What type of alcohol is aged the longest?

Question

For how long can some alcohol be aged?

Answer 1

whiskey and or scotch ages a lot, the high end ones up to 50 years i bellieve. . .  but a lot of the alcohol evaporates out of the cask so you end up with about 1/3 of the cask full by the end. not such a great deal.

i imagine its the same deal with other alcoholic beverages.

and when they say aged for however many years, it means the time spent in the barrel/cask, not the bottle.

so if you ahve a 12 year old whiskey and you keep it for 10 years, it will still be 12 years old. cheers!

Answer 2

Actually, strong alcohol (whiskey, cognac) can be aged for 50 years. After 50 years it won't change any more. Usually 50 years old alcohol pour into big glass bottles and keep it there. Further aging is a pure marketing.

Answer 3

There are bottles of the famous "Chateau D' Quem" Sauternes that are over 100 years old( and these do age in the bottle) unlike Whiskey and Scotch.

The cost of some of these bottles is over $100,000 at auction.

But I don't know if your counting wines or just liquors.

Answer 4

Louis XIII Cognac...

$1500+ a bottle ... aged 100+ years.

One sip = 1 HOUR on the palette unlike the VSOP which is about 10-20 minutes on palette.

Limited edition = $43,000+

http://www.louis-xiii.com/

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll...