Whiskey river It was not in mind Austin Contegiacomo when he found the ocean ocean-branched ban, more precisely, he was on a beach in New Jersey while walking the dog last month.
Even for a guy who doesn’t drink, it was a rare find. And she made an even better story.
“The history behind it is part of the mystery and really adds attraction,” Contegiacomo, 28, and Coast The Northfield helicopter’s rescue swimmer, New Jersey, told Fox News Digital.
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He just got down from a duty of 24 hours and decided to take his unclear Sheepdoodle, a code, a walk near the Margate dock, south of Atlantic City.
“I take it to the beach to play almost every day,” Contegiacomo said.
“I tossed the ball – And my dog It is harder to rub in things that smell strange. So, in the sand is that brown bottle and he starts rubbing on him. ”
The New Jersey resident has found nearly a dozen bottles of whiskey from the Prohibition period, which seems to have been perfectly preserved since the 1930s or 40s. (Austin Contegiacomo)
Contegiacomo said his dog forgot to play and became very focused on what was in the sand.
“I thought,” O man, it looks like a bottle of Piskinja, “he said.
“So, I yelled at him to get off him, and then maybe five feet ahead was another one. And as soon as he got off that, he ran to the next and started rubbing about it.”
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After discovering the third bottle, Contegiacomo said he began to realize that they had encountered something much more interesting than he originally thought.
“They were pretty on the surface,” he said. “And there were tons of shells and shells and all kinds of other debris on the beach.”
The Austin Contegiacomo Dog code shows the muzzle around, heading to the sand, on the beach near Atlantic City, New Jersey – where the man and the dog found 11 mysterious bottles of whiskey in the sand. (Austin Contegiacomo)
He added, “I think it was from yoke because they repaired the beaches and they did it in the winter to prepare for the summer. There were no storms, but it was a crazy amount of things washed.”
Total Contegiacomo and his dog found 11 completely full, glass bottles Rare, old whiskey, All with the name Lincoln Inn carved on them.
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Contegiacomo called a friend who quickly searched the Internet. They learned that Lincoln Inn was manufactured in the Montreal distillery in the 1930s and that the company left the job in the 1970s.
“He said,” Man, there really isn’t much information about it, but it looks old, “Contegiacomo said.” He said I should definitely keep him and find out more about it. ”
Contegiacomo and a friend have done several surveys of a bottle of whiskey that appeared on the New Jersey beach. They learned that the distillery was in Montreal and dates from the 1930s. (Austin Contegiacomo)
So Contegiacomo took off his jacket. He picked up all the bottles – each placed not far from the others – and put them in the jacket.
Then he tied him like a bag.
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After returning them home, Contegiacomo published his finding on Reddit, where the “digging community” as well as a group Whiskey lovers he began to weigh to the discovery.
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Group members directed Contegiacomo to the form of a diamond that is imprinted at the bottom of the bottle. It was a sign launched in 1928.
“The bottles have the shape of a zucchini,” Contegiacomo said, “the statement of the type of screws and things, most said it was between the 1930s and forties.”
The diamond symbol imprinted at the bottom of the bottle dates from 1928, according to some fans of whiskey whiskey. (Austin Contegiacomo)
Some of the Contegiacomo workers returned to the beach the next day and found another bottle – which was discovered by the treasure of another dozen more.
Contegiacomo decided to give a bottle Each of his friends And his father.
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“Many guys thought it was super cool,” he said.
“There are 10 of us. There are a lot of New Jersey guys, and most people have a family here, so it’s part of the history of New Jersey – so I finished almost all the bottles with the guys I work with.”
Several bottles of whiskey were clear and others were blurry, which Contegiacomo learned that he could have anything to do with filtration.
The shape of the bottle and the style of the screws are among the indicators of the year in which the whiskey is produced. (Austin Contegiacomo)
“Given the age of it, some said it could be because of the way it was filtered or covered [whiskey] barrels, “he said.
“What I kept to myself is probably the highest quality.”
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Contegiacomo said the fact that the bottles are still sealed, and the whiskey at a relatively same level in every bottle gives him the hope that the alcohol is still good on the inside.
“Ocean temperatures usually do not arrive nowhere near 70 degrees, even at the bottom of the water in New Jersey,” Contegiacomo said.
On the left, Contegiacomo is shown on the beach in New Jersey with his dog code and his wife Brooke; On the right, one of the bottles he found, she cleaned and shone now – but still unopened. (Austin Contegiacomo)
Exactly how the whip bottles ended up in the water The mystery remains.
“Allegedly [bootleggers] He used to knock him down to the shore of Jersey – and then the small ships would take off from the shore of Jersey and they would pick up alcohol. I guess Boardwalk was a pretty hot place to run rum and things during the ban. ”
That’s why Contegiacomo said he was not interested in drinking or making his finding.
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“If one of us intends to try it, I don’t think I would open it,” Contegiacomo said.
“Opening, then see him an empty or even semi -empty type of rejection from him. Even if it’s a great whiskey or something, I don’t think I would appreciate the whiskey almost how much I appreciate the story and how he came here.”
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Sydney Borkers of Fox News Digital contributed to reporting.
