If that wasn't scripted, bless you, Daniel. I'd almost swear that should have been an inversed situation. On the other hand, a pre-wood tongue lashing is generally, much appreciated.
Rex: "Sometimes five minutes worth of wood is all it takes." Daniel: "Your marriage must be awesome." You guys remind me of my friends. Kindred spirits. Thanks for the wholesome content boys!
Just a small request. Daniel (or Fancy Dan, whichever of you sits at a computer on TH-cam all day like I do), could you make a playlist, or series of playlists, of all the Whiskey Vault episodes in order?
There's a way you can do this on your own. Go to the channel, select video tab, sort by oldest to newest, select the video you want to start from, and then when you open that video, add "&list=UL12345678910" to the end of the URL. This will create a play list of all the videos in that channel in the order you selected. You used to just be able to add "&list=UL" to the end of the URL but youtube now requires you to have 11 characters after that, which don't matter. So 12345678910 can be replaced by any 11 characters. Anyways, enjoy the playlist binging!!
Bless yall for continuing to give us plenty of videos to watch during this awful Covid quarantine time. Yall are the best and I absolutely love yall!! 😄💛
I bought this a couple of months ago. Threw in some red wine barrel chips and heavily charred oak spirals. It is now 911hrs old and smells fantastic. I'm thinking of trying it at 1000hrs (3.6 million seconds old).
Thank you reviewing this one! My wife (who helps me review whiskey on my channel, Shelf Turds) would not let me buy this. It's the only whiskey she has ever physically stopped me from buying. At any given moment I've got 25 - 30 bottles of whiskey at my home bar, and this is one - Pabst - where she drew the line. But now that I know it has a nose of grapefruit, I might be able to convince her to let me grab this one. I mean, what a conversation piece to have at a bar!
How is something sweet if it doesn't have sugar? And is bourbon sweetness due not specifically to the corn itself but because corn is more neutral in flavour than rye so the charred barrel vanilla/caramel sugar notes shine through more prominently?
I love how the photos of Rex and Daniel are basically just stock photos, and many of them are the exact same picture re-used a bunch of times. lol. That means, somewhere, there is a folder on a computer with all of those photos, just pictures of Rex and Daniel making faces, and someone peruses through them to find the ones which most accurately represent a whiskey. lol. I love it.
Have you guys tried George Washington's Rye? It's gets about the same amount of barrel time and I would love to hear your thoughts on it if you get the chance.
If you look on the label, it actually says "aged 5 seconds" not 5 minutes. As in, they basically poured it through an oak tube. I saw this in the store a few weeks ago and after my initial "it's this a joke?" reaction, I was actually both curious and intrigued. I almost bought a bottle in the spot but ended up going with a bottle of Jacob's Ghost instead. Now I'm wishing I'd stuck with the Pabst.
Lagg Distillery on Arran is releasing their peated new make at the distillery. Got to try some last year and it was pretty cool. Makes the Machrie Mor taste virtually unpeated!
I second this!! I've been seeing it more and more and idk what to think of it lol. Always down to try a new whiskey though, so I'm definitely curious and more than interested in finding out what you guys think about it!
I've seen old ads (At St. Augustine Distillery, for instance.) For mail-in whiskeys. In particular, "Crystal Clear" and "Water Clear" whiskeys were available by mail! I think the ad read something like $2 for a gallon. I'd love to know the culture around drinking such spirits back in the day, whether people drank it straight and just muscled through, or if they made cocktails with it.
If you like new makes, try getting the Japanese stuff. Nagahama Distillery has 4 levels of peated new make (normal, lightly peated, peated and heavily peated), but it's $50 a 500ml bottle. I haven't tried any of it yet because I'm cheap.
