Bushmills Millennium

[IainB]

A question for anyone who's tried a few different casks - is there a wide variation?

I was just going to finish off a bottle of cask 310 but was wondering if it's opening one of the others to compare. I don't really want to open one right now but I don't want to leave the dregs at the and of the open one too long either!

[JohnM]

There was a good bit of difference between the ones I have an a sample I got from Adrian.

[IainB]

Well after that extensive and conclusive research I've decided to open a new one at the weekend. Thanks John. Would you suggest 160, 293 or 339? I've decided to put you in charge of my whiskey drinking from now on!

[DavidH]

293 is a prime number, if that helps.

[JohnM]

Well after that extensive and conclusive research I've decided to open a new one at the weekend. Thanks John. Would you suggest 160, 293 or 339? I've decided to put you in charge of my whiskey drinking from now on!

If I knew those were the numbers, I wouldn't have suggested you open another one. They're all rubbish bottles. I'll give you €10 each for them - and I'm doing you a favour. 161, 294 and 340, now they are very good bottles.

Actually, are they all from the same cask? Are they all the same strength?

[IainB]

Well after that extensive and conclusive research I've decided to open a new one at the weekend. Thanks John. Would you suggest 160, 293 or 339? I've decided to put you in charge of my whiskey drinking from now on!

If I knew those were the numbers, I wouldn't have suggested you open another one. They're all rubbish bottles. I'll give you €10 each for them - and I'm doing you a favour. 161, 294 and 340, now they are very good bottles.

Actually, are they all from the same cask? Are they all the same strength?

They're the cask numbers. I've left out the bottle numbers. They're all the same strength.

How many cask of this were produced, do you have any idea?

I think I'll proceed with the prime number. That sounds like good advice. If I ever run a distillery I'm going to code all my casks with infinite non recurring decimals. I'll need big labels. Exept for pi.

[TheWhiskeyBro]

Hi there Iain, as far as I know there were 365 casks of the Bushmills Millennium malt!!!

[IainB]

Hi there Iain, as far as I know there were 365 casks of the Bushmills Millennium malt!!!

That makes sense given the cask numbers we've seen. It certainly wasn't that rare!

[JohnM]

£5,000 for the cask, including taxes, I believe. Great value. Some in the U.S. got them for $5,000.

[IainB]

And a good cash injection for them I guess. About 1.8m? When were they sold I wonder - as in how far before 2000. If it was 1975 that wouldn't be such great value at all!

I presume it was a couple of years before 2000?

[JohnM]

They were available in the early 1990s anyway. Probably for a good few years, but I'm not sure.

[TheWhiskeyBro]

I can recall as a young lad on my first visit to Bushmill's almost 20 years ago, that the casks were for sale and had been for some time. I think they were on sale for a long time with the price increasing as they approached maturity, I seem to have a figure of £3,000 in my head for the early 1990s. I'm sure it is a question the distillery might be able to answer?

[IrishWhiskeyChaser]

There was a good bit of difference between the ones I have an a sample I got from Adrian.

That was one of the worst Irish Whiskey's I've ever tasted. Must go back to it ... but it had a perfumy taste to it which I hated. I've tasted 5 different and some can be quite similar but great and then I open this pup of a whiskey I suppose i was just unlucky Even at a decent price of 80Euro it was still a bad buy.

For anyone that's interested it's cask 127.