July 19, 2023 • 47 mins
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 1 (00:01):
This is Mystery Scotch tasting with Gentlemen of
the World.
We are a club that getstogether and we try Scotch blind
With us tonight.
I am Justin, I am Dave, alex,evan.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Nathan.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Andrew Dave Vern.
And as we do every month, westart by picking up our glasses
and analyzing the color of theScotch we're drinking.
So what do we see, guys, bylooking at our glasses?
Scotch Vrenchy, scotch.
Good start, this is light.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Yes, very, very light .
Yeah, watered down green tea,yeah, light golden, yeah, mm-hmm
.
Speaker 6 (00:47):
But if I was going just by color, this looks to me
more like an Irish whiskey.
Yeah, oh, that would be myfirst guess if I was just being
shown this and didn't know aScotch.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We call, you're saying it's Irish whiskey, it's
not Scotch.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
But it's like, or it's Macalmy, it's like what?
Pinot Grigio?
Yeah, mm, it's not evenChardonnay, it's not even that
golden.
I don't know I might goChardonnay.
Speaker 7 (01:12):
Well, 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 6 (01:21):
I like wine a lot, I love wine.
Do you guys both know winepretty well?
I was just curious.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I drink wine pretty well, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I think I actually may be going to a Riesling
tasting tomorrow night.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Whoa, I don't even feel like I know you anymore.
You said it.
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Well, so what else do we see?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Or is that all we see ?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
We just see Pinot.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Grigio, and that is what we're drinking, and.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I'm seeing some legs in the glass.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, I'm seeing sticky legs Sticky legs, sticky
legs, sticky legs.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I pulled up the tasting notes and everything
with it, but I did not read them.
So, whatever I do saywholeheartedly, is this claimer
Good for you, alex.
Good for you Alex.
Speaker 7 (02:04):
Thank you.
Good job, nice, I don't loveyou, but thank you Whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Andrew is really taking his legs for a walk.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, it's like really cloudy.
You got cloudy.
Yeah, it's like gray and cloudy.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Dirty, dirty glass.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Who washed these glasses?
Speaker 7 (02:29):
I mean.
The legs, though, are notable.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I'm kind of expecting this to be maybe a little on
the oily kind of waxy mouth feel.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
It looks like a Christmas tree ornament there we
go Christmas tree Legs arerunning.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Can I smell it?
Yeah, let's smell this puppy.
We're going to smell it.
Smells nice.
Oh, I like it.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Can we rate it, can we?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
rate it, it makes on the smell alone.
It does smell really good itsmells yeah, and familiar.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yeah, it does smell familiar.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Yeah, like the sticky kind of smoky peaty, but not
overly.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Snicky, snicky bogey beady, snicky poody peaty.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Okay, so there's a note we've thrown out a few
times, but do it Andrew.
Maybe it's me so that's why itfeels familiar.
But this, to me, is very earlymorning on the beach.
Campfires have beenextinguished, but you're still
getting the smell of them.
Yeah, that's sweet seaweeds.
Yeah, yeah, sweet seaweeds, alittle bit of like salty breeze.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Yeah, does it smell boozy to you guys Slightly?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
It's kind of a bit of a little prickle, yeah, hmm.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It's like a vanilla candy.
Like a creamy vanilla candyyeah.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's kind of a word prickle, and that sparked
prickly pear in my head and now,I don't know why but?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I am smelling pear.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, good inception job.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I guess I'm going to say what is that?
What is that Orchard?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
fruit.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Hmm.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
General orchard fruit .
Yeah, actually, general orchardfruits, all of them.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
They're a small basket full of orchard fruits.
Yeah, they're at their prime.
Harry and David gift basket.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Or the things that are in the basket, just the
basket.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
Banana Laffy, taffy, that's good.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I was kind of like an artificial but actual, real
banana.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
I get like a peel, but I get, I get the laughing
taffy banana.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
It's been a while since I've had a laughing taffy
Does that.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I haven't even been able to feel
Speaker 7 (04:41):
like I'm on a banana roast.
No, I think that's makes itbetter.
That's a bonus.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Yeah, it's a little fun fact, so that artificial
banana flavor is actually basedon the real flavor of banana,
not the current flavor, fresh,the original, like it's actual,
what bananas should taste like.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
So you're smelling real banana yeah exactly so
bananas are not bananas.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Bananas are not bananas.
No, bananas are still bananas,but it's not the varietal that
used to be prominent in theUnited States.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Hmm, it's the way God intended bananas.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Is anybody?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
getting your mind.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Really ripe.
Is it a honeydew melon?
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
It's like a super ripe More, more, more.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Like you're about to go bad almost, but if you don't
eat it this second?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
it's bad.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
You have one second to eat this, there it goes, yeah
, yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
But then I take in I get like a lot of like ocean
spray seaweed.
So there's really some peat inhere.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
There's a moss type smell to it and then rock candy
I definitely like rock candyRiver rock candy For garage.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
you'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 withsome sauce, or because it it's
got like this kind ofcaramelized yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, there's that lime mineral note there too.
Yeah, way in the background.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Never had a scotch.
When you guys are talking,we're all talking and every time
I smell it and somebody sayssomething, I smell that Like it
is so dynamic and maybe it's amagic scotch, I feel pheasant
with flavor.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
On the nose.
We haven't even tasted it.
No, no, are we allowed to?
No, we can't.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
We're not allowed to taste it.
That's episode two next month.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
This, whatever it is, reminds me a lot of this.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Oh, the fin login Really.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Yeah, I'm getting a lot of the fin login notes, the
just standard eye-lay kind ofthing.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Maybe Alex is pulling like a mega trickery move, and
so it is.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
I don't think anybody's tasted that.
I'm just swirling it, and everytime I go back in.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I'm getting like menthol, eucalyptus, like that
very cool heat Crap.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Yeah, I'll give it to you.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I definitely see the menthol you can kind of see, rub
on here It'll smell likechestnut grape over up.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Yeah, it's almost that it does smell oily, it
smells like it's going to stick.
It does as.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Vix does yeah, yeah, that's.
I think mostly what it does, isthis mostly Vix?
Speaker 7 (07:29):
Hedged in.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Vix barrels Each ring is going to look more like a
small bit I get on the nose.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Have you guys tried any yet?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
No, have you.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Did you try it, I did .
I did Whoa All right, oh, we'retrying things.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Here we go, we're allowed to.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I'm enjoying the smell of it so much.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Wow, there's that mineral 100%.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Wow, it's a lot more aggressive, the minerals that
was there.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah there's some heat.
That's got a lot more punch toit than I thought.
Oh my gosh, my first note waschili powder Like immediately on
the tongue it was chili powder.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Does it taste?
Feel like it has like a slightdelay for you guys?
Yeah, it felt like I tasted itand it was very mild and then,
like it, like my palate got likebody slammed I had one second
after yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
I had an initial flavor and then immediately like
disappeared and it becamesomething else.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Like the initial flavor I got.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Actually was like a go back to what Evan was talking
about earlier, before westarted recording, was the milk
punch.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
Oh yeah, like the body.
Yeah, it's something like thickand sweet, but then that
sweetness like disappearsinstantly.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
This 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 tomeet you, and like cut cuddles
and clothes, and then just bodyslams.
And then, like ready to go, andthen somehow they make love.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
And then it's like, yeah, so for me it's like you
know, classic Pete, you knowmedicinal smoky flavor, and then
it finishes like kind ofsurprisingly bitter, especially
for, like, the nose being sosweet, so kind of like candy,
sweet, and then just finishesbitter.
It's really interesting.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
I don't think I've ever had a scotch at finishes
like this.
Yeah, and then it finishes likenot IPA flavors, but the same
feeling of when you have areally bitter IPA.
You know that's really.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Yeah, there's like some great.
I repeat, all the aftertaste,exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
So I was going to say people who like, don't like
cilantro.
It's that taste which maybeleans towards a grapefruit, it's
like that bitterness, so be.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Yeah, so be.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Did you put?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
malort in this no.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I think that goes back just to the mineral stuff.
