Comments on: Million Dollar Coconut Brandy http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/ Quenching your thirst with sips, nips and tipples. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:19:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Kara http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-79797 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:06:53 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-79797 Definitely worth 1 mil. if its the first bottle... just think about this.. you will have the first bottle of a new line of spirit. Could you imagine if you had the first grey goose bottle?.... I'm sure you can't right? Brilliant on Mendis part! Definitely worth 1 mil. if its the first bottle… just think about this.. you will have the first bottle of a new line of spirit. Could you imagine if you had the first grey goose bottle?…. I’m sure you can’t right?

Brilliant on Mendis part!

]]> by: Lawrence http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-79796 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:04:16 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-79796 Opinionated alchemist(or Dominik mj)... I think you are missing the boat here. If you did proper research, you shall find that this brandy will have a rather unique position in the "western" world. Next time you visit a bar, ask if they have a clear brandy available.. no wait, ask them if they have a clear coconut brandy available. I have done it already and the bartenders look at me cross-eyed. Now, do the same with vodka or rum or any of the basic run-of-the-mill drinks.... you have a varied selection Bottom line.... this Mendis has a very special interest to the market and is quite an amazing concept. Lets be thankful that we will be having such a jewel of a drink that in a couple of months, we will be able to order and not have the bartender look at us cross-eyed. Would not you agree? Opinionated alchemist(or Dominik mj)… I think you are missing the boat here. If you did proper research, you shall find that this brandy will have a rather unique position in the “western” world. Next time you visit a bar, ask if they have a clear brandy available.. no wait, ask them if they have a clear coconut brandy available. I have done it already and the bartenders look at me cross-eyed.

Now, do the same with vodka or rum or any of the basic run-of-the-mill drinks…. you have a varied selection

Bottom line…. this Mendis has a very special interest to the market and is quite an amazing concept.

Lets be thankful that we will be having such a jewel of a drink that in a couple of months, we will be able to order and not have the bartender look at us cross-eyed. Would not you agree?

]]> by: cash http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-69889 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:23:04 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-69889 why are you arguing like a bunch of old married farts with nothing better to do... all people want to know is if it tastes good and if it's really worth $1,000,000 nobody needs a history lesson from some random internet person...if you can't buy it shut up why are you arguing like a bunch of old married farts with nothing better to do… all people want to know is if it tastes good and if it’s really worth $1,000,000 nobody needs a history lesson from some random internet person…if you can’t buy it shut up

]]> by: dominik.mj http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-68293 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 02:36:33 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-68293 Dear Chris, you might be right that I was wrong about the wood aging. Off course several spirits are aged in other than oak barrels (and I have overseen that) and gets no color or just maximum a golden hue even after a long period. And not only French are putting there spirits into glass... But filtering is not only used to get the sediments out of spirits - after my information (and these are first hand from a quality manager of a very big distiller) active coal filtering do also remove color. How the folks at Mendis do it, I am not sure of. But there is no chance for a justification for the hefty bottle price! And is it so important how the US TTB is calling the spirit? Arrack from Sri Lanka is made out of the saps of the coconut flower... then aged in wood. They call it Arrack (which is confusing enough, because there is Indonesian Arrack which is also produced with rice and last but not least the Middle East Arak: a grape spirit flavored with anise), but if you look at it, its a coconut brandy - or did I overseen something again? InitiallyI didn't wanted to start here a big technical discussion about the topic. Main key points are: may be Mendis is the first company who market their product as coconut brandy - but practically there are aged products like that quite long on the market. And they really cannot justify the price of the first bottle (I don't think, that they will sell it - but maybe they find somebody who is stupid enough)! Dear Chris,

you might be right that I was wrong about the wood aging. Off course several spirits are aged in other than oak barrels (and I have overseen that) and gets no color or just maximum a golden hue even after a long period. And not only French are putting there spirits into glass…

But filtering is not only used to get the sediments out of spirits - after my information (and these are first hand from a quality manager of a very big distiller) active coal filtering do also remove color.

How the folks at Mendis do it, I am not sure of. But there is no chance for a justification for the hefty bottle price!

