Minneapolis remodelers turn up old hoard of hooch

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When the contractor on her stately 110-year-old Minneapolis home called two weeks ago, Mary Shanesy steeled herself for the worst. "The most amazing thing I've seen in 10 years in construction happened at your house today," said Noah Day of Blue Construction Inc.

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Hidden inside a knee wall on the third floor, an air-conditioning worker had struck gold. Amid the duct work, he found four cases, 15 jugs and 30 bottles of liquor, including gin, cognac, Scotch whiskey, Jamaican rum, French brandy, vermouth, even medicinal stomach bitters, some wrapped in straw, behind a small bead-board door.

A recent stash? Hardly.

Several bottles carried a sticker indicating the buyer paid the liquor tax of 1919 -- one year before Prohibition. While some labels are no longer identifiable, others are positively pristine, including those from Martini e Rossi, James Buchanan, John Walker & Sons and John Dewar & Sons.

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[Boodles]

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Eldorado.

 

[deadpandiva]

I will have to make my way to the Hennepin history Muesum to see that exibit. it's nice that they didn't just trhow the bottles away.

 

[Tailor Tom]

Another reason to love Minneapolis....people with the good sense to plan ahead for the "dry period" of Prohibition.

Just wish I could taste some of that hidden hooch. That bottle of John Walker must be just pristine.

 

[Geesie]

Unlike ancient bottles of wine that have been found, this stuff is probably pretty good.