Mystery Scotch Tasting with Gentlemen of the World
Mystery Scotch Tasting with Gentlemen of the World
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Ever wonder how a glass of Scotch can transport you to a camping trip under a starlit desert night? Join us, the Gentlemen of the World, as we navigate through a thrilling mystery Scotch tasting. Our first stop is a deep dive into the visual appeal of our drink. We draw parallels between its coloration and various beverages such as an Irish whiskey, a Chardonnay, or a Pinot Grigio. Behold, as we appreciate the 'legs' of the Scotch and their potential impact on mouthfeel, while also detecting various scent notes from smoke to moss to "a gushers ball".
Our journey doesn't end there. We set off to revel in the Scotch's flavor profiles, comparing it to a wide spectrum of things, even the notorious Malort.
In the final leg of our adventure, we lay bare our honest ratings of this intricate Scotch. After contemplating its complexity and individual components, we declare it an ideal drink for a camping trip or a desert night escapade. So, come along and raise a glass with us, as we toast to the health of the Scotch and its enchanted drinkers. Here's to an episode brimming with spirit and cheer!
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Speaker 1This is Mystery Scotch tasting with Gentlemen of the World. We are a club that gets together and we try Scotch blind With us tonight. I am Justin, I am Dave, alex, evan.
Speaker 3Nathan.
Speaker 1Andrew Dave Vern. And as we do every month, we start by picking up our glasses and analyzing the color of the Scotch we're drinking. So what do we see, guys, by looking at our glasses? Scotch Vrenchy, scotch. Good start, this is light.
Speaker 4Yes, very, very light. Yeah, watered down green tea, yeah, light golden, yeah, mm-hmm.
Speaker 6But if I was going just by color, this looks to me more like an Irish whiskey. Yeah, oh, that would be my first guess if I was just being shown this and didn't know a Scotch.
Speaker 1We call, you're saying it's Irish whiskey, it's not Scotch.
Speaker 4But it's like, or it's Macalmy, it's like what? Pinot Grigio? Yeah, mm, it's not even Chardonnay, it's not even that golden. I don't know I might go Chardonnay.
Speaker 7Well, here's the Chardonnay it's pretty firm, so the legs are sticky, though yeah, is there anyone in the club that's genuinely a wine person?
Speaker 6I like wine a lot, I love wine. Do you guys both know wine pretty well? I was just curious.
Speaker 3I drink wine pretty well, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2That's funny.
Speaker 3I think I actually may be going to a Riesling tasting tomorrow night.
Speaker 6Whoa, I don't even feel like I know you anymore. You said it. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1Well, so what else do we see?
Speaker 3Or is that all we see?
Speaker 4We just see Pinot.
Speaker 1Grigio, and that is what we're drinking, and.
Speaker 4I'm seeing some legs in the glass.
Speaker 3Yeah, I'm seeing sticky legs Sticky legs, sticky legs, sticky legs.
Speaker 2I pulled up the tasting notes and everything with it, but I did not read them. So, whatever I do say wholeheartedly, is this claimer Good for you, alex. Good for you Alex.
Speaker 7Thank you. Good job, nice, I don't love you, but thank you Whatever.
Speaker 1Andrew is really taking his legs for a walk.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's like really cloudy. You got cloudy. Yeah, it's like gray and cloudy.
Speaker 7Dirty, dirty glass.
Speaker 1Who washed these glasses?
Speaker 7I mean. The legs, though, are notable.
Speaker 4I'm kind of expecting this to be maybe a little on the oily kind of waxy mouth feel.
Speaker 6It looks like a Christmas tree ornament there we go Christmas tree Legs are running.
Speaker 4Can I smell it? Yeah, let's smell this puppy. We're going to smell it. Smells nice. Oh, I like it.
Speaker 7Can we rate it, can we?
Speaker 1rate it, it makes on the smell alone. It does smell really good it smells yeah, and familiar.
Speaker 4Yeah, it does smell familiar.
Speaker 7Yeah, like the sticky kind of smoky peaty, but not overly.
Speaker 1Snicky, snicky bogey beady, snicky poody peaty.
Speaker 4Okay, so there's a note we've thrown out a few times, but do it Andrew. Maybe it's me so that's why it feels familiar. But this, to me, is very early morning on the beach. Campfires have been extinguished, but you're still getting the smell of them. Yeah, that's sweet seaweeds. Yeah, yeah, sweet seaweeds, a little bit of like salty breeze.
Speaker 6Yeah, does it smell boozy to you guys Slightly?
Speaker 4It's kind of a bit of a little prickle, yeah, hmm.
Speaker 2It's like a vanilla candy. Like a creamy vanilla candy yeah.
Speaker 1It's kind of a word prickle, and that sparked prickly pear in my head and now, I don't know why but?
Speaker 4I am smelling pear.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, good inception job.
Speaker 4I guess I'm going to say what is that? What is that Orchard?
Speaker 1fruit.
Speaker 8Hmm.
