Submission + - Nuclear science reveals sobering truth about faked Scotch whisky 2
Lasrick writes: Scientists with only the pursuit of truth in mind have proven—through meticulous radio-carbon dating and NO TASTING AT ALL—that half the bottles of expensive aged Scotch whisky they tested weren’t as old and valuable as purported.
Distinct from "artificial tongue" (Score:1)
This method gives the approximate age of post-1950s Scotch WITHOUT tasting it.
In August 2019, Slashdot reported on an artificial tongue to tell a new single-malt whisky from an 18 year old one. [slashdot.org]
Sidebar: Some say whisky and whiskey are two different things [whiskyforeveryone.com].
Other news outlets reporting this since Jan. 21 (Score:1)
https://cambridge.altmetric.co... [altmetric.com] has a list.