Today we taste and review Eau Claire Distillery Single Malt Whiskey, Infinity Hopped Spirit, Bearface Triple Oak Canadian Whisky, Lip Service Rye, and Driftless Glen Rye.
Amazing! So happy to hear you enjoyed our first batch of Single Malt Whisky from Turner Valley! Thank you @canadianwhiskysmith for sharing a bottle with the Whiskey Vault crew! The second spirit is Eau Claire Distillery's Single Malt Whisky and is actually from Turner Valley, Alberta, Canada and made with all Alberta barley! Fun fact: "Eau" is pronounced like "Oh" and so "Eau Claire" means "Clear Water" in French which works perfect because we get our water from the Canadian Rockies! The Infinity Hopped Spirit is actually from Infinity Beverages Winery and Distillery located in Eau Claire, Wisconsin so not from the same distillery but similar name/location. Either way thank you for the Canadian Whisky love! We'd love to have you guys up to the distillery one day! Cheers! Eau Claire Distillery
Was amazing to get to try this product and try batch 2, 3 and 4 at the tasting event last night. Was super cool to meet the gal who brought down the whisky to them.
Eau Claire Distillery's master distiller is Caitlin Quinn (born in Winnipeg, but raised in Scotland...now living in Calgary). This is the first edition of their malt and it is only 3 years old. Eau Claire runs a farm where they grow their own barley for distilling. They have to supplement with barley sourced from other local producers, but it's still pretty cool. They farm using historic tools and a team of horses. They do tours of the farm and folks can even sign-up to come help bring in the harvest in the fall. While Alberta has been a major producer of whisky historically, this is the first Alberta Malt produced by Alberta's first craft distillery and one of the youngest master distillers in the industry.
happy to see Bearface from my neck of the woods! Some mystery surrounding the source of the distilled grain, reached out to them and they told me it was 100% corn.
You finally tried Bearface! This has been my go to Canadian whiskey since it landed on shelves at my local shop. I like to share this with friends to bring them into the whiskey world.
I’m proposing that Daniel and Rex release a Rye from crowded barrel that recreates the Lip Service label picture, but with their faces instead of that female models. I would pay money just to have that bottle with their big faces on it - regardless of the whiskey that was inside. Lol
You finally tried the Bearface and just skimmed over it. Personally love this whisky to me it's a subtle bourbon, a little on the sweet side but oohh so good, dangerous as you say hope you give it another fuller review down the road
Good ole Longview, TX - my hometown. Definitely recognized for all of the pine trees in the area. I’ve got a buddy who would be down for the Hopped Spirit. Awesome reviews, gentlemen.
I was in the Caribbean the last two weeks and found the only Whiskey made in the islands. I thought about grabbing extra for you guys but I had already went over budget and didn’t want to risk a crappy whiskey. I’m sorry I didn’t get an extra bottle. It’s called Captain Don’s whisky. Named after the guy who brought diving to Bonaire. It’s magical. Only 3 years old and it’s already so special. It reads at a 6 year old level though because of that Caribbean heat. They import rye and corn but also use sorghum grown on the island. Couldn’t get the mash bill. The kicker is they age it with Cuban tobacco in the barrels. Couldn’t get the barrel type either unfortunately. It’s one of the nicest whiskeys I’ve had. Not just nicest young whiskey. It holds its own. The tobacco note is so perfect right now it’s incredible. I’m back in Bonaire in November of 2020 and the vault is definitely getting this. You guys have to have this whisky.
Only 6% off of being a bourbon. Just the way I like it. Looking through CZcams trying to find a good review of "The Burning Chair". I was recommended it while going to pick up Woodford Double Oaked. Walked out with burning chair. I like it. Even the hippie type bottle and stopper.
Eau Claire...I live in Alberta and I just might have to track some of that down. You guys have convinced me! Recently bought Glen Breton and loved it. If you say Eau Claire is right up there with it, that's good enough for me! Great video guys!
I was there too, where IPA's became the biggest trend several years back - which is unfortunate if you don't like IPAs... HOWEVER, I kept trying them and I found Deschutes "Fresh Squeeze IPA" (and their limited edition NWPA: "Northwest Pale Ale") which has a VERY refreshing blend of citrus and hops. I don't know if I can say I like hoppy beer, but at least that one has a nice crispness that the citrus is well balanced with the bitterness. It may not be for you, but when I want a juicy chilled beer on a hot summer evening - that is probably the only one I will go to.
