sputnikmonolith t1_iudvngr wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:16 PM Reply to ELI5: When a bottle of whisky says 25 years, did they really make millions of gallons of that whisky 25 years ago? by wagmoo You've got to remember that many distilleries are very old, some even hundreds of years old. So keeping batches for 12, 25 years etc is nothing in the long run. They know it will sell. Permalink 1
sputnikmonolith t1_iudvngr wrote
Reply to ELI5: When a bottle of whisky says 25 years, did they really make millions of gallons of that whisky 25 years ago? by wagmoo
You've got to remember that many distilleries are very old, some even hundreds of years old. So keeping batches for 12, 25 years etc is nothing in the long run. They know it will sell.