Bernards Voices

Bill, I think I’ve found the answer to your question regarding Whiskey emulsification.  Check out the Single Cask section on this page. It appears that the “Reduction” process adds traces of oil to the whiskey, which makes it cloudy if/when water is added to the whiskey. However, the Scottish manufacturers filter out the oil. But as a result some of the flavor is lost.   So, if you want the real thing, you’ll have to go to Scotland and get it before it’s bottled for export.   It’s not because they add Glycogen, as you were suggesting, although apparently this has been done by unscrupulous manufacturers.   Here is a short PDF file distributed by a company called “Leco” which makes Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometers.   The PDF details how the mass spectrometer can be used to determine if whiskey has been “adulterated” by the addition of Glycogen and Propylene Glycol (see Figure 3).  Propylene Glycol?!?!? Isn’t that antifreeze? Phooey!!!!!

– Telly

The letter below was submitted to the Bernardsville News on August 12, 2009.

EDITOR:

I read with great interest the recent letter by Bill Allen, “We can turn quarry into a premier public park.” Then I reviewed his plan and map at www.BernardsVoices.org. I started to get excited about how wonderful it would be to have a lake to swim in right here in Bernards Township.

When my boys were growing up we spent many a lovely summer afternoon at Stirling Lake, which was a great place for them to learn to swim. It was also very inexpensive for residents to purchase badges, which was a huge plus for our family. Society Hill, where I now live, has a pool, but I love lakes. There is nothing like sitting in the shade of a tree, watching your kids play in the sand or in the shallow water a few yards away.

I was dreaming of swimming in a lake with sand under my feet instead of concrete, but then I started getting depressed. Twice in my life I have lived where a lovely lake existed and there was a proposal to develop it into a township park. One was in Wall Township, many years ago, and the other was Clover Hill in Millington (Long Hill Township.) In both cases, the plan failed to materialize, or was voted down, and each lake is now only accessible to the few owners of the lots surrounding it. We in Bernards Township can refuse to make the same mistakes that were made in Wall Township and Long Hill Township.

Readers, please look at the plan and map at www.BernardsVoices.org. And you will see what a great plan it is. Bill Allen seems to have thought of everything – not only aesthetics and engineering questions, but also management and fiscal issues. As Bill says, we can have this park if we want it. We need to let the Planning Board and members of the Township Committee know that we want it.

Carol Jones