Speaker 7General orchard fruit. Yeah, actually, general orchard fruits, all of them.
Speaker 6They're a small basket full of orchard fruits. Yeah, they're at their prime. Harry and David gift basket.
Speaker 4Or the things that are in the basket, just the basket.
Speaker 7Banana Laffy, taffy, that's good.
Speaker 5I was kind of like an artificial but actual, real banana.
Speaker 6Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 7I get like a peel, but I get, I get the laughing taffy banana.
Speaker 4It's been a while since I've had a laughing taffy Does that.
Speaker 1I haven't even been able to feel
Speaker 7like I'm on a banana roast. No, I think that's makes it better. That's a bonus.
Speaker 5Yeah, it's a little fun fact, so that artificial banana flavor is actually based on the real flavor of banana, not the current flavor, fresh, the original, like it's actual, what bananas should taste like.
Speaker 2So you're smelling real banana yeah exactly so bananas are not bananas.
Speaker 5Bananas are not bananas. No, bananas are still bananas, but it's not the varietal that used to be prominent in the United States.
Speaker 1Hmm, it's the way God intended bananas.
Speaker 7Is anybody?
Speaker 1getting your mind.
Speaker 7Really ripe. Is it a honeydew melon? Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 6It's like a super ripe More, more, more.
Speaker 7Like you're about to go bad almost, but if you don't eat it this second?
Speaker 5it's bad.
Speaker 7You have one second to eat this, there it goes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5But then I take in I get like a lot of like ocean spray seaweed. So there's really some peat in here.
Speaker 1There's a moss type smell to it and then rock candy I definitely like rock candy River rock candy For garage.
Speaker 6you're not allowed to say I definitely echo the banana note, but like it's like, like I think if like banana cream pie with, like them with some sauce, or because it it's got like this kind of caramelized yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, there's that lime mineral note there too. Yeah, way in the background.
Speaker 7Never had a scotch. When you guys are talking, we're all talking and every time I smell it and somebody says something, I smell that Like it is so dynamic and maybe it's a magic scotch, I feel pheasant with flavor.
Speaker 5On the nose. We haven't even tasted it. No, no, are we allowed to? No, we can't.
Speaker 7We're not allowed to taste it. That's episode two next month.
Speaker 8This, whatever it is, reminds me a lot of this.
Speaker 3Oh, the fin login Really.
Speaker 8Yeah, I'm getting a lot of the fin login notes, the just standard eye-lay kind of thing.
Speaker 1Maybe Alex is pulling like a mega trickery move, and so it is.
Speaker 8I don't think anybody's tasted that. I'm just swirling it, and every time I go back in.
Speaker 4I'm getting like menthol, eucalyptus, like that very cool heat Crap.
Speaker 7Yeah, I'll give it to you.
Speaker 4I definitely see the menthol you can kind of see, rub on here It'll smell like chestnut grape over up.
Flavor
Speaker 7Yeah, it's almost that it does smell oily, it smells like it's going to stick. It does as.
Speaker 1Vix does yeah, yeah, that's. I think mostly what it does, is this mostly Vix?
Speaker 7Hedged in.
Speaker 4Vix barrels Each ring is going to look more like a small bit I get on the nose.
Speaker 5Have you guys tried any yet?
Speaker 4No, have you.
Speaker 6Did you try it, I did. I did Whoa All right, oh, we're trying things.
Speaker 8Here we go, we're allowed to.
Speaker 4I'm enjoying the smell of it so much.
Speaker 2Wow, there's that mineral 100%.
Speaker 5Wow, it's a lot more aggressive, the minerals that was there.
Speaker 3Yeah there's some heat. That's got a lot more punch to it than I thought. Oh my gosh, my first note was chili powder Like immediately on the tongue it was chili powder.
Speaker 6Does it taste? Feel like it has like a slight delay for you guys? Yeah, it felt like I tasted it and it was very mild and then, like it, like my palate got like body slammed I had one second after yeah.
Speaker 8I had an initial flavor and then immediately like disappeared and it became something else.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 8Like the initial flavor I got.
Speaker 3Actually was like a go back to what Evan was talking about earlier, before we started recording, was the milk punch.
Speaker 8Oh yeah, like the body. Yeah, it's something like thick and sweet, but then that sweetness like disappears instantly.
Speaker 1This scotch is a Bond girl you like. James Bond meets her, you know, at the bar and he's like oh, hey, cool. And she's like, oh, nice to meet you, and like cut cuddles and clothes, and then just body slams. And then, like ready to go, and then somehow they make love.
Speaker 5And then it's like, yeah, so for me it's like you know, classic Pete, you know medicinal smoky flavor, and then it finishes like kind of surprisingly bitter, especially for, like, the nose being so sweet, so kind of like candy, sweet, and then just finishes bitter. It's really interesting.
Speaker 7I don't think I've ever had a scotch at finishes like this. Yeah, and then it finishes like not IPA flavors, but the same feeling of when you have a really bitter IPA. You know that's really.
