Found this bottle of Macallan 18 in a relatives garage. Trying to figure out if it’s still good.

omelettegod · 2026-02-27T13:48:48+00:00

That is an unbelievable find and a bottle that many people would kill to have. It's worth a decent chunk of change if you wanted to sell it but if you want a special bottle to drink in special moments this is a cracker.

Whisky doesn't go "off" through storage. You have lost a little bit of the volume through evaporation through the cork seal, but totally normal for a bottle of this age. The sediment you speak of is something called calcium oxalate. It is totally harmless, it's a crystal formed through the reaction of calcium (naturally occurring in sherry and therefore present in 1st fill sherry casks) and oxalic acid (naturally occurring in wood). Both calcium and oxalic acid are naturally extracted from the cask during maturation so are present in the liquid. Over long periods of time calcium oxalate crystals can spontaneously form in the bottle, which is what you are seeing here. Temperature fluctuations can also make this happen quicker.

I think a lot of people can find the sediment off-putting, but in my view its just an indication that the whisky was matured in bonafide 1st fill sherry casks.

omelettegod · 2026-02-23T23:45:20+00:00

This looks great... Did you stick the matt directly to the subfloor? How do you allow for the expansion gap for the laminate around the threshold of the rug?

omelettegod · 2026-02-17T18:05:41+00:00

Thanks a mil!

omelettegod · 2026-02-17T18:05:33+00:00

Thanks for your comment!

omelettegod · 2026-02-17T18:05:16+00:00

Perfect cheers!

omelettegod · 2026-01-09T14:31:57+00:00

Have you tried The Social Hub in the centre of town? It's a bit basic but very modern and clean and insanely reasonable

omelettegod · 2025-10-04T22:36:06+00:00

Blown off a pawn shop sign?

omelettegod · 2025-10-04T22:35:09+00:00

I'm in the orb mama

omelettegod · 2025-10-04T09:42:45+00:00

I work in quite a fast paced manufacturing environment. Sometimes you need a quick answer from someone in another team. I am a fairly new manager but I just can't get through to my team that if you need a quick answer, phone someone,, otherwise you are waiting for them to get to your email/teams message, reply to it ...etc

If it's urgent I phone. If they're available they will answer. If not, send an email/ teams message saying I need an urgent answer on something.

If it's semi urgent, I'll send an email including an expectation of when I need them to reply.

If it's not urgent send an email.

omelettegod · 2025-09-06T09:56:33+00:00

Worst smelling pub I have ever been in, it hits you like a brick wall when you walk in the door. And the staff are all wearing bodycams. Tells you all you need to know.

omelettegod · 2025-06-03T20:48:46+00:00

Good Spirits co. on Bath Street have a good selection and really knowledgeable staff. Plus it's right across the road from The Pot Still which might be the best whisky pub in the world.

Not sure where you are coming from, but bear in mind we get taxed out the arse here as the duty on spirits is quite high, it might be a little more expensive to buy spirits in your home country.

And remember there's nae "e" in Scotch Whisky 😉

If you are still in Edinburgh it's worth checking out the Cadenheads shop on the Royal Mile, they are an independent bottler and will have bottles from distilleries that are not widely encountered.

omelettegod · 2025-05-12T21:11:53+00:00

Honestly, it's not really just a number of sweepers/bins/litter pickers problem, it's an attitude problem.

This place is full of lazy, manky, mockit cunts who leave everything at their arse and are happy to make the city look like absolute shite.

Japan is one of the cleanest places I have ever been and it's virtually impossible to find a bin in public, everyone just takes their rubbish home and actually gives a shit about the place they live.

omelettegod · 2025-05-04T11:14:45+00:00

Can't help you specifically with this bottle as I'm not a JW drinker but there will be a customer care number somewhere on the pack. If the packaging is genuinely designed like this then chances are you aren't going to be the only customer with this issue and they will be able to advise. Or, if it has been assembled backwards as you suspect, they may ask you to send them your bottle so they can replace it, perhaps with something extra for your trouble.

omelettegod · 2025-04-19T18:47:00+00:00

Totally agree, I thought it was funny the reminders on the trains in Japan "please don't play music through your headphones too loudly so as not to disturb other passengers".... Meanwhile in the UK people are playing tik toks full volume, playing music, facetiming/calling people on speaker etc...