Maybe for marketing you could sell a pair of bottles together in the Technically series - "Technically Bourbon" and "Technically Not Bourbon." Blend a 2 barrel batch of new make. Fill the new charred barrel with half the batch and age for an hour. Drain and bottle "Technically Bourbon." Now put the rest of the batch into the used barrel and wait an appropriate amount of aging Texas time before bottling. Sell them only together as a 2 pack of 375ml bottles. For bonus you can mess with the remaining 49% of the mashbill and do different limited runs with just peated malt or just rye or some combination but the corn is always only 51%.
I will say, I've watched this channel of and on for a while. I searched this whiskey to see if it was reviewed. Because I bought it, sipped it and hated it. I came here to try and gain some appreciation. And while I still hate this whiskey. Your ability to distinguish the tastes, particularly the stark unsweetened cinnamon which I picked out the second you mentioned it. But it was enough for me to know how little i knew about raw taste and appreciate even more your ability to name flavor and how little I know except for what I like without knowing why. Here's to finding out why.
I'm interested to find out this, what differences in flavour happen between finishing something in a sherry cask or just blending bourbon and sherry cask together to create a flavour profile I hope this makes sense but I'm curious cause I'm convinced there is a difference Could be wrong but
Whisky Vault, you should try Kinnickinnic. Its from Great Lake distillery. Its also made in Milwaukee. Its really good stuff. Its like if Jameson and Knob creek had a love child.
As someone that lives in Holland (MI) where New Holland Brewing is from, I had no idea about this until now. Buy some Dragon's Milk from them, you wont regret it.
I kept on checking my phone's calendar to see if PBR is doing a April Fool's product release during this review. I am curious about if they actually did age there product for 3 years and then 5 years if it may be a "good whisky"
I have always wanted to try heavily peated new make! There is a Japanese distillery that made some so that they can start getting products on shelves but of course they never distributed them to the USA but want to try so bad. I would buy that from you guys if you did it.
Hey I literally saw a bottle of this on the shelf like 2 days ago at the store and was surprised that it was a thing, and then y'all make a video of it. maybe that's a sign I should try it? especially considering I'm from Michigan and live in Wisconsin now lol
I work security at target. You know the store that Rex’s wife bought him that god awful goodfellow shirt from? This whole covid thing has made my job pretty chaotic these past few weeks but the silver lining to my day is that after work I get to go home and enjoy a whiskey while I watch your show. I appreciate you guys and I was wondering if you had any advice on which Islay scotch I should go with to introduce myself to islay whiskey? I’m leaning towards Laphroaig 10 or Ardbeg 10 and was wondering which you would recommend?
Do the same things that will poorly effect (affect, whatever) our normal whiskeys/bourbons also hurt new-make? I know air is a no-brainer, but what about light, etc?
Daniel, question: anthropology major who’d love to do some research after this pandemic is over. Would you & Rex want to check Mount Vernon & George Washington’s Rye Whiskey (and Apple brandy/applejack)?
ok, so haven't hit play yet as I am curious to see how close the guys come to my thoughts on this one. One of the worst tasting bottles I have bought in a long time. If you have ever been near a large brewery and smelled that sour sick smell? That is what this stuff tastes like. Salty, sour malt, with a dose of ethanol. Currently I am trying to save it by infusing with some spices etc... we are two weeks or so into it and will test later to see if it gets poured out. cheers
If I remember correctly, bourbon has to be made in new oak. Doesn't this make it expensive to make a "technically bourbon" because the barrel can no longer be reused to make bourbon?
The market for used barrels is probably vast enough that you would have an immediate way to sell your "used" bourbon barrels. But I agree with you that the turnover would serious if this was a large scale production.
Yeah, I had the same question since a good new barrel is a significant cost. But what if you used one new barrel per still run? You put the barrel on end with the new make trickling in the top and draining from the bung. It is still kind of stupid but I think it satisfies the rule.
@@contentioushackery I think you nailed it. From the Esquire article: "There's a barrel set up, and the flow rate's set for the speed at which [the whiskey] flows through; it has five contact seconds with the barrel, and it comes out the other side and we bottle it."