Speaker 6Yeah, there's like some great. I repeat, all the aftertaste, exactly.
Speaker 2So I was going to say people who like, don't like cilantro. It's that taste which maybe leans towards a grapefruit, it's like that bitterness, so be.
Speaker 5Yeah, so be.
Speaker 2Did you put?
Speaker 5malort in this no.
Speaker 2I think that goes back just to the mineral stuff. Probably yeah.
Speaker 4Yeah. So it's like a different mineral, different sort of on a different vibe. I get a lot of like spice and pepper, but it doesn't so heat. I get a lot of heat. I still am getting chili powder second on my second sip, but it's not to me. It's not like an alcohol Like. This is 60%, it's more of a spice heat.
Speaker 1If that makes sense. I mean you brought up the chili peppers early.
Speaker 4You know, that was the first thing and I'm still getting it.
Speaker 6The stomach is telling me that it's 50%, but my mouth is like you're fine, but then the catclaw is kind of a fire.
Speaker 4It's totally comfortable Like on the palette though.
Speaker 7It's really surprising.
Speaker 4Yeah, it's savory. I'm very savory.
Speaker 7I'm getting like salted meats and stuff at the end.
Speaker 1Say more about that, vern.
Speaker 5The meats are salted, well salted, it's going to sound kind of weird, but it's like it's almost like a gusher. Like, the flavor explodes in your mouth.
Speaker 7Like a gentlemen's gusher. Yes.
Speaker 2So I spent a significant amount of time looking at these bottles yes, I did not look into the bottles by any means. It was strictly on what the bottle looked like. I don't know. Leave it at that.
Speaker 7Oh we went faster than before.
Speaker 5It doesn't look like a giant bag of gushers.
Speaker 2Whoever has the coolest label wins.
Speaker 1Did you just buy a ton of gushers and squeeze all the juices out to make a scotch bottle?
Speaker 5No, that's not what I'm talking about. It's the experience, the idea of gushers, come on.
Speaker 1I think I know you're not talking about that, but I think I am.
Speaker 2Open the gusher packs and pick one big gusher ball.
Speaker 7No, you make me think of something.
Speaker 6So you compounded all of them into one pack. Three or four packs, three or four packs. You were allowed to have more than one pack. Yeah yeah bro, yeah Rich, over here I had to have a birthday to get a pack of gushers.
Speaker 2Come on, man. Yeah, I got your ball. You're never too late to try it. You can do it now. You're an adult. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 8So do you just like compact it into a ball and then?
Speaker 2eat it like an apple. Probably don't let your skin if you're going to see you doing it.
Speaker 6Yeah, it's very shameful. I'm sure Sounds fun.
Speaker 3Yeah, sounds like something I'll do in my car behind the 7-Eleven bottle of malort.
Speaker 1They're just gushers.
Speaker 5They're just gushers.
Speaker 1But are you putting them together in?
Speaker 6a ball. I was thinking about it.
Speaker 5Anymore Another gush of all guys. So third arrest this week.
Speaker 3I keep coming back to that grapefruit, though it reminds me of like a candied grapefruit ride. I don't know if you've ever had that, that kind of gummy rind, those candied grapefruit rinds where you get that sweet, but there's just that bitterness at the end. It almost like you taste, like you tested a 9 volt. You're just kind of getting that at the end.
Speaker 4So I'm getting like on the palate kind of the briny oyster liquor, the oyster the briny stuff, and then I don't know if this is along the lines of the bitterness that you guys are talking about, but the finish for me is almost like ash.
Speaker 7Yeah, I was going to say ash. I think you're right.
Speaker 4And I think we're both right With ash Oysters to ash.
Speaker 6For me it tastes like a Dominican, like Maduro cigar. Not the taste of the smoke, but the actual taste when you're holding the cigar in your mouth.
Speaker 3It's very referential Because that has its own taste right.
Speaker 6So that kind of informs the palate of what the smoke's going to taste like, but specifically like a Dominican cigar.
Speaker 1Yeah, my mouth is so dry.
Speaker 7And it's very dry. I mean, I know about your mouth, but my mouth is dry yeah, should we touch mouths no.
Speaker 6I think we might need to touch mouths.
Speaker 7Touching mouths.
Speaker 1I feel like I'm dehydrated. So that's Vern's mouth.
Speaker 4But I think you're right. This is one of the driest, yeah.
Speaker 1I am thirsty for water, jesus.
Speaker 3It could be brought up wine earlier, but it's odd to think of the like a tannin or like that tannic feel that you get from that really dry red that kind of dries your mouth out Like a black tea, something that really dries your mouth out. It's kind of unusual to have a scotch that one hits your palate and kind of explodes with sweetness and flavor to associate with kind of moisture in the mouth Moist.
Speaker 6Moist, moist, moist mouth.
Speaker 3But to have this kind of dryer mouth out is. It's an interesting. That kind of like after effect on the palate is unusual.