Probably yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah.
So it's like a differentmineral, different sort of on a
different vibe.
I get a lot of like spice andpepper, but it doesn't so heat.
I get a lot of heat.
I still am getting chili powdersecond on my second sip, but
it's not to me.
It's not like an alcohol Like.
This is 60%, it's more of aspice heat.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
If that makes sense.
I mean you brought up the chilipeppers early.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You know, that was the first thing and I'm still
getting it.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
The stomach is telling me that it's 50%, but my
mouth is like you're fine, butthen the catclaw is kind of a
fire.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
It's totally comfortable Like on the palette
though.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
It's really surprising.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah, it's savory.
I'm very savory.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
I'm getting like salted meats and stuff at the
end.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Say more about that, vern.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
The meats are salted, well salted, it's going to
sound kind of weird, but it'slike it's almost like a gusher.
Like, the flavor explodes inyour mouth.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Like a gentlemen's gusher.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
So I spent a significant amount of time
looking at these bottles yes, Idid not look into the bottles by
any means.
It was strictly on what thebottle looked like.
I don't know.
Leave it at that.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Oh we went faster than before.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
It doesn't look like a giant bag of gushers.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Whoever has the coolest label wins.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Did you just buy a ton of gushers and squeeze all
the juices out to make a scotchbottle?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
No, that's not what I'm talking about.
It's the experience, the ideaof gushers, come on.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I think I know you're not talking about that, but I
think I am.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Open the gusher packs and pick one big gusher ball.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
No, you make me think of something.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
So you compounded all of them into one pack.
Three or four packs, three orfour packs.
You were allowed to have morethan one pack.
Yeah yeah bro, yeah Rich, overhere I had to have a birthday to
get a pack of gushers.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Come 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 8 (12:14):
So do you just like compact it into a ball and then?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
eat it like an apple.
Probably don't let your skin ifyou're going to see you doing
it.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah, it's very shameful.
I'm sure Sounds fun.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah, sounds like something I'll do in my car
behind the 7-Eleven bottle ofmalort.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
They're just gushers.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
They're just gushers.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But are you putting them together in?
Speaker 6 (12:36):
a ball.
I was thinking about it.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Anymore Another gush of all guys.
So third arrest this week.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I keep coming back to that grapefruit, though it
reminds me of like a candiedgrapefruit ride.
I don't know if you've ever hadthat, that kind of gummy rind,
those candied grapefruit rindswhere you get that sweet, but
there's just that bitterness atthe end.
It almost like you taste, likeyou tested a 9 volt.
You're just kind of gettingthat at the end.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
So I'm getting like on the palate kind of the briny
oyster liquor, the oyster thebriny stuff, and then I don't
know if this is along the linesof the bitterness that you guys
are talking about, but thefinish for me is almost like ash
.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Yeah, I was going to say ash.
I think you're right.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
And I think we're both right With ash Oysters to
ash.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
For me it tastes like a Dominican, like Maduro cigar.
Not the taste of the smoke, butthe actual taste when you're
holding the cigar in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
It's very referential Because that has its own taste
right.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
So that kind of informs the palate of what the
smoke's going to taste like, butspecifically like a Dominican
cigar.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, my mouth is so dry.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
And it's very dry.
I mean, I know about your mouth, but my mouth is dry yeah,
should we touch mouths no.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
I think we might need to touch mouths.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Touching mouths.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I feel like I'm dehydrated.
So that's Vern's mouth.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
But I think you're right.
This is one of the driest, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I am thirsty for water, jesus.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It could be brought up wine earlier, but it's odd to
think of the like a tannin orlike that tannic feel that you
get from that really dry redthat kind of dries your mouth
out Like a black tea, somethingthat really dries your mouth out
.
It's kind of unusual to have ascotch that one hits your palate
and kind of explodes withsweetness and flavor to
associate with kind of moisturein the mouth Moist.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Moist, moist, moist mouth.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
But to have this kind of dryer mouth out is.
It's an interesting.
That kind of like after effecton the palate is unusual.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
More than num or more than dry.
I'm getting like numbing.
Yeah, it's like, it's like amouth, it's like a mouth.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
But it doesn't taste like a, it's like a mint fall
note yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
So the interesting thing is, I added like a cap
full of water.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
He did it.
You added water without tellinganybody, wow.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
You sneaky, wow you guys are like sneaky, you know
what I'm saying, yeah, sneakingin a little cap full of water
here and there, and it reallyactually accentuates the
bitterness.
So if that's like the kind offlavor note that you enjoy, like
I got a lot more of thegrapefruit peel, a lot more of
that like kind of like notpuckering, but like kind of like
(15:46):
bitterness.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
I'm intrigued yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
It's worth a try.
I personally don't like it, butthat's that's a personal
preference.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I mean, you put more lard in it.
You did put more lard in it,really Sorry, that's what I
meant.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
A cap full of lard is what I.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Sweetness 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 andthere's like a lot of other
flavors, because usuallyanytime- I have any scotch or
like any type of like drinkthat's got some sweetness to it.
It's overly sweet.
This one feels kind of in thepocket, no, where it's not
(16:26):
overpowering yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Did 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 ofthat here too.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Totally, that's that's not far off, because the
ham is smoked and you get thatkind of there's that smoked meat
, yeah To it, but it's got thatsweet glaze on it.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You figured it out.
Yeah, that's what it is.
Yeah, that's what it is.
It's what it is, yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
It's what it is, yeah .
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It's what it is.
It's what it is.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Yeah, it's what it is .
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I get it just right on the tip of my tongue, right
when I get it Tippy sweetness,just the tippy sweetness.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Just the tip of sweetness.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
The tip of sweetness is a great novel.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Many award winning.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
So I added some water to it, like as well.
And you're right, it is likebringing out more of the
bitterness, like more of thelike.
Honestly, it's weird.
It kind of brings a malortpencil shade it looks like is it
super appealing for me.
I was hoping for it to open upmore and might be find more of
(17:43):
the sweetness.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
To 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 mypalate might be ruined it's
getting a little more sweet, alittle more smoky.
So I don't know, I'm kind of.
I'm actually digging it morenow.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I haven't added water , but I do get some of the
pencil shavings.
Yeah, it's there.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
It's not pencil shavings, it's juniper.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Nature's pencil shavings Juniper beers.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Nature's gushers.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
It's true.
It is true.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
David, will you pass me the water?
You're going to do it.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
I mean it just burns.
I don't think I'll want to justget it.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
All the reviews that I've heard about adding water is
are negative.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
Yeah, but that's burn over there.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Um, do we have anything else to say about this
Gosh?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
the roof of my mouth feels like somebody took like a
fine sandpaper to it.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I feel like you had either fruit loops or a bonny
sandwich.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Yeah, captain Crouch, captain Crouch, captain Crouch,
dude dagger bread.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
They're almost always dagger bread.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah.
Maybe, like a four zero steelwool Just politely, just
politely, just politely Justremoved some.
Yeah, it's a little rough, yeah, exploited.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
It's a little numb.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
It's a little numb, but it's not roughed up.
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Like, like, just like Captain Crunch does, it's not
like.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I didn't just eat a bowl of Captain Crunch, I just
did like a numbing, it was anumbing cream.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
This 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 miniYou'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 7 (19:47):
The little ghosteens.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
But now, I'm getting that brownish glue that has,
like, the rubber tip at an angleand you like angle the bottle.
You know what I'm talking aboutWood glue.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Oh that's something that's super high.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
It's not wood glue, taipant, maybe, I don't know.
It's got the orange likesilicone rubber.
Yeah, taipant, yeah.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
And then the little, thing, the little thing Kind of
a.
Thing.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Middle school like back in the day.
Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Yeah, I think they took that off the market Like
that's like the most touching.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Yeah, when Lawn Darts got taken off.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I think it was.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
March too.
I remember it was March.
Yeah, those three-wheelermotorcycles got to go too, yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Well, this guy's brain back memories Three-wheel
motorcycles Maybe.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
Hmm.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Who was our last listener?
Alexander Road, okay, so ifAlexander Road was a car,
driving a vehicle.
