The Canadian-branded booze was discovered in February, prompting speculation about how it wound up at the Jersey Shore.

Lincoln Inn whiskey was distilled in Canada and may have been one of the companies that later became Seagrams, although it’s not entirely clear. But how the whisky bottles ended up in the sand is a mystery. Contegiacomo suggested they may have been sucked up by dredging machines off the coast and deposited on the beach.

On February 17, when Austin Contegiacomo walked along the beach just south of Atlantic City, NJ, whiskey was the last thing on his mind. By his own admission, he doesn’t drink that much. “Once in a blue moon,