I recently had the distinct pleasure to assist a friend of mine in finishing off a bottle of George T Stagg. The whiskey was delicious as usual (I believe it was bottled in the Fall of 2004) but what surprised us was the remnants that we found in the bottom of our tasting glasses.
There was a fine black precipitate that we could only guess was a bit of the char from the barrel. We then took an un-opened bottle of Stagg, peered through the whiskey, and sure enough, there seemed to be some extra "goodness" lurking on the bottom.
Now I've heard that George T Stagg is un-filtered but I assumed that there was some small form of "screening" that was done before bottling.
Has anyone else run into this substance at the bottom of your Stagg bottles and do you think it should be consumed with great relish (which I must admit that we did) or should it be avoided like the plague?