could you drink $100K Worth Of Old Whiskey ? lol

[sky otter]

this is too funny not to share..at a boro assoc.  meeting last thursday the local councilmen were getting a good chucle outta this.

notice how the story has some subtle changes in it..it's the way news is reported now..might expalin some OTHER stories that folk are having trouble believing
and from the council guys ..this man was also the caretaker

o btw..scottsdale has had some famous residents and history if you are interested in that sort of thing
and old farm became old overholt rye ..i have a nice bottle of that in my collection..



John Saunders Charged With Drinking $100K Worth Of Old Whiskey

03/22/13 05:28 PM ET EDT 
GREENSBURG, Pa. — Fifty-two bottles of well-aged whiskey disappeared between his lips, police said, and now it's time for a western Pennsylvania man to settle up.

John Saunders, the former live-in caretaker of a Pittsburgh-area mansion, faces criminal charges for allegedly drinking more than $100,000 worth of the owner's whiskey.

Owner Patricia Hill found nine cases of whiskey hidden in the walls and stairwell of the century-old Georgian mansion built by coal and coke industrialist J.P. Brennan after she bought it in 2012. The Old Farm Pure Rye Whiskey was produced in the early 1900s by the nearby West Overton Distilling Co.

"My guess is that Mr. Brennan ordered 10 cases . pre-Prohibition," said Hill, a New Yorker who bought the house to convert it into a bed-and-breakfast. "I was told by his family that family members used to greet him at the door each day with a shot of whiskey."

Scottdale police told The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ( ) that Saunders drank dozens of bottles whiskey valued at $102,400 by a New York auction house. http://bit.ly/Yu1faw

Saunders, 62, of Irwin, was charged with receiving stolen property and theft. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.

Hill told police Chief Barry Pritts she stored the whiskey in the original cases, which contained 12 bottles each. After Saunders moved out, Hill said she discovered last March that the bottles in four cases were empty.

Saunders initially denied drinking the whiskey when questioned by police, but Pritts said a DNA linked him to three of the empty bottles.

A phone listing for Saunders could not immediately be located Friday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/john-saunders-charged-wit_n_2934989.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

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Man charged with drinking $102,000 worth of pre-Prohibition whiskey
Police say the man drank 48 bottles of whiskey found in home he was renting
UPDATED 7:10 PM EDT Mar 22, 2013


SCOTTDALE, Pa. —Hidden behind a basement staircase at a Westmoreland County mansion was a secret stash of liquid gold: old farm pure rye whiskey.

Distilled in 1912 and delivered to industrialist J.P. Brennan in 1917, nearly 100 bottles of West Overton Distilling Company's pure rye collected dust until their discovery recently.

Homeowner Patricia Hill surmised Brennan hid the whiskey during Prohibition. Hill purchased the South Broadway mansion from Brennan's daughter at auction in 1986. Since then, Hill has been remodeling the mansion and filling it with antiques in order to open a bed and breakfast, which she did in December 2012.

"The whiskey was buried right back here under these stairs. They were doing renovations down here for the plumbing and electrical and they had to rip out underneath the stairs. Whenever they did, they discovered 9 cases of the old farm, pure rye whiskey," said South Broadway Manor's chef and innkeeper, Rick Bruckner. "The story with this isn't just, 'Hey, we have some really old whiskey.' It's, 'Hey, we have some really old, historical whiskey.'"

Bruckner explained Brennan was acquainted with Henry Frick and Andrew Carnegie, among other important Pittsburghers during the early 1900's. He said the men would come over to the mansion and likely drink this whiskey.

Hill had rented the basement apartment to John Saunders, 62. Saunders is now charged by Scottdale police with consuming 48 bottles of the historic whiskey.

In a criminal complaint, Chief Barry Pritts wrote Saunders denied drinking the whiskey or removing labels from the bottles. Saunders reportedly told police he moved the cases to clean them several times but never opened any of the bottles.

"Saunders said that the whiskey probably evaporated and being that old, it was probably no good," Pritts wrote.

A search warrant was issued for Saunders' DNA sample. Pritts reported the sample matched the DNA profile obtained from three of the whiskey bottles.

Hill had the whiskey appraised by a whiskey appraiser in New York City, who appraised the retail value of the missing whiskey around $102,400. Pritts requested restitution in the amount of the full retail value.

Saunders is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Wednesday before Judge Chuck Moore in Scottdale.


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[Pimander]

I probably already have drunk whisky to that value. {burp}

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

Darned shame...  Wasn't even HER whiskey
I doubt she drinks the stuff, just wants the money for it (like she's broke or something).
Anyway, if it doesn't have Glen or Mc on the label, it aint whiskey

Maybe he could use that in court?
{burp}

[VillageIdiot]

That poor guy. Really got me wondering what old rye tastes like.

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

Try this thread

Posted by Slayer (of all people)
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=2713.0

[zorgon]

That poor guy. Really got me wondering what old rye tastes like.

Like oak

[sky otter]

 
maybe the guy can counter file for all the free advertising and they can call that payment..




