He reached into his bucket and pulled out a one gallon zip-lock bag with 10 or 12 HUGE Conus specimens. I showed him my two Conus specimens, and he said that he had found some as well. The root is missing, as well as the tip, but she was excited to find the first shark tooth of the trip, and her first shark tooth ever!Īfter about an hour and a half of looking, I went over to see how our friend was doing. My daughter managed to find a shark tooth as well. I believe that they are Balanophyllia desmophylum. I also stumbled across some very large corals that I had never seen before. The scale is in centimeters (as they will all be in this post). My only other specimen was just a fragment. I found two nearly complete Conus sauridens, which I have never had the fortune of finding. We found lots of great specimens, many larger than ones I had found on my previous two trips. We stayed on the south side of the train trestle, while our new friend moved to the north side. I glanced behind us and another fossil hunter was following us down (I'm sorry, but I can't remember his name!). We grabbed our gear and began heading down to the river. We arrived just after 8:00 am and headed out to the Whiskey Bridge for some Eocene fossils. After all, its a little bit of a drive to get to Midlothian from Kingwood (220 miles), and we would be passing some great sites that my dad had never visited.Īt 5:30 am, my dad met my daughter and me at our house, and we set out for College Station, Texas at 6:00 am. I had to be back on Sunday morning, so we figured we'd leave early Friday morning and squeeze two days out of the trip. I put my dad and my ten-year-old daughter on the list as well, and we figured we'd make a weekend of it. It was my very first field trip with a group, and I was extremely excited. Still, it’s probably worth Googling “what to do when your mouth feels like the Human Torch’s armpits” before you pour that first round of shots.In August, I received an invitation to join a group to hunt fossils and minerals at a cement quarry in Midlothian, Texas on September 10th. Several years before that, the Scotch Malt Whisky Society transferred four of its whiskies into former hot sauce barrels, hoping fo r “a smooth Scotch malt whisky with an extra warm afterglow.” The result was less warm than it was “OH GOD IT BURNS WHAT HAVE I DONE WHEN WILL IT END.” After two years in those “demonically fiery” casks, the resulting scotch was undrinkable even by the most masochistic members of the Society – but it found a second life as a spicy cooking spirit called Hotscotch Sauce.ĭickel promises that its newest line addition provides both a “peppery kick” and a smooth finish, and hopefully it’ll be less painful than its predecessors. “Welcomed relief came in the form of numbness that set in during the long finish.” (And now that Prairie Fire-related punishment doesn’t seem so bad). “I was at first intrigued by the combination of warmth from the high ABV and the chile pepper cask, but the intensity quickly turns into insanity as the spiciness was unrelenting and borderline painful,” Axis of Whisky wrote after trying it. In 2016, Seattle’s Westland distillery released Inferno, an American single-malt whisky that was aged in a Tabasco barrel. This isn’t the first time that a whisky company has tried to age its products in former hot sauce casks – although it may be the first time that the results have been drinkable. Photo courtesy of Photo via George Dickel/Instagram
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