Great post, Zach!
I can add some to this, as Richard Patterson will be heading up the reengineering efforts, appropriately. It is quite the exciting subject.
http://whiskythaw.canterburymuseum.com/This is an innovative subject, as there were talks of using modern science to reproduce this product. Will they apply DNA analysis or electron micro surface analysis? Will the man simply sniff it out?
He is definately one of those people that I would never bet against, that's for sure.