And is it so important how the US TTB is calling the spirit?

Arrack from Sri Lanka is made out of the saps of the coconut flower… then aged in wood. They call it Arrack (which is confusing enough, because there is Indonesian Arrack which is also produced with rice and last but not least the Middle East Arak: a grape spirit flavored with anise), but if you look at it, its a coconut brandy - or did I overseen something again?

InitiallyI didn’t wanted to start here a big technical discussion about the topic. Main key points are: may be Mendis is the first company who market their product as coconut brandy - but practically there are aged products like that quite long on the market. And they really cannot justify the price of the first bottle (I don’t think, that they will sell it - but maybe they find somebody who is stupid enough)!

]]> by: Dr N Jayasekera http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-54894 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:19:14 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-54894 Has anyone purchased a bottle as yet? Has anyone purchased a bottle as yet?

]]> by: Chris http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-20017 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:50:09 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-20017 Mr. Dominik mj is completely incorrect is his blatant uneducated analysis of alcohol. Firstly, all alcohol is clear coming off the still, it is the oak casks that puts color into alcohol, a Master Blender will add caramel coloring (burnt sugar) to taint the color darker where required. Mendis Coconut Brandy is a natural clear spirit that is matured in special casks (NOT charcoal or glass) to retain the natural clear (not WHITE) color of the spirit. So on his first point he is completely incorrect, filtering is used to clear all alcohol of debri. The French use glass containers to mature a clear alcohol made from fruit. Second point, Mendis Coconut Brandy according to the US TTB (for Dominik mj that is the US ATF - Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms federal division) for COLA approval, Mendis Coconut Brandy is the first product in the world to be produced and called a coconut brandy. Arrack is a completely separate category that is recognized by the US TTB. Mr. Dominik mj is completely incorrect is his blatant uneducated analysis of alcohol. Firstly, all alcohol is clear coming off the still, it is the oak casks that puts color into alcohol, a Master Blender will add caramel coloring (burnt sugar) to taint the color darker where required. Mendis Coconut Brandy is a natural clear spirit that is matured in special casks (NOT charcoal or glass) to retain the natural clear (not WHITE) color of the spirit. So on his first point he is completely incorrect, filtering is used to clear all alcohol of debri. The French use glass containers to mature a clear alcohol made from fruit.

Second point, Mendis Coconut Brandy according to the US TTB (for Dominik mj that is the US ATF - Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms federal division) for COLA approval, Mendis Coconut Brandy is the first product in the world to be produced and called a coconut brandy. Arrack is a completely separate category that is recognized by the US TTB.

]]> by: dominik mj http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-19862 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:03:29 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-19862 It is just a rip off. And you have to read between the lines: It is the first WHITE coconut brandy. No bottle of 2 years old filtred spirit can be worth 1000000$ ! The normal term of these spirits are arrack! So it is definitely (not the first) arrack - but just filtred through active coal to remove color and alcohol roughness - nothing so unique (Facundo Bacardi did it a long time ago with his rums). It is just a rip off. And you have to read between the lines: It is the first WHITE coconut brandy.
No bottle of 2 years old filtred spirit can be worth 1000000$ !
The normal term of these spirits are arrack! So it is definitely (not the first) arrack - but just filtred through active coal to remove color and alcohol roughness - nothing so unique (Facundo Bacardi did it a long time ago with his rums).

]]> by: Thomas http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-19780 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:04:31 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-19780 Great way to publicize a company and spirit that's never been heard of before. Intriguing product, too, once you read their description. I wonder what the actual retail will be? Great way to publicize a company and spirit that’s never been heard of before. Intriguing product, too, once you read their description. I wonder what the actual retail will be?

]]> by: Andrew Barrow http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-19756 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:13:21 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-19756 Thanks Mike - must have missed it Thanks Mike - must have missed it

]]> by: Mike http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-19750 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:29:42 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2007/04/02/million-dollar-coconut-brandy/#comment-19750 It's right <a href="http://www.mendisbrandy.com/win/index.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> linked off their homepage. It’s right here linked off their homepage.

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