Judge delays hearing as defendant claims he never downed vintage booze worth $102K


Read more: http://triblive.com/news/westmoreland/3734145-74/whiskey-saunders-bottles#ixzz2OqkaDPyP



By Paul Peirce

Published: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 12:01 a.m.
Updated 58 minutes ago

The former caretaker of a century-old mansion in Scottdale denies he guzzled $102,400 worth of historic whiskey that he was entrusted to safeguard.

"Yuck! That stuff had floaters in it and all kind of stuff inside the bottles. ... I don't think it would even be safe to drink," said John W. Saunders, 63, of 513 Eighth St., Irwin.

"The charges are totally false and I plan to fight it," he said Wednesday outside the office of Scottdale District Judge Chuck Moore.

Saunders asked for a delay of his preliminary hearing on charges of receiving stolen property and theft so he can apply for a public defender. Moore granted the continuance until May 15.

His former boss, Patricia Hill of New York, hired Saunders in 2011 to safeguard the former J. P. Brennan mansion at 700 S. Broadway St. in Scottdale after it was converted to a bed and breakfast and suspected he had drunk 52 bottles of the Old Farm Pure Rye Whiskey.

The whiskey was distilled in 1912 and bottled in 1917 at the West Overton Distilling Co. Workers found nine cases of the whiskey, still in its original wooden cases, wrapped in paper inside the walls and a stairwell during an $800,000 renovation of the mansion into South Broadway Manor Bed and Breakfast.

In March 2012, Hill discovered that someone had drunk four cases of the whiskey and placed the empty bottles back in the slots.

Based on an appraisal of four full bottles by Bonhams, a renowned auction house in New York City, police estimated the value of the 52 bottles at $102,400.

Bonhams' specialist for "whisky" and rare spirits said bottles of Old Farm are valuable as long as the corks remain sealed and the whiskey is untouched.

Scottdale police Chief Barry Pritts said DNA the thief left on the lips of the empty bottles matched a DNA sample taken from Saunders last year.

Saunders downplayed the forensic evidence.

"I moved those cases three times for (Pat) Hill. ... I can't believe she would accuse me of doing that. I have nothing to hide," he said. "I've been friends with Pat and her family, who were from the Irwin area, for 40 years, and I just can't believe she would accuse me of this."

When police questioned him after the empty bottles were discovered in March 2012, Saunders said the old liquor had "evaporated." He repeated that explanation Wednesday, maintaining the whiskey would not have "been any good."

Saunders disputed the value Bonhams placed on the whiskey, which was made at the distillery once owned by legendary industrialists Henry Frick and Andrew Mellon.

"I think Pat's ... looking for money. I'd say that whiskey's real value is about $10 a bottle and she hired someone to inflate the price. ... That whiskey was there for years and years, kept in a stinky, dirty basement and probably has gone through flooding and all," Saunders said.

Rick Bruckner, the innkeeper and executive chef at South Broadway Manor, said the story of the missing whiskey has generated national and international headlines since it was first reported by the Tribune-Review last week.

"I just did an interview yesterday with a newspaper reporter from London, England," Bruckner said. "The interest in this story has been just amazing."




Paul Peirce is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at  ppeirce@tribweb.com.



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[Littleenki]

Through the years, Id surmise Ive passed that line..probably more like 200,000 bucks now..and counting...but..hey..it evaporated..and I didnt inhale either.. 

Cheers(literally)!

Le

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

Can't have even a drop this week, i'm on call-out

It does sound like she's asking WAY too much, so, why don't they send an expert to test the whiskey?.

One of us could do it

Call it a 'research project'

[Littleenki]

Packin my bags..and Excedrin.....

[VillageIdiot]

I don't know. I don't see American law enforcement running DNA tests for something like this. It's expensive amd this isn't a murder case.

I bet they're trying to bluff a confession out of him.

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

Right

I bet those tests cost more than the whiskey (assuming it's drinkable, which no-one has bothered to check )

[zorgon]

Back in the 70's when I finished my scuba certification my instructor gave me a contact in Florida (as I was heading down there the day after the certificate party)  He took us down into those Florida caverns where the sharks come in to get high... and we got to dive on an old Civil War trade boat. He had found some cases of whiskey on them. We got to sample it... was awesome though I am not big on whiskey myself. Don't know how much those sold for, but I am sure it was a big buck

Oddly enough the Baltic 'Anaomalt' was found by divers looking for sunken booze and remember that movie National Treasure where they found that ship in the Antarctic?  Just saw this

100 year old whiskey from Shackleton's hut and a shipwreck gives three 200 year old champagnes
http://ktwop.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/100-year-old-whisky-from-shackletons-hut-and-a-shipwreck-gives-three-200-year-old-champagnes/

The whiskey would be fine as long as the seal is intact... and wine that has been kept chilled will be fine too but they rarely drink the stuff... just keep trading the bottles

[VillageIdiot]

Right

I bet those tests cost more than the whiskey (assuming it's drinkable, which no-one has bothered to check )