What vehicle would AlexanderRoad be driving?
Hmm?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Hmm, hmm, that's interesting because his last
name is Road.
Yep, that helps, so we can do astudy.
We'd definitely be driving acar.
Yeah, I think he would besinging now.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Not an off-road vehicle.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
Okay, fair enough.
I feel like this has got someoff-road capabilities.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah, definitely His last name is Road, but there is
a dirt road, but you could haveroad off-road.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
This is like a highway in the morning driving
down to the beach.
No.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
No, that's on your three-wheel track with a
backpack full of mondo.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Okay, fuck me, this is rugged, this is.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
I got yours under your radar, got your mow.
Are we trying to say that this?
Speaker 7 (21:32):
is a different kind of enjoyable.
It's like when you get tocamping or you're on your way to
go camping I don't know howmany you camp Like.
You get there and then you'reon the road.
You know like putting in thebig, like three hour stretch,
and then right when you hit thedirt and you crack the beer and
you're off-road.
You're off-road freshly fromthe road.
(21:55):
Does that make sense?
Mm-hmm, somebody else have thisexperience?
Yeah, you've transitioned fromlike I am commuting to like I am
now recreationally driving.
Yeah, and that's when you cancrack that beer, Mm-hmm, and the
road is rough and you're kindof you don't know where you're
going exactly.
You're kind of following maybesome GPS coordinates or whatever
(22:18):
.
You're going down this curvyroad.
The sun is setting, you're kindof rushing to get there, but
you're, you just got on vacationafter a long drive.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
And all that kind of car is about Alexander's driving
this car.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
And that has nothing to do with the.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Scotch that we're driving.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
What the car is, what this does everything to do with
the Scotch yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
This Scotch is like right when you go off-road.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
You lost me right when we went off-road.
I guess we should be talkingabout what vehicle it is.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Yes, no, Verna, I'm kind of there with you.
Thank you, this is a smart-ass.
I mean, this is your car thatyou love, and I don't have a
specific car in mind.
It's a car that you love.
But, little Genki, you knowyou're getting to this.
You're going to the campingsite.
You're not quite sure.
Is it going to make it, is itnot?
Is it going to make it home?
(23:10):
Not quite sure.
But once you get there, it'slike fuck it, we'll deal with it
later.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, I think the seats are old cloth seats that
smell like vanilla too.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah but they're comfortable, they're real
comfortable.
Couple of tears, they're yourseats.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Stacey, there's a word for tears.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I'm going to go in a different direction now Okay,
we're going uphill.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
It's going to be kind of like my Bond girl type thing
, I feel like that's a lot ofyeah, I feel like you get.
You get in this car and you'relike oh, there's a nice little,
like pretty Porsche or somethinglike sitting there.
And then you get in the car andboom, you're in Transformers
four and the car all sudden likegets like these gigantic like
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wheels and transforms into athing and then like starts
running and you're like.
Whoa now like this car is like arobot and like I'm on the beach
and now I'm fighting likedemons and shit, we're on the
beach.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
So this is the Michael Bay of the Sky, yeah.
You see her going in adifferent direction.
Yeah, Transformers four.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So that's the vehicle .
Okay, the vehicle is atransformer, but you see it and
it's like a Porsche and you'relike, oh, you have no idea that
you're about to step into arobot that's going to like get
up and have like a sword andlike a shotgun in one hand.
It does just like start likefighting bitches.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Well, high metal, mineral content, I mean a robot
would, would taste like a robot.
I think this would havesomething like a robot.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
I think this is like a old, like 60s era, like
military Jeep yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Just 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 8 (24:56):
It's not.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Don't believe in them .
Speaker 8 (24:58):
It's not going to be appealing for everybody, but
like it's going to be superappealing for certain people,
yeah.
Because like this is enjoyablebut like I think this is more of
an acquired taste, scotch forpeople that have been drinking
scotch than somebody that's newto scotch, kind of thing.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
I think that's bang on.
I think that's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Now that I understand the call of the question, I'm
going to agree with Dave.
I was going to say this remindsme of like a 60s kind of
sleeper muscle car, where you'regetting some of the exhaust in
the cab with you.
It's loud, it's fast, it'sstrong.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
It rattles a bit.
It rattles a bit.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
The seats have Mexican blanket.
It's a Bench C with Mexicanblankets.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yeah, american you got a sort of board in the back.
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And then Harrison Ford's driving.
Okay, yeah, american graffiti.
Yeah, so it's the aluminum foil.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
No, I don't think it has a slick paint job Actually
Okay.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
It's a little one that is coming it does.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Did it have?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Camaro Yellow Camaro no he drove like a truck.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
He 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 spokein the movie, I think.
I've seen it.
He would just pull up to otherlike cars and just like do the
old, the look, the old nod, andthen they would race and he'd
beat them.
This got you that nod.
(26:28):
Now we're talking.
Yeah, hold on.
So the vehicle that came tomind.
Oh yeah, that's good.
That's the Harrison Ford.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
The vehicle that came to mind to me would be like a
62 series Land Cruiser, so itwould be Lake.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
East.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Vernon and I both had one at the same time, the same
one.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
The same one.
No, we had different ones, theyjust had the vehicle.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
I was thinking after soccer I had a white one.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
He had a blue one about the same time and they
didn't perform that well, butthey're fucking rad.
Yeah, Great vehicles butgutless 148 horsepower.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
It's all you need to get the heaviest vehicle ever.
But yeah, don't go up amountain.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Yeah, but it's a quirky, fun rig and reminds me
of this Scotch.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Well does anybody have like a guess, yeah, of what
we're drinking here.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Region year.
I like BV yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
I'm going to highlight.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
I think, that I like 47% burclotic.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Wow, I love 46%.
I don't know, okay, whichdistillery.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So 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 theclub vibe.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
I'm going to go hard 50.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Oh, dave yeah that's hard.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Does anybody?
Speaker 8 (28:10):
have year guesses Year.
Yeah, I'm curious because Ihave no clue.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
You have a year.
I have no clue.
That's the one that.
I think I never get.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I can never get hard.
I'd say 12ish.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Yeah, I'm going 12.
These days it's different.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
Based on the color.
Yeah, I think it's either likea 4 or a 12.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Yeah, first fill or refill ex-burban barrel.
Not long yeah, so I would saylike eight years, Maybe six.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
Yeah, yeah, like a little six Like a gnarly mash
bill, and then first fillBurbans.
Yeah, distillery I already said, it's perclotic.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
A.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
End of show, that's a wrap.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Feel like an indelible, just a contrarian.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
I was about to say it's like a luffa.
It could be a year Like fancybarrels.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Remember even that it's sort of like art banks are
great, I was going to say artbanks.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I liked the game of the Indians.
It's like a weebee.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
It's like a weebee, but not enough can.
That's right?
Not enough pit.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Now I really want to see the bottle.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
I'm gonna try yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
So 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 girlbecause I liked James Bond.
I liked that it was complex onthe nose.
(29:50):
We had a lot to talk about.
I feel like there's a lot morefruits.
It was a lot smoother of a ridewhen we first started off, which
is awesome, and then all of asudden 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.
(30:11):
It was almost like not quitetwo scotches for the price of
one.
If you add water and it changessomething drastic, that's
really good.
Then you get the.
Then you get the two fur, fromme at least, but I loved that.
I don't know it was.
It was a lady on the street buta freak in the bed.
(30:36):
No, yeah, yeah.
When you smelt it you're likeoh, this is so nice, pear, there
was all kinds of like moresweeter, gentler kind of things
thrown out there.
And then you drink it andyou're like this is a really
awesome rough ride.
So I'm going to give it a ninefor me.
(30:57):
Whoa, I'm starting off the pod.
That's cool.
I'm already Fern, what do yougot?
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Sorry, I was Instagramming at the moment so I
didn't hear anything that yousaid.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I'm sure it was pretty.
It was just know that it wasfantastic.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
It was good.
Probably, if I gave anything,it was the best thing he's ever
said.
Probably.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
I'll have to listen to the podcast.