As someone who started out where you are now, may I suggest trying one of the New England style of IPA? They are generally unfiltered and a lot of them have lactose in them as well. So they usually are not aggressive like the older style of IPA. I used to refer to those one's as "tongue scrapers". Was not a fan at all.
I can’t send whiskies, but if any other viewer has the chance, please send them some stuff from two brewers, de vine or some more unique distilleries. Glenora is good, but they’re like the macallan or glenfiddich of Canadian single malts. There’s much better stuff hidden in local distilleries. The master distiller of De vine studied under bruichladdich’s master distiller, and you can taste that. Two brewers are using the best malts out there and creating incredibly complex blends (single malt, but from different types of cask maturations, basically what glenfiddich wanted to achieve with the XX experimental, but failed to).
I can’t do super hoppy & bitter beers, I’m not sure how others can stomach IPA’s and other hops heavy beers. I would however love to try that Lip Service Rye, the way y’all describe it sounds heavenly!
Could you guys tell me what level mooch that is? A friend of mine who mainly just drinks blended scotch took me with him to the liquor store, a couple of weeks ago, to recommend a whisky for him. I saw may favorite budget-ish whisky: Ardbeg 10 and decided to tell him to get it just so I could mooch it off of him. Turns out that JW Double Black stuff he’s used to is no match for the grandeur of Ardbeg 10!! A week later he called me screaming on the phone about how terrible the whisky is. He hated it so much that he gave me the whole bottle after taking only 2 shots. Am I a master mooch or just a lucky bastard?
Oh, where's the Daniel mistake counter? Rex mentioned Glen Scotia and Daniel said that's what Glenora was, but Glen Scotia is a Campbeltown... Glen Breton is what he meant. SHAME. As punishment, more Canadian whiskey! (I know for a fact they have at least 6 or 7 more to review... most of which I bet they'll even enjoy!)
Add another on the board! Eau Claire is in Wisconsin. Thus, this be Murican. Maybe its some sort of poetry that Daniel's new favorite Canadian malt isn't actually Canadian?
I always get myself screwed up on those and have to think it through before naming them. But I agree! More Canadian Whisky!! More Canadian Malts!!!! Shelter Point! Shelter Point! Shelter Point! Shelter Point! Shelter Point! Shelter Point!
Wait... They're not the same distillery. PUT THAT ERROR ON THE BOARD. The first one is Infinity Beverages from Eau Claire, WI. then Eau Claire Distillery in Alberta, Canada.
Actually...Infinity was the hopped spirit. Eau Claire was the Single Malt. I'm sure it's been a long week :-) The new gym just opened out at the Wizard Academy and Rex has been working out ;-)
Finally, Will Daniel finally start up a wood-burned Glencairn carrying box that can interlock with a 4 pack whiskey bottle carrying case? Seriously speaking though.. Why is it so difficult to find a nice carrying case for any of these things?
Yet another delve into the realization that taste is subjective. I don't know if the yin and yang/ good cop bad cop, is just a slapstick routine? If so damn, you guys are eh okay? Either way? Whisky/Whiskey Tribe for life!! Awesome channel...
One of the first steps in distilling, regardless of the final spirit, is to brew a "Distiller's Beer". It isn't brewed for flavour as much as for producing the maximum amount of alcohol in the shortest period of time. A Distiller's Beer isn't usually hopped. It is Water, Grain, Yeast, and sometimes enzymes (to help the yeast convert the sugars from the grains into alcohol). Once fermentation is complete, it is distilled. If it is distilled to a really high proof, you get vodka/neutral grain spirit. If it is distilled to a lower proof (160 proof is maximum barrel entry in the US, I think), you get new make spirit, which is aged (or sold as "white dog"/moonshine/etc.). The Infinity likely added hops to the distiller's beer. I can't imagine they added it after distillation.
@@canadianwhiskysmith6453 i know that. And I researched it a bit, and it seems like it's a bunch of craft beer that's been distilled. Wich is weird, because on every home distilling forum I've been on, people warn against distilling beer. Don't remember why. But I think it has something to do with the hop oils
There are definitely things to be careful of. A commercial (even craft level), would have measures in place to be sure it is done safely. The only other thing I can think of is that they are doing a third distillation run, and using the hops in a botanicals bag like gin or aquavit.