Speaker 7More than num or more than dry. I'm getting like numbing. Yeah, it's like, it's like a mouth, it's like a mouth.
Speaker 6But it doesn't taste like a, it's like a mint fall note yeah.
Speaker 5So the interesting thing is, I added like a cap full of water.
Speaker 1He did it. You added water without telling anybody, wow.
Speaker 5You sneaky, wow you guys are like sneaky, you know what I'm saying, yeah, sneaking in a little cap full of water here and there, and it really actually accentuates the bitterness. So if that's like the kind of flavor note that you enjoy, like I got a lot more of the grapefruit peel, a lot more of that like kind of like not puckering, but like kind of like bitterness.
Speaker 8I'm intrigued yeah.
Speaker 5It's worth a try. I personally don't like it, but that's that's a personal preference.
Speaker 2I mean, you put more lard in it. You did put more lard in it, really Sorry, that's what I meant.
Speaker 5A cap full of lard is what I.
Speaker 6Sweetness isn't like a note that I'm necessarily ever looking for. Yeah, but while this is sweet, it's like really delight, like it's really nicely balanced and there's like a lot of other flavors, because usually anytime- I have any scotch or like any type of like drink that's got some sweetness to it. It's overly sweet. This one feels kind of in the pocket, no, where it's not overpowering yeah.
Speaker 7Did you guys ever do a honey baked hams? Yeah, Sugar glazed ham yeah, that's like fire roasted, yeah, and I feel like I get some of that here too.
Speaker 4Totally, that's that's not far off, because the ham is smoked and you get that kind of there's that smoked meat, yeah To it, but it's got that sweet glaze on it.
Speaker 2You figured it out. Yeah, that's what it is. Yeah, that's what it is. It's what it is, yeah.
Speaker 4It's what it is, yeah.
Speaker 2It's what it is. It's what it is.
Speaker 4Yeah, it's what it is.
Speaker 3I get it just right on the tip of my tongue, right when I get it Tippy sweetness, just the tippy sweetness.
Speaker 7Yeah.
Speaker 3Just the tip of sweetness.
Speaker 7The tip of sweetness is a great novel.
Speaker 8Yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 1Many award winning.
Speaker 8So I added some water to it, like as well. And you're right, it is like bringing out more of the bitterness, like more of the like. Honestly, it's weird. It kind of brings a malort pencil shade it looks like is it super appealing for me. I was hoping for it to open up more and might be find more of the sweetness.
Speaker 5To like you, it's more of the bitter notes. So the interesting thing is, now that it's been sitting for a while or maybe it's just my palate might be ruined it's getting a little more sweet, a little more smoky. So I don't know, I'm kind of. I'm actually digging it more now.
Speaker 4I haven't added water, but I do get some of the pencil shavings. Yeah, it's there.
Speaker 5It's not pencil shavings, it's juniper.
Speaker 7Nature's pencil shavings Juniper beers.
Speaker 6Nature's gushers.
Speaker 7It's true. It is true.
Speaker 1David, will you pass me the water? You're going to do it.
Speaker 7I mean it just burns. I don't think I'll want to just get it.
Speaker 1All the reviews that I've heard about adding water is are negative.
Speaker 8Yeah, but that's burn over there.
Speaker 1Um, do we have anything else to say about this Gosh?
Speaker 3the roof of my mouth feels like somebody took like a fine sandpaper to it.
Speaker 6I feel like you had either fruit loops or a bonny sandwich.
Speaker 5Yeah, captain Crouch, captain Crouch, captain Crouch, dude dagger bread.
Speaker 6They're almost always dagger bread.
Speaker 3Yeah. Maybe, like a four zero steel wool Just politely, just politely, just politely Just removed some. Yeah, it's a little rough, yeah, exploited.
Speaker 7It's a little numb.
Speaker 1It's a little numb, but it's not roughed up. Yeah.
Speaker 8Like, like, just like Captain Crunch does, it's not like.
Speaker 1I didn't just eat a bowl of Captain Crunch, I just did like a numbing, it was a numbing cream.
Speaker 4This has got the Scotch cares. The Scotch cares About me. Approximately two minutes ago, I smelled it again and I got like what are the little mini You're going back to the beginning the mini lobsters, longa, prada, the langosteens. The langosteens, the crud dads, the stings. No, not crud the langosteens.
Speaker 7The little ghosteens.
Speaker 4But now, I'm getting that brownish glue that has, like, the rubber tip at an angle and you like angle the bottle. You know what I'm talking about Wood glue.
Speaker 2Oh that's something that's super high.
Speaker 4It's not wood glue, taipant, maybe, I don't know. It's got the orange like silicone rubber. Yeah, taipant, yeah.
Speaker 7And then the little, thing, the little thing Kind of a. Thing.
Speaker 4Middle school like back in the day. Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 5Yeah, I think they took that off the market Like that's like the most touching.
Speaker 6Yeah, when Lawn Darts got taken off.
Speaker 4I think it was.