Yeah, two of you.
Yeah, this is hard because Idon't know when we didn't really
talk about when you would drinkthis.
I don't know we didn't talkabout seasons.
This might be a campfire scotch.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
I can't imagine.
Is it a cold weather scotch ora warm weather scotch?
I think it'd be Well I thinkit'd be.
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Either You're just going to be camping, it's
probably something you couldhave a cigar with.
It's got enough stuff going on.
Maybe it's too much going on ifyou have a cigar, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Can I lay a scene?
Speaker 7 (31:59):
It's a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Yeah, 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 7 (32:09):
It's a windy scotch, it's a sailing scotch.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, I love that Sun goes down, it's cool.
Yeah, are we at altitude.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Would you associate this with altitude?
Speaker 7 (32:19):
But nothing crazy, nothing crazy.
You're at 4K and you've got 20knots coming over Coming down
your back the cruise yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
You have this 20 knots coming in your back,
coming in from the east.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
Yeah, I know it's significant, but you need
something that is going to shakethings up.
You need a scotch that's goingto redirect your attention from
just like the I don't know thesimple novelty things of camping
and be like hey, this is alittle bit bigger and you've got
(32:54):
to focus on it a bit more.
I mean, I guess it takes yourfocus.
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 anumber that we say like I would
(33:16):
drink it again?
Is that eight or is it?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
nine.
That's whatever you want it tobe.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
For me personally.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I, one of my.
One of the biggest things thatI feel like is can I, would I
buy this and bring it at home?
And for me, this got you, Iwould bring it at home, which is
why I give it a nine.
So for me that's kind of likeif you, if I, want this at home,
you're automatically an eightand above, but that's just me.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
I 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 meand but I'm definitely by
curious.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Okay, very good.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
For me.
I'm at an eight two.
I really liked it.
I don't gravitate towards likesweeter scotches, but this one
had so many fun savory and wildnotes that I even though it was
like on the sweeter end, on thefront end I really dug the wild
ride.
So that brings me to an eighttwo Nice.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Andrew.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
I 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 youwent on?
No, I didn't like it less, butI didn't like it more.
(34:48):
And usually I feel like withtime, I like a scotch more.
If I'm gonna, you know, be upin the eights and the nines
Nothing objectionable for me Iwould definitely put this in in
the camping scotches, I think.
As you guys were talking aboutit, I think this might be a
(35:09):
desert scotch because it's dryand hot, I feel like this is
like I want this in Joshua Tree.
Sun 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 ofthat sort, but yeah.
(35:34):
I enjoyed it.
I don't know I might buy it.
I really want to know what itis.
Yeah, I can't wait.
This is a distinct point.
I think curiosity might be myoverwhelming response to it
right now.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Nathan.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yeah, I think I'm gonna build on the desert theme
here.
Build, baby.
I think that Andrew nailed it.
It feels like a desert scotchbecause it is a little dry and a
little hot, and I'm gonna buildoff of Vern's comment too and
call this a Santa Anna windscotch.
There we go.
It's a little chaotic, there'sa little danger, a little
(36:18):
uneasiness, a little paranoia, alittle paranoia.
As a tasting note that's five,even when you were talking about
the vehicles pulling off theroad.
I'm thinking Salton Sea, yeah,the Salton Sea scotch.
(36:41):
I'm heading off the main road.
I'm heading towards or awayfrom Slab City, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Wow, it doesn't matter, I'm getting lost, it's
poetry, it's chaos.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
I think part of that is that the nose and the taste
had so much distinction, likeJustin alluded to with his
Transformers reference.
It was.
It was a Transformer On thenose, it was stone fruits, it
was summer wheat colors, it waslegs for days and the second it
(37:16):
hit my palate.
It was a burst of gushing fruitand then it immediately turned
bitter and those grapefruitnotes just came out and just dry
.
Chaotic desert, santa Annawinds yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Most of the guys at this table are hard right now.
Continue, continue.
Greatest scotch ever.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Well, I think that's my dismount, so I'm going to
give this an eight.
I'm going to give this an eight.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
Wow, wow, I know poetry and chaos and only an
eight and paranoia.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
But I'm having a hard time reading this, because this
is your paranoid, because I'm alittle 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 Ireach for because I've had a
(38:21):
hard day and now I want to relax.
This is I'm ready to fuckingkill someone.
Speaker 7 (38:28):
Or you just did.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
So 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 wouldbring this home.
I don't know that I can bringit 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 2 (38:51):
Chase us with a monster.
Oh yes, there's a monsterinvolved.
Speaker 8 (38:59):
We're talking about the energy drink or like stop
monster man.
It's hard to follow that up.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
That was really well said.
Just say a number and we'll I'mgoing 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 thisbank, bank.
(39:34):
I don't want to, you know Idon't need to go back there all
the time.
But you know, I want to keepthis one in my back pocket and
ready to go when I want it orwhen I need it.
You know, there's a little outthere, a little harsh, a little
bitter, but now that my cup isempty I'm like God.
I could use a little bit moreof that, you know you miss it
and I don't know.
(39:56):
It kind of had all the rightnotes for me.
You know it was if I were togive it a criticism.
It was a little bit too bitter,but that's probably what makes
it, you know, makes me want alittle bit more.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
But so eight point five Hmm, alex, 9.25 one of the
best.
Speaker 8 (40:14):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
That's all you want to say hey man, I know
everything about the spawn.
Speaker 8 (40:25):
I'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 therewere things that I wish it had
like.
I wish like the sweeter notesthat I had at the beginning,
(40:47):
like Lasted a little bit longer.
I wish it tasted less light,less bitter.
It's good and I'm very muchlooking forward to trying it
again and giving it a secondshot, but on first, first glance
for me, I'm in just 7.5.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Hmm, okay, give very, we're gonna be talking about
you.
Speaker 7 (41:15):
That seems fair okay.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
For how I think that's a great score for this.
Speaker 7 (41:21):
Yeah, and scary the Scotch oh.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
Dave and I rated it lowest and I think both of us
would, hands down, give itanother go.
Speaker 7 (41:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
I mean yeah, it was.
It was really fun.
It was really intriguing.
It's just like I was I waswaiting for something else.
Speaker 8 (41:37):
I feel like it's never kick another tasting no or
yeah, I mean to be honest, Ithink for me it was not what I
was expecting Alex to bring tothe table, because the last few
bottles.
Well the last year likepancakes and like breakfast.
Speaker 6 (42:01):
Independent.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
Magnifico to expect a zero from the art department?
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Oh, it's a signature and I knew that I was gonna do
this.
It's a color.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Drop what I dropped on it.
I Was taking a big risk and I'mglad I took the risk.
It was a gamble Signature andit's the unfilled filtered
collection, meaning that when itgets colder it gets smokier,
(42:39):
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 Iam so proud of us, all of us,
because there is not one thingthat we missed.
We hit it all first off.
(43:02):
So it's in a hogshead cask.
So ex bourbon barrels with thenew tops, right, it's 56 or 58%,
or the bottle says 58.3.
Not chill filtered Nose or Ipale gold.
(43:27):
Yeah, great, I think I saidthat.
Maritime notes, pete smoke,malt, vanilla, honey, dried
fruit, waxy lemon peel and someminerality.
Mmm, palak, honey, smoke, waxy,vanilla, candy malt, dry
orchard fruit, malt, basket ofit, touch of fresh, fresh
(43:51):
pastries and slight baking spiceand 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 3 (44:12):
I have a history on the name.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Should I dive into that?
Do we all know?
Sure, we've been a bonglers.
Speaker 6 (44:18):
Yeah, kind of badass they we've got some navy blue in
here, wow.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
And took over operations there.
140 140.
The chill filtering is widelyused to control cloudiness,
removing the majority of thefats and oils found naturally in
the malt.
They didn't do that.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
That's why most of them are not chill filter and
it's 58% or whatever it is.
Speaker 7 (44:50):
Yeah, that's just like if you put ice in in a
chill filtered.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
If you put ice in it'll stay clear.
Non chill filtered.
