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Posted: **23:45 Wed 16 Oct 2013**

jdaw1 wrote:1.2?

Not 1.2. But it has something in common with 1.2.

Posted: **23:47 Wed 16 Oct 2013**

Posted: **23:49 Wed 16 Oct 2013**

DRT wrote:1.3?

It has the same thing in common with 1.3 that it has with 1.2, and it is not the first number.

Posted: **23:50 Wed 16 Oct 2013**

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:1.3?
It has the same thing in common with 1.3 that it has with 1.2, and it is not the first number.

So we have nailed the "."? Excellent.

1.4?

Posted: **23:53 Wed 16 Oct 2013**

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:1.3?
It has the same thing in common with 1.3 that it has with 1.2, and it is not the first number.
So we have nailed the "."? Excellent.

1.4?

Not 1.4. And it's not your turn.

Posted: **23:54 Wed 16 Oct 2013**

1.5? {rules suspended as this could take years}

Posted: **23:58 Wed 16 Oct 2013**

DRT wrote:1.5? {rules suspended as this could take years}

No further guesses tonight! I give these clues:
1. It is a Speyside Spey.
2. It is no longer available.
3. It was released this year.

Posted: **23:58 Wed 16 Oct 2013**

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:1.5? {rules suspended as this could take years}
No further guesses tonight! I give these clues:
1. It is a Speyside Spey.
2. It is no longer available.
3. It was released this year.

4. It is delicious.

Posted: **23:58 Wed 16 Oct 2013**

djewesbury wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:1.5? {rules suspended as this could take years}
No further guesses tonight! I give these clues:
1. It is a Speyside Spey.
2. It is no longer available.
3. It was released this year.
4. It is delicious.

5. I think I'll have another.

Posted: **23:59 Wed 16 Oct 2013**

It's just you, me and the Bots now Derek. And they never guess.

Posted: **00:04 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

djewesbury wrote:5. I think I'll have another.

Best suggestion of the night.

Posted: **11:05 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

Quick sub-quiz:
How many bottles / cases of GST 2011 was I allocated by the Wine Society?

Posted: **11:23 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

two or none. And more to the point how much other stuff did you buy from the offer?

Posted: **11:26 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

None.

I bought nothing else from it because I bought a lot 2011s when they were released. I suppose as the months go on I will accumulate others though, as if by magic...

Posted: **13:22 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

4.2345

djewesbury wrote:Quick sub-quiz:
How many bottles / cases of GST 2011 was I allocated by the Wine Society?

Did you get all 6? I decided I couldn't be bothered to try to buy any of the WIne Society's bottles - perhaps I should have done. But at least my not buying any means they have gone to a good home.

Posted: **13:37 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

djewesbury wrote:None.

Posted: **14:23 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

djewesbury wrote:
djewesbury wrote:None.

Quoting yourself must surely be poor etiquette? Perhaps like referring to yourself in the third person?

But the substance of my reply is that I think it is a shame you didn't get any. I had hoped those bottles would find there way to the home of someone on this forum.

And what about marking my answer to your quiz?

AHB wrote:4.2345

Posted: **16:22 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

78 (a multiple of both 1.2 and 1.3, in case the common factor was not the .)

Posted: **16:28 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

65.2803

Posted: **16:30 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

No correct answers although I like both methodologies. Yes, Alex.. It sounds like we have scant GST between us.
If quoting yourself is bad etiquette then JDAW is in trouble...

Posted: **17:07 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

65.2804

Posted: **17:12 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

23.658

Posted: **17:13 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

If quoting yourself is not bad etiquette then JDAW is still in trouble...

Posted: **17:19 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

A clue. The first number represents an individual distillery. The numbers after the '.' are the cask number - so 14.23 is a bottling from the 23rd cask purchased from distillery number 14. Numbers such as 65.2804 are therefore improbable. Think double or occasionally triple digits, post-point.

There is a website where a resourceful young man has compiled a partial list of the distillery numbers used by the SMWS. One could use this list to identify Speyside distilleries.

Posted: **17:31 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

Perhaps the quiz could be split into two parts. First we guess which distillery and then we guess the cask number. Would that be allowed within the rules?