Am I going crazy or did that Bank of Scotland sign appear out of nowhere? You guys should pause the camera and randomly move things around the vault press record again and see if anyone notices that things moved around.
Daniel: when I was eleven i crafted cd holders with engraving and sold it for 20 dollars each and bought a drum set. Kids now: i built a treehouse on creative mode on minecraft, and my mom was so impressed, i got an ice cream while I finished it, but I didn’t actually finish it, i got busy watching minecraft vids on youtube.
The rye videos I am seeing so far are not spicy ones. can you point me to a good spicy one I can buy budget in TX? On a different note Daniel and Rex what is the current price of powers Irish there? $28 750ml down my way.
Guys, it's pronounced "O-Klare" from the French Eau Claire for clear water. Just another of those difficult 'Sconnie names like Oconomowoc, Chequmegon, etc... It's a common mistake. Cheers!
Yellow label is a mix of all 10 of 4R mash bills. It's hard to distinguish individual flavors and it's really low ABV. It's ok neat but better in a Kentucky mule. Keep it!
Are there people from the government going around keeping track of the age of the whiskeys in all the distilleries? How do distilleries prove that their spirits are aged and what prevents them from faking an aged whiskey?
All distilleries to highly-detailed reports of all production, processing, and storage. When things move they are reported down to the 100th of a decimal point on loss and transfer. Almost impossible to fake an age statement that way.
Lip Service Rye...Haven't had that one, but have had their Burning Chair Bourbon, which is tasty. They are the ones making Ayate Tequila...which I had at a blind tasting on April Fool's Day. I'm not usually a t'kill ya person, but Ayate was rich, herbal, and almost delicate (in some respects).
@@luiginapolitano2851 Unfortunately, as much as I enjoyed Burning Chair and even Ayate, they price point, for me, is a little steep for what they are. I would bet that in any US market, the value is worth the price.
Fair enough , but given the reputation of the distiller in the wine world , that demands a couple extra dollars in the price point , and for a couple extra bucks I’m willing to pay for the experience
Absolutely. But for me, $100 or so per bottle is more than the value I get from it. If it were $60 or so, I'd be inclined to pick it up. The flavour profile of Burning Chair, for instance, didn't blow me away, although it was still a cool profile.
One problem with the term "hoppiness" is that it really refers to two different things. It is really a language issue that the brewing community really has to correct because it makes discussing hops and beer flavor confusing. What I think Daniel doesn't like (and I'm mostly with him on this) is the extreme bitterness that kind of became a fad. The "west coast" style IPA at one point was a race to see who could pack the most bitterness into a beer. I'm not a fan. I have had the poster child for that stile (Pliny the Elder) and they managed to make it drinkable, partially by fermenting it to 11+%, but I'm still not a fan. New England style IPA on the other hand is also a "hop bomb" but the goal is for the hop flavors and not the bitterness. You might like those extremely hoppy, but not very bitter, beers.
@@bassickcris9344 Says the "Not first". It's not that no one cares, some do. Actually, it's that it just doesn't matter who's first. Just shows who's the biggest slack-off at work. I win! I'm actually not the biggest fan of the taste of whisky, but I'm obsessed with the process/art of making it, and I look forward to one day seeing my brand on this channel.
@@bassickcris9344 Let me just say: "I never thought my life could be Anything but catastrophe, But suddenly I begin to see A bit of good luck for me. Cause I've got a Golden Ticket! I've got a a Golden twinkle in my eye. I never had the chance to shine. Never a happy song to sing, But suddenly half the world is mine! What an amazing thing! Cause I've got a Golden Ticket! I've got a Golden Sun up in the sky!"
Amazing! So happy to hear you enjoyed our first batch of Single Malt Whisky from Turner Valley! Thank you @canadianwhiskysmith for sharing a bottle with the Whiskey Vault crew!
The second spirit is Eau Claire Distillery's Single Malt Whisky and is actually from Turner Valley, Alberta, Canada and made with all Alberta barley! Fun fact: "Eau" is pronounced like "Oh" and so "Eau Claire" means "Clear Water" in French which works perfect because we get our water from the Canadian Rockies! The Infinity Hopped Spirit is actually from Infinity Beverages Winery and Distillery located in Eau Claire, Wisconsin so not from the same distillery but similar name/location.
Either way thank you for the Canadian Whisky love! We'd love to have you guys up to the distillery one day!