Speaker 6March too. I remember it was March. Yeah, those three-wheeler motorcycles got to go too, yeah.
Speaker 4Well, this guy's brain back memories Three-wheel motorcycles Maybe.
Speaker 8Hmm.
Speaker 7Who was our last listener? Alexander Road, okay, so if Alexander Road was a car, driving a vehicle. What vehicle would Alexander Road be driving? Hmm?
Speaker 4Hmm, hmm, that's interesting because his last name is Road. Yep, that helps, so we can do a study. We'd definitely be driving a car. Yeah, I think he would be singing now.
Speaker 2Not an off-road vehicle.
Speaker 7Okay, fair enough. I feel like this has got some off-road capabilities.
Speaker 4Yeah, definitely His last name is Road, but there is a dirt road, but you could have road off-road.
Speaker 2This is like a highway in the morning driving down to the beach. No.
Speaker 7No, that's on your three-wheel track with a backpack full of mondo.
Speaker 2Okay, fuck me, this is rugged, this is.
Speaker 6I got yours under your radar, got your mow. Are we trying to say that this?
Speaker 7is a different kind of enjoyable. It's like when you get to camping or you're on your way to go camping I don't know how many you camp Like. You get there and then you're on the road. You know like putting in the big, like three hour stretch, and then right when you hit the dirt and you crack the beer and you're off-road. You're off-road freshly from the road. Does that make sense? Mm-hmm, somebody else have this experience?
Speaker 7Yeah, you've transitioned from like I am commuting to like I am now recreationally driving. Yeah, and that's when you can crack that beer, Mm-hmm, and the road is rough and you're kind of you don't know where you're going exactly. You're kind of following maybe some GPS coordinates or whatever. You're going down this curvy road. The sun is setting, you're kind of rushing to get there, but you're, you just got on vacation after a long drive.
Speaker 4And all that kind of car is about Alexander's driving this car.
Speaker 7And that has nothing to do with the.
Speaker 4Scotch that we're driving.
Speaker 8What the car is, what this does everything to do with the Scotch yeah.
Speaker 2This Scotch is like right when you go off-road.
Speaker 7You lost me right when we went off-road. I guess we should be talking about what vehicle it is.
Speaker 5Yes, no, Verna, I'm kind of there with you. Thank you, this is a smart-ass. I mean, this is your car that you love, and I don't have a specific car in mind. It's a car that you love. But, little Genki, you know you're getting to this. You're going to the camping site. You're not quite sure. Is it going to make it, is it not? Is it going to make it home? Not quite sure. But once you get there, it's like fuck it, we'll deal with it later.
Speaker 2Yeah, I think the seats are old cloth seats that smell like vanilla too.
Speaker 3Yeah but they're comfortable, they're real comfortable. Couple of tears, they're your seats.
Speaker 7Stacey, there's a word for tears.
Speaker 3I'm going to go in a different direction now Okay, we're going uphill.
Speaker 1It's going to be kind of like my Bond girl type thing, I feel like that's a lot of yeah, I feel like you get. You get in this car and you're like oh, there's a nice little, like pretty Porsche or something like sitting there. And then you get in the car and boom, you're in Transformers four and the car all sudden like gets like these gigantic like wheels and transforms into a thing and then like starts running and you're like.
Speaker 1Whoa now like this car is like a robot and like I'm on the beach and now I'm fighting like demons and shit, we're on the beach.
Speaker 4So this is the Michael Bay of the Sky, yeah. You see her going in a different direction. Yeah, Transformers four.
Speaker 1So that's the vehicle. Okay, the vehicle is a transformer, but you see it and it's like a Porsche and you're like, oh, you have no idea that you're about to step into a robot that's going to like get up and have like a sword and like a shotgun in one hand. It does just like start like fighting bitches.
Speaker 7Well, high metal, mineral content, I mean a robot would, would taste like a robot. I think this would have something like a robot.
Speaker 1Thank you.
Speaker 8I think this is like a old, like 60s era, like military Jeep yeah.
Speaker 7Just like something that's got a lot of rust on it Like the front windshield down, exactly Like you can get some dirt in your teeth no windshield. No windshield, yeah Like it's.
Speaker 8It's not.
Speaker 7Don't believe in them.
Speaker 8It's not going to be appealing for everybody, but like it's going to be super appealing for certain people, yeah. Because like this is enjoyable but like I think this is more of an acquired taste, scotch for people that have been drinking scotch than somebody that's new to scotch, kind of thing.
Speaker 7I think that's bang on. I think that's fantastic.
Speaker 4Now that I understand the call of the question, I'm going to agree with Dave. I was going to say this reminds me of like a 60s kind of sleeper muscle car, where you're getting some of the exhaust in the cab with you. It's loud, it's fast, it's strong.
Speaker 6It rattles a bit. It rattles a bit.
Speaker 4The seats have Mexican blanket. It's a Bench C with Mexican blankets.