If you put ice in it'll getcloudy and the industry types
Originally thought oh, that'sbad, that makes our scotch look
Cheap.
It won't sell if it's cloudy.
We want it to be clear.
So they started chill filteringit so it wouldn't cloud up.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Oh, there's in one category that we didn't hit, so
I gotta be honest.
Speaker 5 (45:23):
I know that it's a 58.6 or 58.3 Like.
I would honestly give it a liketwo points high, like two Cuz,
like that was.
Speaker 6 (45:39):
Yeah, that's Narlene.
My mouth told me that it wasn'tsuper high a bv, but my stomach
was like no.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Alex, that was amazing, at least.
Speaker 8 (45:59):
So, except for Andrew and Dave, and give it a second
chance.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
No that was a good scotch.
That was a good time.
Well done, alex.
Speaker 4 (46:13):
Thanks Alex, thanks Thanks dude.
Good work, all the flavors.
Speaker 5 (46:16):
Yeah, cheers boys alrighty, I drink to the health
of another and the other I drinkto.
Is he in the hopes that hedrinks to another and the other
he drinks to is me?
Speaker 2 (46:40):
So stuck on the bananas.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
I didn't get bananas, the Laffy taffy bananas, the
real bananas.
Speaker 5 (46:48):
Yeah the way they're supposed.
This is Mystery Scotch tasting with Gentlemen of
the World.
We are a club that getstogether and we try Scotch blind
With us tonight.
I am Justin, I am Dave, alex,evan.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Nathan.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Andrew Dave Vern.
And as we do every month, westart by picking up our glasses
and analyzing the color of theScotch we're drinking.
So what do we see, guys, bylooking at our glasses?
Scotch Vrenchy, scotch.
Good start, this is light.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Yes, very, very light .
Yeah, watered down green tea,yeah, light golden, yeah, mm-hmm
.
Speaker 6 (00:47):
But if I was going just by color, this looks to me
more like an Irish whiskey.
Yeah, oh, that would be myfirst guess if I was just being
shown this and didn't know aScotch.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We call, you're saying it's Irish whiskey, it's
not Scotch.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
But it's like, or it's Macalmy, it's like what?
Pinot Grigio?
Yeah, mm, it's not evenChardonnay, it's not even that
golden.
I don't know I might goChardonnay.
Speaker 7 (01:12):
Well, 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 6 (01:21):
I like wine a lot, I love wine.
Do you guys both know winepretty well?
I was just curious.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I drink wine pretty well, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I think I actually may be going to a Riesling
tasting tomorrow night.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Whoa, I don't even feel like I know you anymore.
You said it.
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Well, so what else do we see?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Or is that all we see ?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
We just see Pinot.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Grigio, and that is what we're drinking, and.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I'm seeing some legs in the glass.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, I'm seeing sticky legs Sticky legs, sticky
legs, sticky legs.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I pulled up the tasting notes and everything
with it, but I did not read them.
So, whatever I do saywholeheartedly, is this claimer
Good for you, alex.
Good for you Alex.
Speaker 7 (02:04):
Thank you.
Good job, nice, I don't loveyou, but thank you Whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Andrew is really taking his legs for a walk.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, it's like really cloudy.
You got cloudy.
Yeah, it's like gray and cloudy.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Dirty, dirty glass.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Who washed these glasses?
Speaker 7 (02:29):
I mean.
The legs, though, are notable.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I'm kind of expecting this to be maybe a little on
the oily kind of waxy mouth feel.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
It looks like a Christmas tree ornament there we
go Christmas tree Legs arerunning.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Can I smell it?
Yeah, let's smell this puppy.
We're going to smell it.
Smells nice.
Oh, I like it.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Can we rate it, can we?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
rate it, it makes on the smell alone.
It does smell really good itsmells yeah, and familiar.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yeah, it does smell familiar.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Yeah, like the sticky kind of smoky peaty, but not
overly.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Snicky, snicky bogey beady, snicky poody peaty.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Okay, so there's a note we've thrown out a few
times, but do it Andrew.
Maybe it's me so that's why itfeels familiar.
But this, to me, is very earlymorning on the beach.
Campfires have beenextinguished, but you're still
getting the smell of them.
Yeah, that's sweet seaweeds.
Yeah, yeah, sweet seaweeds, alittle bit of like salty breeze.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Yeah, does it smell boozy to you guys Slightly?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
It's kind of a bit of a little prickle, yeah, hmm.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It's like a vanilla candy.
Like a creamy vanilla candyyeah.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's kind of a word prickle, and that sparked
prickly pear in my head and now,I don't know why but?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I am smelling pear.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, good inception job.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I guess I'm going to say what is that?
What is that Orchard?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
fruit.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Hmm.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
General orchard fruit .
Yeah, actually, general orchardfruits, all of them.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
They're a small basket full of orchard fruits.
Yeah, they're at their prime.
Harry and David gift basket.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Or the things that are in the basket, just the
basket.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
Banana Laffy, taffy, that's good.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I was kind of like an artificial but actual, real
banana.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
I get like a peel, but I get, I get the laughing
taffy banana.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
It's been a while since I've had a laughing taffy
Does that.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I haven't even been able to feel
Speaker 7 (04:41):
like I'm on a banana roast.
No, I think that's makes itbetter.
That's a bonus.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Yeah, it's a little fun fact, so that artificial
banana flavor is actually basedon the real flavor of banana,
not the current flavor, fresh,the original, like it's actual,
what bananas should taste like.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
So you're smelling real banana yeah exactly so
bananas are not bananas.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Bananas are not bananas.
No, bananas are still bananas,but it's not the varietal that
used to be prominent in theUnited States.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Hmm, it's the way God intended bananas.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Is anybody?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
getting your mind.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Really ripe.
Is it a honeydew melon?
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
It's like a super ripe More, more, more.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Like you're about to go bad almost, but if you don't
eat it this second?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
it's bad.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
You have one second to eat this, there it goes, yeah
, yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
But then I take in I get like a lot of like ocean
spray seaweed.
So there's really some peat inhere.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
There's a moss type smell to it and then rock candy
I definitely like rock candyRiver rock candy For garage.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
you'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 withsome sauce, or because it it's
got like this kind ofcaramelized yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, there's that lime mineral note there too.
Yeah, way in the background.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Never had a scotch.
When you guys are talking,we're all talking and every time
I smell it and somebody sayssomething, I smell that Like it
is so dynamic and maybe it's amagic scotch, I feel pheasant
with flavor.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
On the nose.
We haven't even tasted it.
No, no, are we allowed to?
No, we can't.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
We're not allowed to taste it.
That's episode two next month.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
This, whatever it is, reminds me a lot of this.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Oh, the fin login Really.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Yeah, I'm getting a lot of the fin login notes, the
just standard eye-lay kind ofthing.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Maybe Alex is pulling like a mega trickery move, and
so it is.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
I don't think anybody's tasted that.
I'm just swirling it, and everytime I go back in.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I'm getting like menthol, eucalyptus, like that
very cool heat Crap.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Yeah, I'll give it to you.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I definitely see the menthol you can kind of see, rub
on here It'll smell likechestnut grape over up.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Yeah, it's almost that it does smell oily, it
smells like it's going to stick.
It does as.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Vix does yeah, yeah, that's.
I think mostly what it does, isthis mostly Vix?
Speaker 7 (07:29):
Hedged in.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Vix barrels Each ring is going to look more like a
small bit I get on the nose.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Have you guys tried any yet?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
No, have you.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Did you try it, I did .
I did Whoa All right, oh, we'retrying things.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Here we go, we're allowed to.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I'm enjoying the smell of it so much.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Wow, there's that mineral 100%.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Wow, it's a lot more aggressive, the minerals that
was there.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah there's some heat.
That's got a lot more punch toit than I thought.
Oh my gosh, my first note waschili powder Like immediately on
the tongue it was chili powder.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Does it taste?
Feel like it has like a slightdelay for you guys?
