Rare bottles and mysterious whiskey bathe on the beach one

A whiskey river was not in the mind of Austin Contegiacomo when he found an ocean of his-a stop of the prohibition, to wash exactly on a New Jersey beach while strolling his dog last month.

Even for a boy who does not drink, it was a rare discovery. And it has made an even better story to tell.

“The story behind it is part of the mystery and really adds to the seduction,” Fox Digital Contegiacomo, 28, told Fox Digital, a Coast Guard Salvation swimmer from Northfield, New Jersey, Fox News.

He had just taken a 24-hour task and had decided to take his unclear sheep, Koda, for a walk near Margate Pier, south of Atlantic City.

“I take it to the beach to play almost every day,” Contegiacomo said.

“I was throwing the ball – and my dog ​​tends to rub himself on stuff that smells strange. So he has this bottle of coffee in the sand and he begins to rub on it.”

Contegiacomo said his dog forgot to play and focused heavily on everything in the sand.

“I thought,” Oh man, it looks like a bottle of pee, “he said.

“So I was shouting at him to go down, then maybe five meters ahead was another. And as soon as he left him, he ran to the other and started rubbing it.”

After Koda discovered a third bottle, Callaciomo said he began to realize that they would be stuck in something much more interesting than he would first think.

“They were pretty on the surface,” he said. “And there was a ton of concess and shells and all other types of waste on the beach that day.”

He added, “I think it was from diving because they have repaired the beaches and they do it in the winter to prepare for the summer. There was no obstacle, but it was a crazy amount of washed things.”

In total, Calracomo and his dog found 11 completely full glass bottles with rare, old whiskey, all named Lincoln Inn placed on them.

Contegiacomo called a friend who made a quick search online. They learn that Lincoln Inn was manufactured at a distiller in Montreal in the 1930s and that the company came out of business in the 1970s.

“He said, ‘The boy, there is not much information about it, but it seems to be old,” “Contegiacomo said.” He said I definitely have to keep it and learn more about it. ”

So Contegiacomo removed his jacket. He caught all the bottles – each positioned not far from others – and put them in his jacket.

Then he tied it like a sack.

Community ‘Diging Bottle’

After he took them home, Contegiomo posed for his finding in Reddit, where a “Bottle Excavation” community, as well as a group of whiskey afices, start weighing in the disco.

Group members led the competition to a diamond form that was embedded at the bottom of the bottles. It was a sign that was initiated in 1928.

“The bottles have a balloon shape,” said Contegiacomo, “and give the type of screws and stuff, most people said it was between 1930 and 1940.”

Some of the Contegiacomo’s work friends returned to the beach the next day and found one more bottle.

Contegiacomo decided to donate a bottle to each of his friends and his father.

“Many of the boys thought it was very good,” he said.

“There are about 10 of us. Many of the boys are from New Jersey and most people have families here, so it’s part of New Jersey history – so I ended up giving a lot of bottles to the boys I work with. “

Some of the whiskey bottles were clear and others were misty, which Contegiacomo learned that it could have to do with filtering.

“Given her age, some people said that could be the second in the way it was filtered or fuel because they once burned [whiskey] The barrel, ”he said.

“The one I kept for myelf is probably the best quality.”

Contegiacomo said the fact that the bottles were all still and the whiskey in relatively level the same level in each bottle gives him hope that the drinks inside are still good.

“Ocean temperatures usually do not reach somewhere about 70 degrees, even at the bottom of the waters in New Jersey,” Contegiacomo said.

Exactly how the whiskey bottles ended in the water remains a mystery.

“Apparently [bootleggers] It is used to bring it to the coast of Jersey – and then the small boats would be removed from the Jersey coast and they would get drinks. I think Boardwalk was pretty hot for Romania and stuff while stopping. “

That is why Callaciomo said he is not interested in drinking it or collecting it in finding it.

“If any of us aims to try it, I don’t think it would be me to open it,” Contegiacomo said.

“Opening it and then seeing it empty or even half empty of damages from it. Even if it’s a great whiskey or something, I don’t think I would appreciate the whiskey myself almost as much as I appreciate the story and how it came here. “