Cheers!
Eau Claire Distillery
Love your Spirits. Keep up the great work!
Was amazing to get to try this product and try batch 2, 3 and 4 at the tasting event last night. Was super cool to meet the gal who brought down the whisky to them.
Eau Claire Distillery's master distiller is Caitlin Quinn (born in Winnipeg, but raised in Scotland...now living in Calgary).
This is the first edition of their malt and it is only 3 years old. Eau Claire runs a farm where they grow their own barley for distilling. They have to supplement with barley sourced from other local producers, but it's still pretty cool. They farm using historic tools and a team of horses. They do tours of the farm and folks can even sign-up to come help bring in the harvest in the fall.
While Alberta has been a major producer of whisky historically, this is the first Alberta Malt produced by Alberta's first craft distillery and one of the youngest master distillers in the industry.
Thank you Thersa for sharing a bottle with the Whiskey Vault crew! So cool seeing our whisky being reviewed by these guys!
Was cool to find out you brought this to them last night.
@@tymonritco8578 Always great to meet people with shared passions...especially when we're all local!
happy to see Bearface from my neck of the woods! Some mystery surrounding the source of the distilled grain, reached out to them and they told me it was 100% corn.
Thanks for the feature guys!
You finally tried Bearface! This has been my go to Canadian whiskey since it landed on shelves at my local shop. I like to share this with friends to bring them into the whiskey world.
Too bad we never got any thought on how it tastes. However we know all about Daniel’s cd holders.
@@ronaldbeerguy I know, the people want to know but trust us its unreal!
There's two of them that I saw at my local liquor store. Now I'm going to pick them up tomorrow forsure!!
Savage *
Interesting things today
Rex dropping a "reach around" into a Vault episode ... fantastic.
Thank you for the videos
I’m proposing that Daniel and Rex release a Rye from crowded barrel that recreates the Lip Service label picture, but with their faces instead of that female models. I would pay money just to have that bottle with their big faces on it - regardless of the whiskey that was inside. Lol
A friend bought me lip service. It has a Safeway sticker on the bottom.
Can you review Bearface Oaxaca edition?:)))
Definately do some shelter point....I live not too far from it.
You've done nearly a dozen Whiskies from Wisconsin now! Give us a comparison review of all of your Wisconsin Whiskies!
You finally tried the Bearface and just skimmed over it. Personally love this whisky to me it's a subtle bourbon, a little on the sweet side but oohh so good, dangerous as you say
hope you give it another fuller review down the road
And it is priced well.
Yea, I was hoping to see a proper review of Bearface.
@@DaveIngelson you'll have to give it a try for yourself, but we promise you'll love it!
thanks for the kind words and glad to hear youre enjoying it.
@@bearfacewhisky9594 I have a bottle sitting in storage in Canada. Looking forward to getting back to crack it!
Y’all should try to get the new Eau Claire Distillery - Rupert’s Whisky! I think it’s new and only $35CAD.
It’s awesome and tried it last night at an online tasting event. They use batch 004 single malt to make the flavour.
Good ole Longview, TX - my hometown. Definitely recognized for all of the pine trees in the area. I’ve got a buddy who would be down for the Hopped Spirit. Awesome reviews, gentlemen.
I got a lot of family from Longview and Diana TX
holy fuck eau claire makes whisky?! Their brandy is amazing, I drink it all the time
I was in the Caribbean the last two weeks and found the only Whiskey made in the islands. I thought about grabbing extra for you guys but I had already went over budget and didn’t want to risk a crappy whiskey. I’m sorry I didn’t get an extra bottle. It’s called Captain Don’s whisky. Named after the guy who brought diving to Bonaire. It’s magical. Only 3 years old and it’s already so special. It reads at a 6 year old level though because of that Caribbean heat. They import rye and corn but also use sorghum grown on the island. Couldn’t get the mash bill. The kicker is they age it with Cuban tobacco in the barrels. Couldn’t get the barrel type either unfortunately. It’s one of the nicest whiskeys I’ve had. Not just nicest young whiskey. It holds its own. The tobacco note is so perfect right now it’s incredible. I’m back in Bonaire in November of 2020 and the vault is definitely getting this. You guys have to have this whisky.
Bring back the bagpipes chad.
That ELO song doesnt mention Bruce lol
Only 6% off of being a bourbon. Just the way I like it.