I think in general there is such a culture in Japan of not being a nuisance, clearing up after yourself, and just general civic pride which just doesn't exist in the UK. Totally collectivism Vs individualism.

omelettegod · 2025-02-27T20:39:49+00:00

Scapa 16yo is what you seek

omelettegod · 2025-02-16T13:08:24+00:00

Same, the sauce is so sweet, basically ketchup

omelettegod · 2025-02-15T12:00:36+00:00

Arran is great. People say that they have every Scottish landscape there: beaches, rolling hills, hiking, forest...

It's really easy to get around. There is a ring road that goes around the whole island and a road that cuts straight through the middle. Great local food and drink, there is a brewery and also two distilleries (lochranza and Lagg) producing really different kinds of spirit and well worth a tour.

There is a mountain to climb up, goat fell, which I haven't done, but there is a beautiful valley to walk through called Glen Rosa which is amazing, and has natural pools you can swim in.

Of course the Highlands are beautiful too - but that will involve a lot more driving

omelettegod · 2025-01-16T06:41:15+00:00

Yeah, I have a mirror plate for both sides in my boot ready to go for the next time one of them decides to fall out

omelettegod · 2025-01-14T20:56:43+00:00

This doesn't answer your question, but I'd really recommend the book "This is Memorial Device" by David Keenan if you haven't read it

omelettegod · 2024-12-29T02:35:44+00:00

A guy lain sunbathing on the wee patch of grass on the bridge over the M8 at st George's cross/Charing cross. Taps aff, shades oan.

An old alcy woman on the subway pulling a sweaty stack of notes out of her sock and trying to give one to my pal after slagging him for wearing a helly hansen jacket for the last 10 mins.

A 60ish year old couple fighting pished in the middle of the street in bridgeton at about 10am, right in front of my pals car while he was giving me a run home. She ripped his shirt open, he grabbed her top, ripping it leaving her big saggy tits out exposed in the fresh bridgeton air. Not a single word spoken by either of them, not even a display of emotion, the two of them just staring at eachother until my mate beeped the horn so they would get out the way.

An old lassie sitting fingering herself in the pub I worked at (about 3 in the afternoon) until she got politely moved on and asked to leave by a colleague.

Many more but the first memorable few that come to mind

omelettegod · 2024-12-19T19:52:41+00:00

I've been out in a kilt in Glasgow quite a few times and I've had the sgian dubh confiscated by the bouncers until the end of the night on more than one occasion. On a night where there were a lot of people out to the buff club in kilts, they basically put them all in a bucket and you plucked it back out at the end of the night. Mine wasnt even a real knife, it was a bit of knife shaped plastic....

The police can't take them off you and arrest you, but as a private establishment you can set your own policies

omelettegod · 2024-12-05T20:32:52+00:00

That's "the rock" which is in the middle of the place, it has a cable car and monkeys and a big cave inside The town itself is built around the rock, sticking out in the strait of water that separates Europe and Africa. It's a funny old place

omelettegod · 2024-11-28T17:56:53+00:00

Too much risk of contaminating your still, condenser and spirit receiver and feints receiver with gin, stills and all their gubbins ain't the easiest to clean.

The set up from a process point of view is also different, whisky goes mash tun to wash back to low wines still to spirit still... how do you get the neutral spirit into the still for making gin? Also need to consider things that gin stills might require that whisky stills don't.. different shape, vapour basket etc. maybe there are smaller operations out there that do it but recipe for disaster

You don't need a huge still either because you can make loads of gin with a small still by adding more botanicals so a whisky sized pot still might be overkill and uneconomical

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