Yeah, it felt like I tasted itand it was very mild and then,
like it, like my palate got likebody slammed I had one second
after yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
I had an initial flavor and then immediately like
disappeared and it becamesomething else.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Like the initial flavor I got.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Actually was like a go back to what Evan was talking
about earlier, before westarted recording, was the milk
punch.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
Oh yeah, like the body.
Yeah, it's something like thickand sweet, but then that
sweetness like disappearsinstantly.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
This 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 tomeet you, and like cut cuddles
and clothes, and then just bodyslams.
And then, like ready to go, andthen somehow they make love.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
And then it's like, yeah, so for me it's like you
know, classic Pete, you knowmedicinal smoky flavor, and then
it finishes like kind ofsurprisingly bitter, especially
for, like, the nose being sosweet, so kind of like candy,
sweet, and then just finishesbitter.
It's really interesting.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
I don't think I've ever had a scotch at finishes
like this.
Yeah, and then it finishes likenot IPA flavors, but the same
feeling of when you have areally bitter IPA.
You know that's really.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Yeah, there's like some great.
I repeat, all the aftertaste,exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
So I was going to say people who like, don't like
cilantro.
It's that taste which maybeleans towards a grapefruit, it's
like that bitterness, so be.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Yeah, so be.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Did you put?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
malort in this no.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I think that goes back just to the mineral stuff.
Probably yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah.
So it's like a differentmineral, different sort of on a
different vibe.
I get a lot of like spice andpepper, but it doesn't so heat.
I get a lot of heat.
I still am getting chili powdersecond on my second sip, but
it's not to me.
It's not like an alcohol Like.
This is 60%, it's more of aspice heat.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
If that makes sense.
I mean you brought up the chilipeppers early.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You know, that was the first thing and I'm still
getting it.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
The stomach is telling me that it's 50%, but my
mouth is like you're fine, butthen the catclaw is kind of a
fire.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
It's totally comfortable Like on the palette
though.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
It's really surprising.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah, it's savory.
I'm very savory.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
I'm getting like salted meats and stuff at the
end.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Say more about that, vern.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
The meats are salted, well salted, it's going to
sound kind of weird, but it'slike it's almost like a gusher.
Like, the flavor explodes inyour mouth.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Like a gentlemen's gusher.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
So I spent a significant amount of time
looking at these bottles yes, Idid not look into the bottles by
any means.
It was strictly on what thebottle looked like.
I don't know.
Leave it at that.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Oh we went faster than before.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
It doesn't look like a giant bag of gushers.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Whoever has the coolest label wins.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Did you just buy a ton of gushers and squeeze all
the juices out to make a scotchbottle?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
No, that's not what I'm talking about.
It's the experience, the ideaof gushers, come on.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I think I know you're not talking about that, but I
think I am.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Open the gusher packs and pick one big gusher ball.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
No, you make me think of something.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
So you compounded all of them into one pack.
Three or four packs, three orfour packs.
You were allowed to have morethan one pack.
Yeah yeah bro, yeah Rich, overhere I had to have a birthday to
get a pack of gushers.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Come 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 8 (12:14):
So do you just like compact it into a ball and then?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
eat it like an apple.
Probably don't let your skin ifyou're going to see you doing
it.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah, it's very shameful.
I'm sure Sounds fun.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah, sounds like something I'll do in my car
behind the 7-Eleven bottle ofmalort.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
They're just gushers.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
They're just gushers.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But are you putting them together in?
Speaker 6 (12:36):
a ball.
I was thinking about it.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Anymore Another gush of all guys.
So third arrest this week.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I keep coming back to that grapefruit, though it
reminds me of like a candiedgrapefruit ride.
I don't know if you've ever hadthat, that kind of gummy rind,
those candied grapefruit rindswhere you get that sweet, but
there's just that bitterness atthe end.
It almost like you taste, likeyou tested a 9 volt.
You're just kind of gettingthat at the end.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
So I'm getting like on the palate kind of the briny
oyster liquor, the oyster thebriny stuff, and then I don't
know if this is along the linesof the bitterness that you guys
are talking about, but thefinish for me is almost like ash
.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Yeah, I was going to say ash.
I think you're right.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
And I think we're both right With ash Oysters to
ash.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
For me it tastes like a Dominican, like Maduro cigar.
Not the taste of the smoke, butthe actual taste when you're
holding the cigar in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
It's very referential Because that has its own taste
right.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
So that kind of informs the palate of what the
smoke's going to taste like, butspecifically like a Dominican
cigar.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, my mouth is so dry.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
And it's very dry.
I mean, I know about your mouth, but my mouth is dry yeah,
should we touch mouths no.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
I think we might need to touch mouths.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Touching mouths.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I feel like I'm dehydrated.
So that's Vern's mouth.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
But I think you're right.
This is one of the driest, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I am thirsty for water, jesus.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It could be brought up wine earlier, but it's odd to
think of the like a tannin orlike that tannic feel that you
get from that really dry redthat kind of dries your mouth
out Like a black tea, somethingthat really dries your mouth out
.
It's kind of unusual to have ascotch that one hits your palate
and kind of explodes withsweetness and flavor to
associate with kind of moisturein the mouth Moist.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Moist, moist, moist mouth.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
But to have this kind of dryer mouth out is.
It's an interesting.
That kind of like after effecton the palate is unusual.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
More than num or more than dry.
I'm getting like numbing.
Yeah, it's like, it's like amouth, it's like a mouth.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
But it doesn't taste like a, it's like a mint fall
note yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
So the interesting thing is, I added like a cap
full of water.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
He did it.
You added water without tellinganybody, wow.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
You sneaky, wow you guys are like sneaky, you know
what I'm saying, yeah, sneakingin a little cap full of water
here and there, and it reallyactually accentuates the
bitterness.
So if that's like the kind offlavor note that you enjoy, like
I got a lot more of thegrapefruit peel, a lot more of
that like kind of like notpuckering, but like kind of like
(15:46):
bitterness.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
I'm intrigued yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
It's worth a try.
I personally don't like it, butthat's that's a personal
preference.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I mean, you put more lard in it.
You did put more lard in it,really Sorry, that's what I
meant.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
A cap full of lard is what I.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Sweetness 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 andthere's like a lot of other
flavors, because usuallyanytime- I have any scotch or
like any type of like drinkthat's got some sweetness to it.
It's overly sweet.
This one feels kind of in thepocket, no, where it's not
(16:26):
overpowering yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Did 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 ofthat here too.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Totally, that's that's not far off, because the
ham is smoked and you get thatkind of there's that smoked meat
, yeah To it, but it's got thatsweet glaze on it.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You figured it out.
Yeah, that's what it is.
Yeah, that's what it is.
It's what it is, yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
It's what it is, yeah .
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It's what it is.
It's what it is.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Yeah, it's what it is .
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I get it just right on the tip of my tongue, right
when I get it Tippy sweetness,just the tippy sweetness.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Just the tip of sweetness.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
The tip of sweetness is a great novel.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Many award winning.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
So I added some water to it, like as well.
And you're right, it is likebringing out more of the
bitterness, like more of thelike.
Honestly, it's weird.
It kind of brings a malortpencil shade it looks like is it
super appealing for me.
I was hoping for it to open upmore and might be find more of
(17:43):
the sweetness.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
To 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 mypalate might be ruined it's
getting a little more sweet, alittle more smoky.
So I don't know, I'm kind of.
I'm actually digging it morenow.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I haven't added water , but I do get some of the
pencil shavings.
Yeah, it's there.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
It's not pencil shavings, it's juniper.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Nature's pencil shavings Juniper beers.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Nature's gushers.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
It's true.
It is true.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
David, will you pass me the water?
You're going to do it.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
I mean it just burns.
I don't think I'll want to justget it.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
All the reviews that I've heard about adding water is
are negative.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
Yeah, but that's burn over there.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Um, do we have anything else to say about this
Gosh?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
the roof of my mouth feels like somebody took like a
fine sandpaper to it.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I feel like you had either fruit loops or a bonny
sandwich.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Yeah, captain Crouch, captain Crouch, captain Crouch,
dude dagger bread.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
They're almost always dagger bread.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah.