Well, there's plenty of whisk(e)y categories that you can age in used bourbon barrels. Either use the "technically bourbon" barrels to make some other whiskey with or sell it to someone who really wants to make something with the flavors a new barrel brings but can't technically use new barrels, like scotch whiskey distilleries which legally have to use used barrels.
Just had my first sip. Nasty stuff, will be my first and last sip. Gonna use it to prank my friends and tell them "it's awesome dude, you gotta try it"
You guys were way too nice. I tried this stuff back in October and... it's absolutely atrocious. Here's what I wrote about it on Reddit back then: "So we're up visiting family in Wisconsin, and my soon to be brother in law and good friend saw this in a grocery store. He had to pick it up for the novelty and figured oh how bad could it be? Both he and I like whiskey, typically Bourbon and Scotch. We're in our 40s and experienced drinkers, so not still idiots in our 20s. Idiots, but older. Anyway we get back to our family and get the bottle out. We grab a couple coffee cups because... Shit man this is PBR whiskey. We both say how bad can it be again? We both take a whiff of the bottle. We both recoil. I'm not sure how to describe the nose in words to convey it. I got a sweet nose of what I can only describe as sour feedlot corn mixed with tequila and finish of pure grade a Walmart brand rubbing alcohol. Another family member got "oh my God is that shitty tequila?". "UGH WHAT IS THIS RACE FUEL?" and finally "it's like moldy Barton's vodka". So we both clink our coffee cups and take a sip best. How much worse could it be? Folks.. I love whiskey. I love it neat, I love it mixed. Hell I've drank Canadian club neat, and it wasn't great but it was whiskey. It was enjoyable enough. At night I like nothing more than a pour of WT101, Eagle Rare or Old Grand-Dad neat in a tumbler before bed. I haven't had a whiskey neat that's been really horrible. I mean the Crown Apple my neighbor had was bad, real bad, but drinkable. This shit, this shit is on a new plane of existence. I have no idea how to adequately explain the tasting experience but I'll try. It hit my tongue sweet and as I started to swish and taste I got overhelmed with the most disgusting mix of liquor flavor I've ever had the displeasure of tasting. It was like someone mixed a tablespoon of sugar into a can of cream corn then left it out to for for a week. That's all I got before I recoiled in disgust and swallowed it. We both stood there coughing and gagging like 19 year olds who just had a warm old Milwaukee. So there we are with a roomful of family enjoying our pain and still a bit of this shit left in our cups. What do we think? Let's add some diet Coke, maybe that will help. Maybe it won't be so bad. No it was that bad. It was still that bad. The diet Coke muted the rubbing alcohol taste enough that we could fully taste that musty, gross corn and now barley taste in our cups. Mixed with diet fucking coke. Not even real Coke, no you never go half dumbass you go full dumbass. You know the sunk cost fallacy? Well there we were, two old guys not ready to pour it down the drain so we sipped our terrible life choices while our family roared in laughter. We got to the final quarter of the cup and both of us had a simultaneously bad idea. Let's just slug it and be done with it. Well this shit sipped is bad, but slugged is... Really bad. We both regretted our life choices and vowed to never again try that hooch. I don't know who at PBR thought this was a good idea, or who ever will buy it and finish a bottle at $20-ish a bottle. Hell even at $13 this is terrible. Even free. Tonight I couldn't even drink a beer because I could smell musty barley. I drank stupid wine, and I don't like wine just so I could taste something not horrible. Should you buy it? No. Never. Not even as a gag gift. Score: 0/10"
So somewhat unrelated but I’ve gotten into bourbon now I like the sweetness and flavors I get with four roses single barrel and I tried gentleman’s jack by jack Daniels and did not like the spicy flavor of it. Where do I go from here trying to really find my niche of bourbon.
Can someone help me? I’d like to try whiskey but i don’t know where to start because i’ve never had it before. I like sweet liquor and all kinds of beer. What are great, smooth and sweet whiskey’s (or maybe even rums) to begin with?
bourbon is going to have more of a sweet taste to it. I recently finished a bottle of Legent that was a little sweeter than I prefer, but it might be someplace to start if you can still find it. I believe it was in the $30 range so it won't break the bank if you don't end up liking it.