Looking through CZcams trying to find a good review of "The Burning Chair". I was recommended it while going to pick up Woodford Double Oaked. Walked out with burning chair. I like it. Even the hippie type bottle and stopper.
I reckon, everytime you guys review a Canadian whisky. You should make a graphic of a whisky bottle with the South Park Canadian faces on it😁
I've almost bought the lip service several times just for the bottle alone.
Eau Claire...I live in Alberta and I just might have to track some of that down. You guys have convinced me! Recently bought Glen Breton and loved it. If you say Eau Claire is right up there with it, that's good enough for me! Great video guys!
Daniel, I'm with you on this. I can't stand hoppy beer. It's like drinking pine air freshener.
I was there too, where IPA's became the biggest trend several years back - which is unfortunate if you don't like IPAs... HOWEVER, I kept trying them and I found Deschutes "Fresh Squeeze IPA" (and their limited edition NWPA: "Northwest Pale Ale") which has a VERY refreshing blend of citrus and hops. I don't know if I can say I like hoppy beer, but at least that one has a nice crispness that the citrus is well balanced with the bitterness.
It may not be for you, but when I want a juicy chilled beer on a hot summer evening - that is probably the only one I will go to.
As someone who started out where you are now, may I suggest trying one of the New England style of IPA? They are generally unfiltered and a lot of them have lactose in them as well. So they usually are not aggressive like the older style of IPA. I used to refer to those one's as "tongue scrapers". Was not a fan at all.
The hop spirit might be one for someone who likes Sierra Nevada's Bigfoot and wishes it was higher ABV..... 😁
Amen brother.
I had a lot of fun in Longview, TX about 17 yrs ago.
It's nice that the intro gives us Daniel's perspective as he walks into the vault. ;-)
I remember the woodburning set smell interesting I can smell it again now
What do you pay for Bearface in the Texas area?
I’d be intrigued to try that hoppy bad boy... love hoppy beer 🤤
I can’t send whiskies, but if any other viewer has the chance, please send them some stuff from two brewers, de vine or some more unique distilleries. Glenora is good, but they’re like the macallan or glenfiddich of Canadian single malts. There’s much better stuff hidden in local distilleries. The master distiller of De vine studied under bruichladdich’s master distiller, and you can taste that. Two brewers are using the best malts out there and creating incredibly complex blends (single malt, but from different types of cask maturations, basically what glenfiddich wanted to achieve with the XX experimental, but failed to).
I can’t do super hoppy & bitter beers, I’m not sure how others can stomach IPA’s and other hops heavy beers. I would however love to try that Lip Service Rye, the way y’all describe it sounds heavenly!
I'll have to find a bottle of Lip Service. I'm a huge fan of Amador Double Barrel, and that sounds to be in a similar wheelhouse.
Did you guys try the Whistlepig 15? Super subtle and floral rye.
At 8:24 the kit Rex is describing that you use to burn into wood is known as a wood burning kit.
I have a bottle of the Eau Clair and it is fantastic!
Just picked up a bottle of the suntory hibiki harmony excited to try it
How much was it in your neck of the woods? I can get it for 70 here in Texas. Seems a bit high
It was 70 before taxes for me too but from what these guys and a few others have said it's one of the best blends especially for the price.
Could you guys tell me what level mooch that is? A friend of mine who mainly just drinks blended scotch took me with him to the liquor store, a couple of weeks ago, to recommend a whisky for him. I saw may favorite budget-ish whisky: Ardbeg 10 and decided to tell him to get it just so I could mooch it off of him. Turns out that JW Double Black stuff he’s used to is no match for the grandeur of Ardbeg 10!! A week later he called me screaming on the phone about how terrible the whisky is. He hated it so much that he gave me the whole bottle after taking only 2 shots. Am I a master mooch or just a lucky bastard?
Recently been getting into Stag Jr and Knob Creek sb and want to try something hotter but commonly available, any suggestions?
Fun fact.. As a kid.. Loved Oscar the grouch more than elmo... Loved eyore more than any of those other characters.
@Benjamin Eaves Yeah, Elmo wasn't even a thing. Snuffleupagus, that was a thing.
ahhh man! Bear Face is my fav alc!
Oh, where's the Daniel mistake counter? Rex mentioned Glen Scotia and Daniel said that's what Glenora was, but Glen Scotia is a Campbeltown... Glen Breton is what he meant. SHAME. As punishment, more Canadian whiskey! (I know for a fact they have at least 6 or 7 more to review... most of which I bet they'll even enjoy!)
