Wee Drams: The Macallan Harmony Collection "Intense Arabica Edition"

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Ever wondered how Ethiopian Arabica beans would taste in a whisky? Well, here's your chance to find out (through us talking about it...we don't have the technology for you to taste through the screen, YET).

Pam and Chel try out this offering from The Macallan Harmony Edition, a whisky series all about the  "distinctive and innovative packaging that seeks to bring new life to organic by-products which have ended their usual course. ​It fuses innovative techniques with materials from the natural world at the end of their life to see them reborn with a renewed purpose."

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, hey, how you doing.
You got time for the wee dram.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to dram, fine wee dram's fast tasting notes
for when you just want to knowwhat it tastes like.
Today we taste the McCallanHarmony Collection, intense
Arabica version.
Hi Chelsea, hi Pam, do you knowwho?
Yeah, we're in the same roomtoday.
I know, I'm sorry, I'm staringat your face, your eyeballs.
It's great stuff.
Do you want to know what we'redrinking?

(00:27):
I do Tell me so today.
You know what?
I don't think we've ever talkedabout McCallan before in our
podcast.
I don't think, really truly.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Not, really no.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I mean, they get enough attention.
They don't really need ourfocus to be successful.
Mccallan, I think you're goingto be okay.
They're doing alright, yeah,but today we're doing something
very, very special.
It's a limited series release.
It's the.
So the McCallan, the HarmonyCollection, which I guess the
Harmony Collection is.
They're kind of drawinginspiration from their

(00:58):
deep-rooted connection to thenatural world.
Very zen L'offre, yeah, andeach release in the collection
unveils distinctive packagingthat incorporates organic
byproducts and gives them newlife.
So they have a one of the.
They have a chocolate kind ofinspired release and we are
trying the Intense Arabicarelease.
Arabica, Arabica.

(01:19):
Yes, we did Arabica.
Yes, we did need to helppronouncing that because I was
scared.
Where's the emphasis on what'ssyllable?
Well, we know now, Thanks toGoogle.
Yeah, so this sensoryexperience is going to be yeah,
this is, this is part of the.

(01:40):
Yeah, the coffee, their coffee,I guess.
Additions.
Nice, Are you a coffee fan?

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yes, very much.
How about you?
I am now that I've lived inCanada for 10 years, so I only
liked tea before, but now I lovecoffee.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I know, and I still haven't gotten into tea.
So maybe when I move toScotland one day I'll be into
tea.
Yeah, maybe.
Yeah, but coffee's great, it'sa fresh blend and you give me
the all the espresso.
What do you like?
You like?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Oh, no, I'll.
No, I'm not ready for anespresso.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
You want your sugar.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
And yeah, I do, I like a double, double you like a
double double.
Oh, you're more Canadian than Iam I only started ordering that
because they didn't understandme at the drive-throughs.
So at least when I said double,double, then you got a task in
the car, because I was justlooking at the most obvious
thing.
And now I'm addicted because ofthe sugar.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, it's basically all sugar Tim Horns is, but I
don't know if they use Arabicabeans.
But let me just tell you onemore thing about so.
This was also 44% ABV.
It's inspired by the EthiopianArabica beans, so if you're
based, you know it's thebirthplace of coffee, as it was

(02:50):
the first bean species to becultivated.
I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
I didn't know that.
Wow, did you just have thatinformation, or what?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I was waiting to tell you that information.
It's waiting for someone to doa coffee edition of whiskey,
right.
So we are going to give it atry and I'll tell you right now.
I've had a whiff of it with myold truffle finder and it
already has, like it alreadykind of smells like coffee.
It smells incredible, yeah.
So let's do the Tinf, tinf.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Sounds like a fart, call our nose A vapor.
I forgot.
Now what's the case.
Color, color, leave me throughit.
Aroma, or Call it Call it.
It's been a while.
I know.
You know we're gone, that'sokay.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
It isn't exactly something the easiest thing to
remember.
Color, let's see.
Is it just me, or does it seemkind of like brownish, almost
coffee?

Speaker 1 (03:56):
like.
Maybe, no, I don't know.
I think it's more like an amber.
It's pretty dark.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think it's pretty dark, dark amber, dark amber,
yeah, dark amber.
Um, that's like I feel like agirl named Amber who's like
really tapped into her evil side.
Oh, she's living her dark Amberera.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
I feel like that's like a teen movie character, or
Amber, yeah, only on Nickelodeon.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
No, okay, no, that's just.
That's a nice smiling nose.
It's like it's tiramisu, gottiramisu.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
It's tiramisu.
I got chocolate.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
I definitely.
I like I'm not just saying thisbecause it's in the name, but I
feel I taste, I can smell thecoffee.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, no, it does have.
It does have coffee notes.
I don't know the beans thatwell.
It doesn't smell like a doubledouble.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
But it doesn't smell like a double double.
Thank God for that.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Thank God.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Okay, let's have a little.
Let's see.
Let's see.
This tastes as good as itsmells, shall we?

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh, coffee, it's coffee, it's coffee.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
What that's okay, well, we, I need another set.
It's very.
I mean it has a great, but yeah, it does taste like it does
have a coffee flavor, for sure.
It's very.
It's not super complex thoughup in that way, no, it's not
complex, but it like it has the.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
It has the.
How do you explain that?
Like the when you first drink acoffee and it's got that like a
better betterness along withthat.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, yeah, it does have that, but it's definitely a
little bit.
The flavor is a bit thin, butthe flavor that is there is
definitely, I think, hasdefinitely a coffee vibe.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, it finishes coffee all over, yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, that's interesting, that's a really
interesting experience.
I love it.
I actually really like that.
It's very, yeah, I like I.
I mean, I love new flavorexperiences.
So, thank you McKellen, 100%.
And what about?
So the finish?

Speaker 1 (06:05):
It's.
It's quite a medium finish, Ithink, but it's all coffee.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, it's definitely .
It's got a little bit.
It's a little bit.
It's a little bit burny and thetepid or tongue, yeah yeah, I'm
really not going to say thatAgain.
Did you feel the burn?
Anyways, yeah, it's, itdefinitely tastes a little young
and a little thin, but at thesame time I don't know what this

(06:32):
but the flavor does enough thatit doesn't really matter.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Like, I think it's got a really nice flavor.
I think the consistency of ityeah, okay it's it's.
It's thinner than the, thansome, but I enjoyed that.
Yeah, what do you think?
Hangover rating?

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Well, I think I would have a pretty big blackout with
this one.
I think so too, because I woulddrink, because it's very easy
to drink.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
It's easy.
It is super easy yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
So I would not be remembering.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
the bottle will be empty, I think so, yeah, I think
I would just have an 8 view.
Hear that and turn this Coupleof blackouts.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
That's a win.
That's a win.
I mean well done, mckellen.
You've done it again.
You're going to make it,mckellen.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
We were never worried .

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah Is that it Is, that it so you want more
weedrams.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
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