Speaker 2Yeah, american you got a sort of board in the back. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1And then Harrison Ford's driving. Okay, yeah, american graffiti. Yeah, so it's the aluminum foil.
Speaker 4No, I don't think it has a slick paint job Actually Okay.
Speaker 7It's a little one that is coming it does.
Speaker 1Did it have?
Speaker 4Camaro Yellow Camaro no he drove like a truck.
Speaker 1He drove like a black truck in American graffiti but it had like. It was like a speed demon truck, but remember he had like a cowboy hat. Yeah, I think he barely spoke in the movie, I think. I've seen it. He would just pull up to other like cars and just like do the old, the look, the old nod, and then they would race and he'd beat them. This got you that nod. Now we're talking. Yeah, hold on. So the vehicle that came to mind. Oh yeah, that's good. That's the Harrison Ford.
Speaker 6The vehicle that came to mind to me would be like a 62 series Land Cruiser, so it would be Lake.
Speaker 2East.
Speaker 6Vernon and I both had one at the same time, the same one.
Speaker 3The same one. No, we had different ones, they just had the vehicle.
Speaker 7I was thinking after soccer I had a white one.
Speaker 6He had a blue one about the same time and they didn't perform that well, but they're fucking rad. Yeah, Great vehicles but gutless 148 horsepower.
Speaker 7It's all you need to get the heaviest vehicle ever. But yeah, don't go up a mountain.
Gueses
Speaker 6Yeah, but it's a quirky, fun rig and reminds me of this Scotch.
Speaker 3Well does anybody have like a guess, yeah, of what we're drinking here.
Speaker 1Region year. I like BV yeah.
Speaker 5I'm going to highlight.
Speaker 7I think, that I like 47% burclotic.
Speaker 4Wow, I love 46%. I don't know, okay, which distillery.
Speaker 1So we're all on the ILA train. It sounds like, yes, abv, little bit of fluctuation, but high 40s. Sounds like it's kind of the club vibe.
Speaker 6I'm going to go hard 50.
Speaker 1Oh, dave yeah that's hard.
Speaker 4Does anybody?
Speaker 8have year guesses Year. Yeah, I'm curious because I have no clue.
Speaker 6You have a year. I have no clue. That's the one that. I think I never get.
Speaker 2I can never get hard. I'd say 12ish.
Speaker 7Yeah, I'm going 12. These days it's different.
Speaker 8Based on the color. Yeah, I think it's either like a 4 or a 12.
Speaker 4Yeah, first fill or refill ex-burban barrel. Not long yeah, so I would say like eight years, Maybe six.
Speaker 7Yeah, yeah, like a little six Like a gnarly mash bill, and then first fill Burbans. Yeah, distillery I already said, it's perclotic.
Speaker 1A.
Speaker 4End of show, that's a wrap.
Speaker 1Feel like an indelible, just a contrarian.
Speaker 7Yeah.
Speaker 8I was about to say it's like a luffa. It could be a year Like fancy barrels.
Speaker 6Remember even that it's sort of like art banks are great, I was going to say art banks.
Speaker 3I liked the game of the Indians. It's like a weebee.
Speaker 5It's like a weebee, but not enough can. That's right? Not enough pit.
Speaker 4Now I really want to see the bottle.
Speaker 8I'm gonna try yeah.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1So do you want to go around and rate this puppy? Let's rate this puppy. All right, okay, I'll go first. I liked it a lot. I liked that man. I liked that it was a Bond girl because I liked James Bond. I liked that it was complex on the nose. We had a lot to talk about. I feel like there's a lot more fruits.
Speaker 1It was a lot smoother of a ride when we first started off, which is awesome, and then all of a sudden it changed and was just like just kidding, I'm not jazz, I'm hardcore, I'm metal, metal and I really like that. I like that. It changed a lot. It was almost like not quite two scotches for the price of one. If you add water and it changes something drastic, that's really good. Then you get the. Then you get the two fur, from me at least, but I loved that. I don't know it was. It was a lady on the street but a freak in the bed. No, yeah, yeah. When you smelt it you're like oh, this is so nice, pear, there was all kinds of like more sweeter, gentler kind of things thrown out there. And then you drink it and you're like this is a really awesome rough ride. So I'm going to give it a nine for me. Whoa, I'm starting off the pod. That's cool. I'm already Fern, what do you got?
Speaker 7Sorry, I was Instagramming at the moment so I didn't hear anything that you said.
Speaker 1I'm sure it was pretty. It was just know that it was fantastic.
Speaker 5It was good. Probably, if I gave anything, it was the best thing he's ever said. Probably.
Speaker 7I'll have to listen to the podcast. Yeah, two of you. Yeah, this is hard because I don't know when we didn't really talk about when you would drink this. I don't know we didn't talk about seasons. This might be a campfire scotch.
Speaker 6I can't imagine. Is it a cold weather scotch or a warm weather scotch? I think it'd be Well I think it'd be.
Speaker 7Either You're just going to be camping, it's probably something you could have a cigar with. It's got enough stuff going on. Maybe it's too much going on if you have a cigar, I don't know.