-"Sometimes 5 minutes worth of wood is all it takes"
-"Your marriage must be awesome"
stuff008 Man I laughed for 20mins and had to rewatch it. Lol!
Damn that one cracked me up for real🤣 but also as a new dad i totally agree 😅
If that wasn't scripted, bless you, Daniel. I'd almost swear that should have been an inversed situation.
On the other hand, a pre-wood tongue lashing is generally, much appreciated.
Oof. Feel the burn!
Naw man it's the corn dust I promise.
Rex: "Sometimes five minutes worth of wood is all it takes."
Daniel: "Your marriage must be awesome."
You guys remind me of my friends. Kindred spirits. Thanks for the wholesome content boys!
🤣😂🤣😂
Me, audibly, while pooping: “What?? PBR makes whiskey??”
Kevin M. Haube me, audibly, while pooping: “What?? Somebody just had the exact experience I just did??
Now I feel like pooping
"I'm getting a slightly musty tangy bit of minestrone soup and moth ball zest."
The best combination I could possibly imagine.
Daniel: "Im Daniel"
Rex: "I'm comfortable"
Me too Rex, me too.
Just a small request. Daniel (or Fancy Dan, whichever of you sits at a computer on TH-cam all day like I do), could you make a playlist, or series of playlists, of all the Whiskey Vault episodes in order?
th-cam.com/play/PLVDEFzjBfSSXykt84QgiVKe-eYqlQZUbH.html
There is a guy on YT who has done this for the first 500 episodes or so. Just search for "All whisky vault" and you should be able to find it
There's a way you can do this on your own. Go to the channel, select video tab, sort by oldest to newest, select the video you want to start from, and then when you open that video, add "&list=UL12345678910" to the end of the URL. This will create a play list of all the videos in that channel in the order you selected.
You used to just be able to add "&list=UL" to the end of the URL but youtube now requires you to have 11 characters after that, which don't matter. So 12345678910 can be replaced by any 11 characters.
Anyways, enjoy the playlist binging!!
It's aged for 5 seconds not 5 minutes the corner of the label says aged 5 seconds
Yep, 5 seconds. I wonder if they saw that and thought it had to be an error or something. Maybe just misremembered.
The "5 minutes of wood" joke had me laughing and instantly smashing the like button 🤣
Bless yall for continuing to give us plenty of videos to watch during this awful Covid quarantine time. Yall are the best and I absolutely love yall!! 😄💛
I bought this a couple of months ago. Threw in some red wine barrel chips and heavily charred oak spirals. It is now 911hrs old and smells fantastic. I'm thinking of trying it at 1000hrs (3.6 million seconds old).
Where is Daniel’s medallion that is normally around his neck?
Your studio / whiskey room has gotten absolutely massive with bottles. Very cool!
Loving Fancy Dan's subtle editing ball busting.
There are times when the tribe collectively weeps for Rex's wife, this video IS one of them
I smell a hint of teabag, smelly gym socks and a note of musky cundt.
Thank you reviewing this one! My wife (who helps me review whiskey on my channel, Shelf Turds) would not let me buy this. It's the only whiskey she has ever physically stopped me from buying. At any given moment I've got 25 - 30 bottles of whiskey at my home bar, and this is one - Pabst - where she drew the line. But now that I know it has a nose of grapefruit, I might be able to convince her to let me grab this one. I mean, what a conversation piece to have at a bar!
I'm all in for New Make Peated Malt sign me up
How is something sweet if it doesn't have sugar? And is bourbon sweetness due not specifically to the corn itself but because corn is more neutral in flavour than rye so the charred barrel vanilla/caramel sugar notes shine through more prominently?
We tried this months ago. We live out near Pabst Farms, so it was natural. And...you guys are very gracious.
