How to determine fake scotch

[Guest AdamInChina]

Hi, this is Adam. I am Canadian. I live in China.

 

I just bought Johnnie Walker Red. It smells a little like menthanol. It could be my imagination.

 

How can I test it?

 

By the way, I am not a chemist. Can you suggest something easy I can do at home?

 

Thanks,

 

Adam

[Royston]

Johnnie Walker Red label is really meant for mixing, probably why it tastes of methanol to you, anyway I found this in wiki...

 

Johnnie Walker Red Label - a premium blend of grain whisky and malt whisky, it is the best selling whisky made by Johnnie Walker and the only one marketed with mixing in mind. Prior to 1909 it was branded as Extra Special Old Highland Whisky.

[Severian]

Johnnie Walker tastes like methanol normally, so no need to worry. Try a single malt and you will notice the difference (I recommend MacAllen, Rosebank or Glenmorangie).

[Phi for All]

I just bought Johnnie Walker Red. It smells a little like menthanol. It could be my imagination.

 

How can I test it?

First' date=' get a clean plastic one gallon milk jug and remove the lid. Pour the JWRed into the jug and take it out to your back yard. Find an open patch of dirt [i']away from any vegetation[/i]. Turn the jug upside down and let the contents soak into the bare ground. If the bare ground turns to mud and still smells of methanol, it was genuine JWRed. If it ate through the plastic jug before you could pour it on the ground, it was fake.

 

Now go out and buy one of the single malts that Severian recommended.

[YT2095]

drink some and then read this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9550102&dopt=Abstract

if it`s difficult to see, it probably had Meths in it

[DV8 2XL]

So what's wrong with a good Canadian rye, you traitor?