Speaker 2Can I lay a scene?
Speaker 7It's a lot.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's like it's kind of a warm day. Sun was out, sun goes away. Wind kicks up, windy scotch. The wind kicks up.
Speaker 7It's a windy scotch, it's a sailing scotch.
Speaker 2Yeah, I love that Sun goes down, it's cool. Yeah, are we at altitude.
Speaker 6Would you associate this with altitude?
Speaker 7But nothing crazy, nothing crazy. You're at 4K and you've got 20 knots coming over Coming down your back the cruise yeah.
Speaker 5You have this 20 knots coming in your back, coming in from the east.
Speaker 7Yeah, I know it's significant, but you need something that is going to shake things up. You need a scotch that's going to redirect your attention from just like the I don't know the simple novelty things of camping and be like hey, this is a little bit bigger and you've got to focus on it a bit more. I mean, I guess it takes your focus. I will say this is an 8.0. I liked it. I want to try it again. What do we do? Do we have like a kind of a number that we say like I would drink it again? Is that eight or is it?
Speaker 1nine. That's whatever you want it to be.
Speaker 7For me personally.
Speaker 1I, one of my. One of the biggest things that I feel like is can I, would I buy this and bring it at home? And for me, this got you, I would bring it at home, which is why I give it a nine. So for me that's kind of like if you, if I, want this at home, you're automatically an eight and above, but that's just me.
Speaker 7I think I'll go with eight point eight. I'll stick with that. I think it has my interest. I want to try it again. Jury's out a little bit for me and but I'm definitely by curious.
Speaker 1Okay, very good.
Speaker 6For me. I'm at an eight two. I really liked it. I don't gravitate towards like sweeter scotches, but this one had so many fun savory and wild notes that I even though it was like on the sweeter end, on the front end I really dug the wild ride. So that brings me to an eight two Nice.
Speaker 1Andrew.
Speaker 4I think I'm a seven, seven, five. I did like it, I liked a lot, but as time went on with it, I didn't, it didn't bowl me over. Did you like it less as you went on? No, I didn't like it less, but I didn't like it more. And usually I feel like with time, I like a scotch more. If I'm gonna, you know, be up in the eights and the nines Nothing objectionable for me I would definitely put this in in the camping scotches, I think. As you guys were talking about it, I think this might be a desert scotch because it's dry and hot, I feel like this is like I want this in Joshua Tree.
Speaker 4Sun goes down, air gets cool, sitting around the fire. This is this is what I want. To me it wasn't all that sweet, unless you count like the smoke, the sweet smoke or things of that sort, but yeah. I enjoyed it. I don't know I might buy it. I really want to know what it is. Yeah, I can't wait. This is a distinct point. I think curiosity might be my overwhelming response to it right now.
Speaker 1Nathan.
Speaker 3Yeah, I think I'm gonna build on the desert theme here. Build, baby. I think that Andrew nailed it. It feels like a desert scotch because it is a little dry and a little hot, and I'm gonna build off of Vern's comment too and call this a Santa Anna wind scotch. There we go. It's a little chaotic, there's a little danger, a little uneasiness, a little paranoia, a little paranoia.
Speaker 3As a tasting note that's five, even when you were talking about the vehicles pulling off the road. I'm thinking Salton Sea, yeah, the Salton Sea scotch. I'm heading off the main road. I'm heading towards or away from Slab City, I don't know.
Speaker 1Wow, it doesn't matter, I'm getting lost, it's poetry, it's chaos.
Speaker 3I think part of that is that the nose and the taste had so much distinction, like Justin alluded to with his Transformers reference. It was. It was a Transformer On the nose, it was stone fruits, it was summer wheat colors, it was legs for days and the second it hit my palate. It was a burst of gushing fruit and then it immediately turned bitter and those grapefruit notes just came out and just dry. Chaotic desert, santa Anna winds yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1Most of the guys at this table are hard right now. Continue, continue. Greatest scotch ever.
Speaker 3Well, I think that's my dismount, so I'm going to give this an eight. I'm going to give this an eight.
Speaker 7Wow, wow, I know poetry and chaos and only an eight and paranoia.
Speaker 3But I'm having a hard time reading this, because this is your paranoid, because I'm a little freaked out because this is an unusual scotch. This isn't a comfort bottle. This isn't the old familiar. This isn't something that I reach for because I've had a hard day and now I want to relax. This is I'm ready to fucking kill someone.
Speaker 7Or you just did.
Speaker 3So I'm giving it an eight because if I was rating this on the sense of what I buy, this absolutely To me and eight and above is I would I would bring this home. I don't know that I can bring it up from that in the sense that you're too scared to. I'm a little freaked out, yeah. I can just I want to come down.
Speaker 2Chase us with a monster. Oh yes, there's a monster involved.
Speaker 8We're talking about the energy drink or like stop monster man. It's hard to follow that up.