Here is a bottling idea name. "heads and tales, bite of the wet dog." In the fine print "nothing goes to waste"
aka "Guzzaline"
I love how the photos of Rex and Daniel are basically just stock photos, and many of them are the exact same picture re-used a bunch of times. lol. That means, somewhere, there is a folder on a computer with all of those photos, just pictures of Rex and Daniel making faces, and someone peruses through them to find the ones which most accurately represent a whiskey. lol. I love it.
If there is a heaven, it looks like that room. Dear GOD, it's just so.... beautiful.
Hey, you can get a lot done in 5 minutes.
You guys should do a “bad whiskey” or “well whiskey” day. Grab things like sunnybrook and do a whole episode with a few of the bad ones.
The Rotgut Review already does that on Worst Whiskey Watch Wednesdays
Have you guys tried George Washington's Rye? It's gets about the same amount of barrel time and I would love to hear your thoughts on it if you get the chance.
So, did they just stir the blending vat with a big wooden spoon to get whisky on the label?
They're called Whoppers Daniel, the often forgotten hero of the candy world
If you look on the label, it actually says "aged 5 seconds" not 5 minutes. As in, they basically poured it through an oak tube. I saw this in the store a few weeks ago and after my initial "it's this a joke?" reaction, I was actually both curious and intrigued. I almost bought a bottle in the spot but ended up going with a bottle of Jacob's Ghost instead. Now I'm wishing I'd stuck with the Pabst.
The PBR is good!
As a rule I never lower myself to buy their beer unless I’m broke broke... but I’m highly intrigued by this...
Try the PBR extra it is flivor different beer .
Been trying to get our hands on this for our podcast! After seeing this, we MUST try it!
Lagg Distillery on Arran is releasing their peated new make at the distillery. Got to try some last year and it was pretty cool. Makes the Machrie Mor taste virtually unpeated!
Are there any whiskeys out there that are smoky but not with peat? Like wood smoked grain?
What if I put that in a sherry marinated 3L mini-cask for a year? Do you think it would turn into proper bourbon?
I have been seeing a few whiskys made with cold brew coffee. Is this becoming a trend I would like to see you cover this idea.
I second this!! I've been seeing it more and more and idk what to think of it lol. Always down to try a new whiskey though, so I'm definitely curious and more than interested in finding out what you guys think about it!
The cold brew Jameson was tasty
Try adding a bit to your next BBQ sauce
I've seen old ads (At St. Augustine Distillery, for instance.) For mail-in whiskeys. In particular, "Crystal Clear" and "Water Clear" whiskeys were available by mail! I think the ad read something like $2 for a gallon. I'd love to know the culture around drinking such spirits back in the day, whether people drank it straight and just muscled through, or if they made cocktails with it.
What would you recommend for a birthday bottle under $200.00 please reply
If you like new makes, try getting the Japanese stuff. Nagahama Distillery has 4 levels of peated new make (normal, lightly peated, peated and heavily peated), but it's $50 a 500ml bottle. I haven't tried any of it yet because I'm cheap.
This is actually quite good. Very smooth. Has a wonder bread taste mis palate. No burn at all.
Correction: Aged for 5 seconds not 5 minutes*
BAHAHA that's great
So it takes longer to pour it in and out than it spends in the barrel. Or do they just have one pipe going in and another coming out?
@@thegardenofeatin5965 The Esquire article says one pipe going in, and another coming out.
@@jic1 Continuous aging, nice.
There is a peated newmake on the market. Highland Park makes it. It's pretty damn good too!
Can you use an oak tube with holes at either end to "age" the new make for more than zero seconds?
This was aged 5 seconds, not minutes according to their website.
Wondering when you guys sit down and drink how much do you drink and anyone can answer
Really leaning into the hipster thing with the PBR, guys.
That joke was funny 15 years ago
@@enkidude well, it's ironic now. Sorry you don't get it
Before watching: "You get whatever you deserve on this one."
After watching: "I don't think I got what I deserved on this one. That was weird."