Maybe, like a four zero steelwool Just politely, just
politely, just politely Justremoved some.
Yeah, it's a little rough, yeah, exploited.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
It's a little numb.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
It's a little numb, but it's not roughed up.
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Like, like, just like Captain Crunch does, it's not
like.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I didn't just eat a bowl of Captain Crunch, I just
did like a numbing, it was anumbing cream.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
This 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 miniYou'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 7 (19:47):
The little ghosteens.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
But now, I'm getting that brownish glue that has,
like, the rubber tip at an angleand you like angle the bottle.
You know what I'm talking aboutWood glue.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Oh that's something that's super high.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
It's not wood glue, taipant, maybe, I don't know.
It's got the orange likesilicone rubber.
Yeah, taipant, yeah.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
And then the little, thing, the little thing Kind of
a.
Thing.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Middle school like back in the day.
Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Yeah, I think they took that off the market Like
that's like the most touching.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Yeah, when Lawn Darts got taken off.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I think it was.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
March too.
I remember it was March.
Yeah, those three-wheelermotorcycles got to go too, yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Well, this guy's brain back memories Three-wheel
motorcycles Maybe.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
Hmm.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Who was our last listener?
Alexander Road, okay, so ifAlexander Road was a car,
driving a vehicle.
What vehicle would AlexanderRoad be driving?
Hmm?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Hmm, hmm, that's interesting because his last
name is Road.
Yep, that helps, so we can do astudy.
We'd definitely be driving acar.
Yeah, I think he would besinging now.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Not an off-road vehicle.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
Okay, fair enough.
I feel like this has got someoff-road capabilities.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah, definitely His last name is Road, but there is
a dirt road, but you could haveroad off-road.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
This is like a highway in the morning driving
down to the beach.
No.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
No, that's on your three-wheel track with a
backpack full of mondo.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Okay, fuck me, this is rugged, this is.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
I got yours under your radar, got your mow.
Are we trying to say that this?
Speaker 7 (21:32):
is a different kind of enjoyable.
It's like when you get tocamping or you're on your way to
go camping I don't know howmany you camp Like.
You get there and then you'reon the road.
You know like putting in thebig, like three hour stretch,
and then right when you hit thedirt and you crack the beer and
you're off-road.
You're off-road freshly fromthe road.
(21:55):
Does that make sense?
Mm-hmm, somebody else have thisexperience?
Yeah, you've transitioned fromlike I am commuting to like I am
now recreationally driving.
Yeah, and that's when you cancrack that beer, Mm-hmm, and the
road is rough and you're kindof you don't know where you're
going exactly.
You're kind of following maybesome GPS coordinates or whatever
(22:18):
.
You're going down this curvyroad.
The sun is setting, you're kindof rushing to get there, but
you're, you just got on vacationafter a long drive.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
And all that kind of car is about Alexander's driving
this car.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
And that has nothing to do with the.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Scotch that we're driving.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
What the car is, what this does everything to do with
the Scotch yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
This Scotch is like right when you go off-road.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
You lost me right when we went off-road.
I guess we should be talkingabout what vehicle it is.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Yes, no, Verna, I'm kind of there with you.
Thank you, this is a smart-ass.
I mean, this is your car thatyou love, and I don't have a
specific car in mind.
It's a car that you love.
But, little Genki, you knowyou're getting to this.
You're going to the campingsite.
You're not quite sure.
Is it going to make it, is itnot?
Is it going to make it home?
(23:10):
Not quite sure.
But once you get there, it'slike fuck it, we'll deal with it
later.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, I think the seats are old cloth seats that
smell like vanilla too.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah but they're comfortable, they're real
comfortable.
Couple of tears, they're yourseats.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Stacey, there's a word for tears.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I'm going to go in a different direction now Okay,
we're going uphill.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
It's going to be kind of like my Bond girl type thing
, I feel like that's a lot ofyeah, I feel like you get.
You get in this car and you'relike oh, there's a nice little,
like pretty Porsche or somethinglike sitting there.
And then you get in the car andboom, you're in Transformers
four and the car all sudden likegets like these gigantic like
(23:51):
wheels and transforms into athing and then like starts
running and you're like.
Whoa now like this car is like arobot and like I'm on the beach
and now I'm fighting likedemons and shit, we're on the
beach.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
So this is the Michael Bay of the Sky, yeah.
You see her going in adifferent direction.
Yeah, Transformers four.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So that's the vehicle .
Okay, the vehicle is atransformer, but you see it and
it's like a Porsche and you'relike, oh, you have no idea that
you're about to step into arobot that's going to like get
up and have like a sword andlike a shotgun in one hand.
It does just like start likefighting bitches.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Well, high metal, mineral content, I mean a robot
would, would taste like a robot.
I think this would havesomething like a robot.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
I think this is like a old, like 60s era, like
military Jeep yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Just 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 8 (24:56):
It's not.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Don't believe in them .
Speaker 8 (24:58):
It's not going to be appealing for everybody, but
like it's going to be superappealing for certain people,
yeah.
Because like this is enjoyablebut like I think this is more of
an acquired taste, scotch forpeople that have been drinking
scotch than somebody that's newto scotch, kind of thing.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
I think that's bang on.
I think that's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Now that I understand the call of the question, I'm
going to agree with Dave.
I was going to say this remindsme of like a 60s kind of
sleeper muscle car, where you'regetting some of the exhaust in
the cab with you.
It's loud, it's fast, it'sstrong.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
It rattles a bit.
It rattles a bit.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
The seats have Mexican blanket.
It's a Bench C with Mexicanblankets.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yeah, american you got a sort of board in the back.
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And then Harrison Ford's driving.
Okay, yeah, american graffiti.
Yeah, so it's the aluminum foil.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
No, I don't think it has a slick paint job Actually
Okay.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
It's a little one that is coming it does.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Did it have?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Camaro Yellow Camaro no he drove like a truck.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
He 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 spokein the movie, I think.
I've seen it.
He would just pull up to otherlike cars and just like do the
old, the look, the old nod, andthen they would race and he'd
beat them.
This got you that nod.
(26:28):
Now we're talking.
Yeah, hold on.
So the vehicle that came tomind.
Oh yeah, that's good.
That's the Harrison Ford.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
The vehicle that came to mind to me would be like a
62 series Land Cruiser, so itwould be Lake.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
East.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Vernon and I both had one at the same time, the same
one.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
The same one.
No, we had different ones, theyjust had the vehicle.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
I was thinking after soccer I had a white one.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
He had a blue one about the same time and they
didn't perform that well, butthey're fucking rad.
Yeah, Great vehicles butgutless 148 horsepower.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
It's all you need to get the heaviest vehicle ever.
But yeah, don't go up amountain.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Yeah, but it's a quirky, fun rig and reminds me
of this Scotch.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Well does anybody have like a guess, yeah, of what
we're drinking here.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Region year.
I like BV yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
I'm going to highlight.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
I think, that I like 47% burclotic.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Wow, I love 46%.
I don't know, okay, whichdistillery.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So 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 theclub vibe.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
I'm going to go hard 50.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Oh, dave yeah that's hard.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Does anybody?
Speaker 8 (28:10):
have year guesses Year.
Yeah, I'm curious because Ihave no clue.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
You have a year.
I have no clue.
That's the one that.
I think I never get.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I can never get hard.
I'd say 12ish.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Yeah, I'm going 12.
These days it's different.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
Based on the color.
Yeah, I think it's either likea 4 or a 12.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Yeah, first fill or refill ex-burban barrel.
Not long yeah, so I would saylike eight years, Maybe six.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
Yeah, yeah, like a little six Like a gnarly mash
bill, and then first fillBurbans.
Yeah, distillery I already said, it's perclotic.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
A.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
End of show, that's a wrap.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Feel like an indelible, just a contrarian.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
I was about to say it's like a luffa.
It could be a year Like fancybarrels.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Remember even that it's sort of like art banks are
great, I was going to say artbanks.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I liked the game of the Indians.
It's like a weebee.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
It's like a weebee, but not enough can.
That's right?