Speaker 5That was really well said. Just say a number and we'll I'm going to say, going to give it an eight point five, and I mean, for lack of a better term, I want to put this one in this bank, bank.
Speaker 5I don't want to, you know I don't need to go back there all the time. But you know, I want to keep this one in my back pocket and ready to go when I want it or when I need it. You know, there's a little out there, a little harsh, a little bitter, but now that my cup is empty I'm like God. I could use a little bit more of that, you know you miss it and I don't know.
Speaker 5It kind of had all the right notes for me. You know it was if I were to give it a criticism. It was a little bit too bitter, but that's probably what makes it, you know, makes me want a little bit more.
Speaker 2But so eight point five Hmm, alex, 9.25 one of the best.
Speaker 8That's it.
Speaker 2That's all you want to say hey man, I know everything about the spawn.
Speaker 8I'm gonna, I'm, I'm. I'm lower than most people. I'm a the 7 5 for me. I Enjoyed. Yeah, I'm the contrary. This is the classic Dave. So I enjoyed this but there were things that I wish it had like. I wish like the sweeter notes that I had at the beginning, like Lasted a little bit longer. I wish it tasted less light, less bitter. It's good and I'm very much looking forward to trying it again and giving it a second shot, but on first, first glance for me, I'm in just 7.5.
Speaker 1Hmm, okay, give very, we're gonna be talking about you.
Speaker 7That seems fair okay.
Speaker 3For how I think that's a great score for this.
Speaker 7Yeah, and scary the Scotch oh.
Speaker 4Dave and I rated it lowest and I think both of us would, hands down, give it another go.
Speaker 7Yeah.
Speaker 4I mean yeah, it was. It was really fun. It was really intriguing. It's just like I was I was waiting for something else.
Speaker 8I feel like it's never kick another tasting no or yeah, I mean to be honest, I think for me it was not what I was expecting Alex to bring to the table, because the last few bottles. Well the last year like pancakes and like breakfast.
Speaker 6Independent.
Speaker 2Magnifico to expect a zero from the art department?
Speaker 4Oh, it's a signature and I knew that I was gonna do this. It's a color.
Speaker 2Drop what I dropped on it. I Was taking a big risk and I'm glad I took the risk.
Speaker 2It was a gamble Signature and it's the unfilled filtered collection, meaning that when it gets colder it gets smokier, gray or more pale. What the bottle is even worse, dave. It has, like as seen on TV, font on here. I Really took a big risk, but I am so proud of us, all of us, because there is not one thing that we missed. We hit it all first off. So it's in a hogshead cask. So ex bourbon barrels with the new tops, right, it's 56 or 58%, or the bottle says 58.3.
Speaker 2Not chill filtered Nose or I pale gold. Yeah, great, I think I said that. Maritime notes, pete smoke, malt, vanilla, honey, dried fruit, waxy lemon peel and some minerality. Mmm, palak, honey, smoke, waxy, vanilla, candy malt, dry orchard fruit, malt, basket of it, touch of fresh, fresh pastries and slight baking spice and minerality. We are so good at this. It's a dish honey, fruit, malt, citrus and smoke. Well balanced, full-bodied, fully to oily, feel, sweet, waxy smoke is what it boils down to. So signature vintage.
Speaker 3I have a history on the name.
Speaker 2Should I dive into that? Do we all know? Sure, we've been a bonglers.
Speaker 6Yeah, kind of badass they we've got some navy blue in here, wow.
Speaker 2And took over operations there. 140 140. The chill filtering is widely used to control cloudiness, removing the majority of the fats and oils found naturally in the malt. They didn't do that.
Speaker 4That's why most of them are not chill filter and it's 58% or whatever it is.
Speaker 7Yeah, that's just like if you put ice in in a chill filtered.
Speaker 4If you put ice in it'll stay clear. Non chill filtered. If you put ice in it'll get cloudy and the industry types Originally thought oh, that's bad, that makes our scotch look Cheap. It won't sell if it's cloudy. We want it to be clear. So they started chill filtering it so it wouldn't cloud up.
Speaker 2Oh, there's in one category that we didn't hit, so I gotta be honest.
Speaker 5I know that it's a 58.6 or 58.3 Like. I would honestly give it a like two points high, like two Cuz, like that was.
Speaker 6Yeah, that's Narlene. My mouth told me that it wasn't super high a bv, but my stomach was like no.
Speaker 1Alex, that was amazing, at least.
Speaker 8So, except for Andrew and Dave, and give it a second chance.
Speaker 1No that was a good scotch. That was a good time. Well done, alex.
Speaker 4Thanks Alex, thanks Thanks dude. Good work, all the flavors.
Speaker 5Yeah, cheers boys alrighty, I drink to the health of another and the other I drink to. Is he in the hopes that he drinks to another and the other he drinks to is me?
Speaker 2So stuck on the bananas.
Speaker 1I didn't get bananas, the Laffy taffy bananas, the real bananas.
Speaker 5Yeah the way they're supposed.