Maybe for marketing you could sell a pair of bottles together in the Technically series - "Technically Bourbon" and "Technically Not Bourbon." Blend a 2 barrel batch of new make. Fill the new charred barrel with half the batch and age for an hour. Drain and bottle "Technically Bourbon." Now put the rest of the batch into the used barrel and wait an appropriate amount of aging Texas time before bottling. Sell them only together as a 2 pack of 375ml bottles. For bonus you can mess with the remaining 49% of the mashbill and do different limited runs with just peated malt or just rye or some combination but the corn is always only 51%.
Is that Medieval II total war music I hear for the patron saint?
I will say, I've watched this channel of and on for a while. I searched this whiskey to see if it was reviewed. Because I bought it, sipped it and hated it. I came here to try and gain some appreciation. And while I still hate this whiskey.
Your ability to distinguish the tastes, particularly the stark unsweetened cinnamon which I picked out the second you mentioned it. But it was enough for me to know how little i knew about raw taste and appreciate even more your ability to name flavor and how little I know except for what I like without knowing why. Here's to finding out why.
We need to have Rex's wife on here for some Q&A.
Are you guys aware of allspice and caraway seeds in your tasting notes for this Pabst ?
Does it taste like 'shine?
What's a bottle you haven't had Daniel and Rex that you would love to try.
I'm interested to find out this, what differences in flavour happen between finishing something in a sherry cask or just blending bourbon and sherry cask together to create a flavour profile
I hope this makes sense but I'm curious cause I'm convinced there is a difference
Could be wrong but
Anyone tried the pbr hard coffee drinks? My wife loves them
Whisky Vault, you should try Kinnickinnic. Its from Great Lake distillery. Its also made in Milwaukee. Its really good stuff. Its like if Jameson and Knob creek had a love child.
As someone that lives in Holland (MI) where New Holland Brewing is from, I had no idea about this until now. Buy some Dragon's Milk from them, you wont regret it.
I’ve tried it, that shit is rough. Tasted like liquid dark rye bread.
Haven't been here in a while, and wow, those graphics!
I kept on checking my phone's calendar to see if PBR is doing a April Fool's product release during this review. I am curious about if they actually did age there product for 3 years and then 5 years if it may be a "good whisky"
Have y’all tried Duke and Dame? I would love to hear y’all thoughts
They'll have to change their jingle now...
"What'll you have? Pabst technically whiskey!"
You two are liking the clear’s right now 🤔
I have always wanted to try heavily peated new make! There is a Japanese distillery that made some so that they can start getting products on shelves but of course they never distributed them to the USA but want to try so bad. I would buy that from you guys if you did it.
Would love to see some close-ups of the labels and the bottles!
So did Pabst use their beer recipe as the mashbill on this one?
Teeling makes one. I had it in Dublin not too long ago at the distillery. It is pretty damn good.
Hey I literally saw a bottle of this on the shelf like 2 days ago at the store and was surprised that it was a thing, and then y'all make a video of it. maybe that's a sign I should try it? especially considering I'm from Michigan and live in Wisconsin now lol
Great episode.... love the shenanigans... An Idaho Whisk(e)y coming your way... will be there by Friday :)
I work security at target. You know the store that Rex’s wife bought him that god awful goodfellow shirt from? This whole covid thing has made my job pretty chaotic these past few weeks but the silver lining to my day is that after work I get to go home and enjoy a whiskey while I watch your show. I appreciate you guys and I was wondering if you had any advice on which Islay scotch I should go with to introduce myself to islay whiskey? I’m leaning towards Laphroaig 10 or Ardbeg 10 and was wondering which you would recommend?
You can't go wrong with either Ardbeg 10 or Laphroaig 10 for your intro to Islay. Personally, I prefer the Ardbeg.
Could we have an episode on which whiskies are currently occupying the "feature whiskey" wall?
Check out last Thursday's episode. I think it was Daniel's first crack at assigning one to every category
Big PBR fan here can not wait to find it !