Are any of them Shelter Point? Been loving that stuff and hoping someone sent them some to redeem Canada.
Add another on the board! Eau Claire is in Wisconsin. Thus, this be Murican.
Maybe its some sort of poetry that Daniel's new favorite Canadian malt isn't actually Canadian?
I always get myself screwed up on those and have to think it through before naming them.
But I agree! More Canadian Whisky!! More Canadian Malts!!!!
Shelter Point! Shelter Point! Shelter Point! Shelter Point! Shelter Point! Shelter Point!
Wait... They're not the same distillery. PUT THAT ERROR ON THE BOARD.
The first one is Infinity Beverages from Eau Claire, WI.
then Eau Claire Distillery in Alberta, Canada.
Did no one listen when he kept saying the creage isle 12 was a blend when it clearly stated single malt. So many mistakes
Last Rye reminds me of a 19 Crimes bottle.
It’s the same guy
Y'all are the Bert and Ernie of whiskey.
Snagged a bottle of Lip Service Rye at a local Goody Goody - booyah!
It is pronounced Oh Claire for the city that Infinity is from.
Actually...Infinity was the hopped spirit. Eau Claire was the Single Malt.
I'm sure it's been a long week :-) The new gym just opened out at the Wizard Academy and Rex has been working out ;-)
U Claire
Thoughts on Bison Ridge?
Finally, Will Daniel finally start up a wood-burned Glencairn carrying box that can interlock with a 4 pack whiskey bottle carrying case?
Seriously speaking though.. Why is it so difficult to find a nice carrying case for any of these things?
A local distillery makes a Habanero Bourbon, I may have to send a bottle for you to review....
Yet another delve into the realization that taste is subjective. I don't know if the yin and yang/ good cop bad cop, is just a slapstick routine? If so damn, you guys are eh okay? Either way? Whisky/Whiskey Tribe for life!! Awesome channel...
I love ipas even double ipas. But I don't want hops in my whiskey. That's just wrong for me.
i am fairly new to whiskey; can anyone explain what the whiskey stones are for?
Driftless Glen must be adding colour, I suspect
i do think the infinity hopped spirit, was not distilled from a beer, but a vodka/whisky with hops. or am i wrong?
One of the first steps in distilling, regardless of the final spirit, is to brew a "Distiller's Beer". It isn't brewed for flavour as much as for producing the maximum amount of alcohol in the shortest period of time.
A Distiller's Beer isn't usually hopped. It is Water, Grain, Yeast, and sometimes enzymes (to help the yeast convert the sugars from the grains into alcohol).
Once fermentation is complete, it is distilled.
If it is distilled to a really high proof, you get vodka/neutral grain spirit.
If it is distilled to a lower proof (160 proof is maximum barrel entry in the US, I think), you get new make spirit, which is aged (or sold as "white dog"/moonshine/etc.).
The Infinity likely added hops to the distiller's beer. I can't imagine they added it after distillation.
@@canadianwhiskysmith6453 i know that. And I researched it a bit, and it seems like it's a bunch of craft beer that's been distilled. Wich is weird, because on every home distilling forum I've been on, people warn against distilling beer. Don't remember why. But I think it has something to do with the hop oils
There are definitely things to be careful of. A commercial (even craft level), would have measures in place to be sure it is done safely.
The only other thing I can think of is that they are doing a third distillation run, and using the hops in a botanicals bag like gin or aquavit.
What's with the Bank of Scotland hanging etched glass in the window?
Lip Service is rare?
Am I going crazy or did that Bank of Scotland sign appear out of nowhere? You guys should pause the camera and randomly move things around the vault press record again and see if anyone notices that things moved around.
Pine leaves! New release name!
Daniel: when I was eleven i crafted cd holders with engraving and sold it for 20 dollars each and bought a drum set.
Kids now: i built a treehouse on creative mode on minecraft, and my mom was so impressed, i got an ice cream while I finished it, but I didn’t actually finish it, i got busy watching minecraft vids on youtube.
I'm going to be in Austin May 4th and my friends there wanted to have a tea party, is there anywhere on the property we could do it? lol
The rye videos I am seeing so far are not spicy ones. can you point me to a good spicy one I can buy budget in TX?
