dubbed Hotaling's Whiskey. The concept was the duplicate the san franciscan distiller's recipe as it was at the time time of the 1906 earthquake and fire. it is a rye, but aged 11 years. all the same the stuff is harsh as all hell. i wouldn't drink it with a pint of water. having given it this review i will say that there were less than 60 cases produced and most of the bottles went to restaurants as gifts for carrying other anchor steam distillery products. the stuff if extremely rare and in theory offers the chance to see if you are man enough to drink what was being consumed 100 years ago.
anywho - my neighborhood liquor store must have uncovered a long lost case or something because there are six bottles out that are selling for $70. at initial offering they went for 60 bucks, but as they grew in scarcity their price topped 200. the craze has died significantly as i've collected two already from other spots for about that price. (and i'll most likely never drink any of them).
if any one is interested i can pick up a bottle and ship it at cost. you'd do the same for me.
written on the label: One hundred years ago, earthquake, fire, and dynamite destroyed nearly 4.7 square miles of San Francisco, a swath of destruction that claimed 28,188 buildings and an incalculable number of lives. After the disaster, several clergymen asserted that the catastrophe had been divine retribution, visited upon the City by the Old Potrero Hotaling's WhiskeyBay for its wicked ways. Thanks in no small part to the pluck, resolve, and ingenuity of its staff, however, A.P. Hotaling & Co.'s Jackson Street whiskey warehouse survived. And so, "while millions of dollars worth of normally non-inflammable material was reduced to ashes," as the Argonaut would later report, thousands of "barrels of highly inflammable whisky were preserved intact in the heart of the tremendous holocaust."
After the fire, UC Berkeley Professor Jerome Barker Landfield bumped into poet and wit Charles Kellogg Field. "He accompanied me to Berkeley," Landfield recalled, "and I put him up at the Faculty Club for the night. As we walked down to the station on our way back to San Francisco, Field asked me for a blank piece of paper on which to write. I handed him a used envelope. On the back he penned these lines:
'If, as they say, God spanked the town
For being over frisky,
Why did He burn the churches down
And save Hotaling's whiskey?'"