You can have clear whiskey?
HOW, better yet, WHERE can I get a bottle of this?!!?
Do the same things that will poorly effect (affect, whatever) our normal whiskeys/bourbons also hurt new-make? I know air is a no-brainer, but what about light, etc?
Seeing as it's clear there shouldn't be any interaction with light, so light shouldn't affect it.
Should the category be called sub-bourbon?
Daniel, question: anthropology major who’d love to do some research after this pandemic is over. Would you & Rex want to check Mount Vernon & George Washington’s Rye Whiskey (and Apple brandy/applejack)?
ok, so haven't hit play yet as I am curious to see how close the guys come to my thoughts on this one. One of the worst tasting bottles I have bought in a long time. If you have ever been near a large brewery and smelled that sour sick smell? That is what this stuff tastes like. Salty, sour malt, with a dose of ethanol. Currently I am trying to save it by infusing with some spices etc... we are two weeks or so into it and will test later to see if it gets poured out. cheers
If I remember correctly, bourbon has to be made in new oak. Doesn't this make it expensive to make a "technically bourbon" because the barrel can no longer be reused to make bourbon?
The market for used barrels is probably vast enough that you would have an immediate way to sell your "used" bourbon barrels. But I agree with you that the turnover would serious if this was a large scale production.
Yeah, I had the same question since a good new barrel is a significant cost. But what if you used one new barrel per still run? You put the barrel on end with the new make trickling in the top and draining from the bung. It is still kind of stupid but I think it satisfies the rule.
@@contentioushackery I think you nailed it. From the Esquire article: "There's a barrel set up, and the flow rate's set for the speed at which [the whiskey] flows through; it has five contact seconds with the barrel, and it comes out the other side and we bottle it."
Well, there's plenty of whisk(e)y categories that you can age in used bourbon barrels. Either use the "technically bourbon" barrels to make some other whiskey with or sell it to someone who really wants to make something with the flavors a new barrel brings but can't technically use new barrels, like scotch whiskey distilleries which legally have to use used barrels.
Is it white whisky?
*Sips whiskey
"Yeah it tastes like (literally any object or edible thing that may have taste or smell)"
"Yeah I agree"
Onions and ketchup.
Hints of macaroni with some damp ruddy compost topnotes and a nice bedsheet finish.
Just got this as a gift, this shit is terrible man.
Just had my first sip. Nasty stuff, will be my first and last sip. Gonna use it to prank my friends and tell them "it's awesome dude, you gotta try it"
Personally, I find cigar tasting to be the worst.
People, it's smoke. It's gonna taste 95%, like, smoke...
You guys were way too nice. I tried this stuff back in October and... it's absolutely atrocious. Here's what I wrote about it on Reddit back then:
"So we're up visiting family in Wisconsin, and my soon to be brother in law and good friend saw this in a grocery store. He had to pick it up for the novelty and figured oh how bad could it be?
Both he and I like whiskey, typically Bourbon and Scotch. We're in our 40s and experienced drinkers, so not still idiots in our 20s. Idiots, but older. Anyway we get back to our family and get the bottle out. We grab a couple coffee cups because... Shit man this is PBR whiskey. We both say how bad can it be again?
We both take a whiff of the bottle.
We both recoil.
I'm not sure how to describe the nose in words to convey it. I got a sweet nose of what I can only describe as sour feedlot corn mixed with tequila and finish of pure grade a Walmart brand rubbing alcohol. Another family member got "oh my God is that shitty tequila?". "UGH WHAT IS THIS RACE FUEL?" and finally "it's like moldy Barton's vodka".
So we both clink our coffee cups and take a sip best. How much worse could it be?
Folks.. I love whiskey. I love it neat, I love it mixed. Hell I've drank Canadian club neat, and it wasn't great but it was whiskey. It was enjoyable enough. At night I like nothing more than a pour of WT101, Eagle Rare or Old Grand-Dad neat in a tumbler before bed. I haven't had a whiskey neat that's been really horrible. I mean the Crown Apple my neighbor had was bad, real bad, but drinkable.
