Whiskey Can’t Hide Its Age
The stakes are too high for this problem to be unsolved.  People can accelerate the aging of wine as a chemical process.  With billions on the line, people will figure it out for Whiskey too.<p>This will dramatically bring down the cost of whiskey too. First comes from simply increasing the supply.  More importantly, most of the cost of whiskey is time.  If I spend $5 today making a bottle of 18 year whiskey, and I have a cost of capital of 6% higher than inflation, then I&#x27;ll need to sell it at $14.27 (5*1.06^18) inflation adjusted just to break even.