Posted: **17:35 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

Motion passed with zero objections.

I guess 54 (Aberlour) is the distillery.

Posted: **17:45 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

Aberlour is not the distillery.

Posted: **18:02 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

To assist those not familiar with Whisky distilleries or the SMWS:

It is one of these and the SMWS numbers can be found here.

Posted: **18:51 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

Yes. It is.

Posted: **18:55 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

I think this quiz is now as easy as it could possibly be and I will not be offering any further clues for a while.

I bought this bottle on the same day that I enjoyed a Dow 63 that had been bottled in the Vaults in Edinburgh, now occupied by the Whisky Society. On that day, Andy Murray won Wimbledon.

The Whisky Society's bottlings are offered on a monthly basis.

Posted: **20:44 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

76.88

Posted: **21:32 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

24 (The Macallan)

Posted: **21:49 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

PhilW wrote:76.88

Very nice stuff. No.

DRT wrote:24 (The Macallan)

Nope.
Despite saying that I wouldn't be giving further clues, I appear to have given a good clue, above, quite inadvertently.

Posted: **22:10 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

76.93

Posted: **22:11 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

DRT wrote:76.93

Thought you might sneak past me when it's not your turn? Oh no.

Posted: **22:13 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:76.93
Thought you might sneak past me when it's not your turn? Oh no.

Can't remember the password for my alter-ego so I will have to wait.

Posted: **22:23 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

I thought he had been deleted!
Everyone must be busy doing proper things tonight.... Perhaps Owen is out carousing in Bath or Wells.

Posted: **22:50 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

Ah yes..

(Patrick Grubb selections madeira list arrived today and has held me spellbound)

I am also a little unsure about being given a reading list prior to participating, I hope I don't have to produce evidence that I have imbibed the course material.

44.66, to set the wheels in motion.

Posted: **23:02 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

Think of it less as a reading list and more as a key.

You are closer in one way; but further away, too.

Posted: **23:18 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

And the gnomic responses. In what sense are my thoughts illumined by this information?

Posted: **23:21 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

LGTrotter wrote:And the gnomic responses. In what sense are my thoughts illumined by this information?

Look within yourself, grasshopper. There find the answers.

Posted: **23:22 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

Or I could just say "yes you are closer numerically but further away geographically", which is, well, so prosaic. Which would you prefer?

Posted: **23:25 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

Oh I'm going to bed. The standard of guess is well below par tonight. I have provided an adventure of a question, a veritable jigsaw puzzle, with clues all slotting together to lead you to the answer, if you could but see.

But you have thrown away the lid of the box and forgotten what the picture was. And my jigsaw remains unfinished.

Posted: **23:49 Thu 17 Oct 2013**

Keep them gnomic.

I knew someone who threw away the box of his jigsaw and did it underside up. Now that is hardcore jigsaw.

Sleep innocently.

Posted: **07:13 Fri 18 Oct 2013**

77.12

I can't be bothered to read the linked material.

Posted: **07:14 Fri 18 Oct 2013**

Is it a jigsaw of a pile of baked beans?

Posted: **07:17 Fri 18 Oct 2013**

AHB wrote:77.12

I can't be bothered to read the linked material.

Also a good method. No.

DRT wrote:Is it a jigsaw of a pile of baked beans?

Now now. It was your Talisker that made me think of this!

Posted: **07:25 Fri 18 Oct 2013**

78.21

Posted: **07:45 Fri 18 Oct 2013**

I'm lost. Can you please provide a summary of the clues?

Posted: **12:17 Fri 18 Oct 2013**

DRT wrote:I'm lost. Can you please provide a summary of the clues?

djewesbury wrote:I think this quiz is now as easy as it could possibly be and I will not be offering any further clues for a while.

I bought this bottle on the same day that I enjoyed a Dow 63 that had been bottled in the Vaults in Edinburgh, now occupied by the Whisky Society. On that day, Andy Murray won Wimbledon.

The Whisky Society's bottlings are offered on a monthly basis.

I had already also said that it was a Speyside. In fact it is a Speyside Spey (further clue).

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