This shit, this shit is on a new plane of existence. I have no idea how to adequately explain the tasting experience but I'll try. It hit my tongue sweet and as I started to swish and taste I got overhelmed with the most disgusting mix of liquor flavor I've ever had the displeasure of tasting. It was like someone mixed a tablespoon of sugar into a can of cream corn then left it out to for for a week. That's all I got before I recoiled in disgust and swallowed it. We both stood there coughing and gagging like 19 year olds who just had a warm old Milwaukee.
So there we are with a roomful of family enjoying our pain and still a bit of this shit left in our cups. What do we think? Let's add some diet Coke, maybe that will help. Maybe it won't be so bad.
No it was that bad. It was still that bad. The diet Coke muted the rubbing alcohol taste enough that we could fully taste that musty, gross corn and now barley taste in our cups. Mixed with diet fucking coke. Not even real Coke, no you never go half dumbass you go full dumbass.
You know the sunk cost fallacy? Well there we were, two old guys not ready to pour it down the drain so we sipped our terrible life choices while our family roared in laughter. We got to the final quarter of the cup and both of us had a simultaneously bad idea. Let's just slug it and be done with it.
Well this shit sipped is bad, but slugged is... Really bad. We both regretted our life choices and vowed to never again try that hooch.
I don't know who at PBR thought this was a good idea, or who ever will buy it and finish a bottle at $20-ish a bottle. Hell even at $13 this is terrible. Even free. Tonight I couldn't even drink a beer because I could smell musty barley. I drank stupid wine, and I don't like wine just so I could taste something not horrible.
Should you buy it? No. Never. Not even as a gag gift.
Score: 0/10"
My favorite new make is Gin.
So somewhat unrelated but I’ve gotten into bourbon now I like the sweetness and flavors I get with four roses single barrel and I tried gentleman’s jack by jack Daniels and did not like the spicy flavor of it. Where do I go from here trying to really find my niche of bourbon.
I suggest: Maker's Mark, Woodford Reserve, 1792 or Elijah Craig. They are all very nice middle-grounders in my opinion.
How do they make it clear whiskey
@W.T. F. oh, guessing it won’t be that nice then?
New Holland or New Belgium?
You guys should review glyph the lab made spirit which supposedly tastes just like whiskey
Back at the State Fair, every beer that scored an 80 or higher received a blue ribbon.
Sometimes a little while with some wood might be more than enough... It all depends on the wood-and what comes with it.
I don't know why, but I really want to try some PBR Bourbon now...
Can someone help me? I’d like to try whiskey but i don’t know where to start because i’ve never had it before. I like sweet liquor and all kinds of beer. What are great, smooth and sweet whiskey’s (or maybe even rums) to begin with?
bourbon is going to have more of a sweet taste to it. I recently finished a bottle of Legent that was a little sweeter than I prefer, but it might be someplace to start if you can still find it. I believe it was in the $30 range so it won't break the bank if you don't end up liking it.
Maker's Mark is one of the sweeter bourbons out there, in my opinion.
PBR and Rex seem like a match made in heaven.
New make peated would probably blow your head clean off. I’M IN!
make the onesey a union suit with the dont ask any questions on the flap
Is Rex saying that it only takes five minutes for big wooden shoes to wear out?
4:01 hey now
Yes on the peated new make!
Daniel: "I'm Daniel"
Rex: "And I am comfortable"
Me: "Hi, Comfortable, I am dad".
Sorry, I needed to. Sorry.
Wouldn’t bourbon also require 2years of age?
To be straight bourbon
SteelWarrior115 ah that’s right,
I’d like to see the new make version of George Dickel, George Dickel #1
You need to use the "technically bourbon" barrels in an "American whiskey" so as not to lose the almost freshly charred American oak barrel.
Moonshine would have sounded better than clear whiskey