On a different note Daniel and Rex what is the current price of powers Irish there? $28 750ml down my way.
Guys, it's pronounced "O-Klare" from the French Eau Claire for clear water. Just another of those difficult 'Sconnie names like Oconomowoc, Chequmegon, etc... It's a common mistake. Cheers!
If Rex is Seinfeld, Daniel is... 😒 Newman....
The way I see it, Daniel is Jerry and Rex is George lol
Is there any way to “save” a plain whiskey? Just bought 4 Roses. Don’t wanna toss it. HELLLPP
Yellow label is a mix of all 10 of 4R mash bills. It's hard to distinguish individual flavors and it's really low ABV. It's ok neat but better in a Kentucky mule. Keep it!
We are waiting for the top 10 budjet scotch episode 😀😀
Are there people from the government going around keeping track of the age of the whiskeys in all the distilleries? How do distilleries prove that their spirits are aged and what prevents them from faking an aged whiskey?
All distilleries to highly-detailed reports of all production, processing, and storage. When things move they are reported down to the 100th of a decimal point on loss and transfer. Almost impossible to fake an age statement that way.
I agree, I don't like hoppy beer. I like dark beers also.
Does anyone hear the Cowardly Lion when Rex laughs?
Lip Service Rye...Haven't had that one, but have had their Burning Chair Bourbon, which is tasty.
They are the ones making Ayate Tequila...which I had at a blind tasting on April Fool's Day. I'm not usually a t'kill ya person, but Ayate was rich, herbal, and almost delicate (in some respects).
It’s worth the buy
@@luiginapolitano2851 Unfortunately, as much as I enjoyed Burning Chair and even Ayate, they price point, for me, is a little steep for what they are.
I would bet that in any US market, the value is worth the price.
Fair enough , but given the reputation of the distiller in the wine world , that demands a couple extra dollars in the price point , and for a couple extra bucks I’m willing to pay for the experience
Absolutely. But for me, $100 or so per bottle is more than the value I get from it. If it were $60 or so, I'd be inclined to pick it up.
The flavour profile of Burning Chair, for instance, didn't blow me away, although it was still a cool profile.
Oh wow , I’m in New Jersey and it’s about 32 bucks a bottle
Daniel was the original Etsy
Label reminds me of Orin Swift
Snake river stampede I don't like Canadian whiskeys but I just found out that bottle is some alright stuff
One problem with the term "hoppiness" is that it really refers to two different things. It is really a language issue that the brewing community really has to correct because it makes discussing hops and beer flavor confusing. What I think Daniel doesn't like (and I'm mostly with him on this) is the extreme bitterness that kind of became a fad. The "west coast" style IPA at one point was a race to see who could pack the most bitterness into a beer. I'm not a fan. I have had the poster child for that stile (Pliny the Elder) and they managed to make it drinkable, partially by fermenting it to 11+%, but I'm still not a fan. New England style IPA on the other hand is also a "hop bomb" but the goal is for the hop flavors and not the bitterness. You might like those extremely hoppy, but not very bitter, beers.
what was the name of the last wiskey, you never gave it just the makers name
Orin Swift lip service
1 or top 100
Nope Rex is cookie monster
I took Rex's advice and looked at Daniel's stupid face. I found nothing but the void. Or should I say...
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The void found *ME!* 👁
NEVER look directly at Daniel's face. NEVER.
This episode went sideways fast
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Daniel is so disappointed.
The fact that this episode is not named fRYEday is deeply dissapointing
Second
1st
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William Smith no one cares, enjoy whiskey
@@bassickcris9344 Says the "Not first".
It's not that no one cares, some do. Actually, it's that it just doesn't matter who's first. Just shows who's the biggest slack-off at work. I win!
I'm actually not the biggest fan of the taste of whisky, but I'm obsessed with the process/art of making it, and I look forward to one day seeing my brand on this channel.
You should be obssessed in the flavor to better your whiskey!! Id love to try a bottle 😁
@@bassickcris9344 Let me just say:
"I never thought my life could be
Anything but catastrophe,
But suddenly I begin to see
A bit of good luck for me.
Cause I've got a Golden Ticket!
I've got a a Golden twinkle in my eye.
I never had the chance to shine.
Never a happy song to sing,
But suddenly half the world is mine!
What an amazing thing!
Cause I've got a Golden Ticket!
I've got a Golden Sun up in the sky!"