Not enough pit.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Now I really want to see the bottle.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
I'm gonna try yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
So 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 girlbecause I liked James Bond.
I liked that it was complex onthe nose.
(29:50):
We had a lot to talk about.
I feel like there's a lot morefruits.
It was a lot smoother of a ridewhen we first started off, which
is awesome, and then all of asudden 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.
(30:11):
It was almost like not quitetwo scotches for the price of
one.
If you add water and it changessomething drastic, that's
really good.
Then you get the.
Then you get the two fur, fromme at least, but I loved that.
I don't know it was.
It was a lady on the street buta freak in the bed.
(30:36):
No, yeah, yeah.
When you smelt it you're likeoh, this is so nice, pear, there
was all kinds of like moresweeter, gentler kind of things
thrown out there.
And then you drink it andyou're like this is a really
awesome rough ride.
So I'm going to give it a ninefor me.
(30:57):
Whoa, I'm starting off the pod.
That's cool.
I'm already Fern, what do yougot?
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Sorry, I was Instagramming at the moment so I
didn't hear anything that yousaid.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I'm sure it was pretty.
It was just know that it wasfantastic.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
It was good.
Probably, if I gave anything,it was the best thing he's ever
said.
Probably.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
I'll have to listen to the podcast.
Yeah, two of you.
Yeah, this is hard because Idon't know when we didn't really
talk about when you would drinkthis.
I don't know we didn't talkabout seasons.
This might be a campfire scotch.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
I can't imagine.
Is it a cold weather scotch ora warm weather scotch?
I think it'd be Well I thinkit'd be.
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Either You're just going to be camping, it's
probably something you couldhave a cigar with.
It's got enough stuff going on.
Maybe it's too much going on ifyou have a cigar, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Can I lay a scene?
Speaker 7 (31:59):
It's a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Yeah, 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 7 (32:09):
It's a windy scotch, it's a sailing scotch.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, I love that Sun goes down, it's cool.
Yeah, are we at altitude.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Would you associate this with altitude?
Speaker 7 (32:19):
But nothing crazy, nothing crazy.
You're at 4K and you've got 20knots coming over Coming down
your back the cruise yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
You have this 20 knots coming in your back,
coming in from the east.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
Yeah, I know it's significant, but you need
something that is going to shakethings up.
You need a scotch that's goingto redirect your attention from
just like the I don't know thesimple novelty things of camping
and be like hey, this is alittle bit bigger and you've got
(32:54):
to focus on it a bit more.
I mean, I guess it takes yourfocus.
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 anumber that we say like I would
(33:16):
drink it again?
Is that eight or is it?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
nine.
That's whatever you want it tobe.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
For me personally.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I, one of my.
One of the biggest things thatI feel like is can I, would I
buy this and bring it at home?
And for me, this got you, Iwould bring it at home, which is
why I give it a nine.
So for me that's kind of likeif you, if I, want this at home,
you're automatically an eightand above, but that's just me.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
I 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 meand but I'm definitely by
curious.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Okay, very good.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
For me.
I'm at an eight two.
I really liked it.
I don't gravitate towards likesweeter scotches, but this one
had so many fun savory and wildnotes that I even though it was
like on the sweeter end, on thefront end I really dug the wild
ride.
So that brings me to an eighttwo Nice.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Andrew.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
I 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 youwent on?
No, I didn't like it less, butI didn't like it more.
(34:48):
And usually I feel like withtime, I like a scotch more.
If I'm gonna, you know, be upin the eights and the nines
Nothing objectionable for me Iwould definitely put this in in
the camping scotches, I think.
As you guys were talking aboutit, I think this might be a
(35:09):
desert scotch because it's dryand hot, I feel like this is
like I want this in Joshua Tree.
Sun 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 ofthat sort, but yeah.
(35:34):
I enjoyed it.
I don't know I might buy it.
I really want to know what itis.
Yeah, I can't wait.
This is a distinct point.
I think curiosity might be myoverwhelming response to it
right now.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Nathan.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yeah, I think I'm gonna build on the desert theme
here.
Build, baby.
I think that Andrew nailed it.
It feels like a desert scotchbecause it is a little dry and a
little hot, and I'm gonna buildoff of Vern's comment too and
call this a Santa Anna windscotch.
There we go.
It's a little chaotic, there'sa little danger, a little
(36:18):
uneasiness, a little paranoia, alittle paranoia.
As a tasting note that's five,even when you were talking about
the vehicles pulling off theroad.
I'm thinking Salton Sea, yeah,the Salton Sea scotch.
(36:41):
I'm heading off the main road.
I'm heading towards or awayfrom Slab City, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Wow, it doesn't matter, I'm getting lost, it's
poetry, it's chaos.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
I think part of that is that the nose and the taste
had so much distinction, likeJustin alluded to with his
Transformers reference.
It was.
It was a Transformer On thenose, it was stone fruits, it
was summer wheat colors, it waslegs for days and the second it
(37:16):
hit my palate.
It was a burst of gushing fruitand then it immediately turned
bitter and those grapefruitnotes just came out and just dry
.
Chaotic desert, santa Annawinds yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Most of the guys at this table are hard right now.
Continue, continue.
Greatest scotch ever.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Well, I think that's my dismount, so I'm going to
give this an eight.
I'm going to give this an eight.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
Wow, wow, I know poetry and chaos and only an
eight and paranoia.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
But I'm having a hard time reading this, because this
is your paranoid, because I'm alittle 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 Ireach for because I've had a
(38:21):
hard day and now I want to relax.
This is I'm ready to fuckingkill someone.
Speaker 7 (38:28):
Or you just did.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
So 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 wouldbring this home.
I don't know that I can bringit 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 2 (38:51):
Chase us with a monster.
Oh yes, there's a monsterinvolved.
Speaker 8 (38:59):
We're talking about the energy drink or like stop
monster man.
It's hard to follow that up.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
That was really well said.
Just say a number and we'll I'mgoing 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 thisbank, bank.
(39:34):
I don't want to, you know Idon't need to go back there all
the time.
But you know, I want to keepthis one in my back pocket and
ready to go when I want it orwhen I need it.
You know, there's a little outthere, a little harsh, a little
bitter, but now that my cup isempty I'm like God.
I could use a little bit moreof that, you know you miss it
and I don't know.
(39:56):
It kind of had all the rightnotes for me.
You know it was if I were togive it a criticism.
It was a little bit too bitter,but that's probably what makes
it, you know, makes me want alittle bit more.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
But so eight point five Hmm, alex, 9.25 one of the
best.
Speaker 8 (40:14):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
That's all you want to say hey man, I know
everything about the spawn.
Speaker 8 (40:25):
I'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 therewere things that I wish it had
like.
I wish like the sweeter notesthat I had at the beginning,
(40:47):
like Lasted a little bit longer.
I wish it tasted less light,less bitter.
It's good and I'm very muchlooking forward to trying it
again and giving it a secondshot, but on first, first glance
for me, I'm in just 7.5.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Hmm, okay, give very, we're gonna be talking about
you.
Speaker 7 (41:15):
That seems fair okay.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
For how I think that's a great score for this.
Speaker 7 (41:21):
Yeah, and scary the Scotch oh.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
Dave and I rated it lowest and I think both of us
would, hands down, give itanother go.
Speaker 7 (41:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
I mean yeah, it was.
It was really fun.
It was really intriguing.
It's just like I was I waswaiting for something else.
Speaker 8 (41:37):
I feel like it's never kick another tasting no or
yeah, I mean to be honest, Ithink for me it was not what I
was expecting Alex to bring tothe table, because the last few
bottles.
Well the last year likepancakes and like breakfast.
Speaker 6 (42:01):
Independent.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
Magnifico to expect a zero from the art department?
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Oh, it's a signature and I knew that I was gonna do
this.
It's a color.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Drop what I dropped on it.
I Was taking a big risk and I'mglad I took the risk.
It was a gamble Signature andit's the unfilled filtered
collection, meaning that when itgets colder it gets smokier,
(42:39):
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 Iam so proud of us, all of us,
because there is not one thingthat we missed.
We hit it all first off.
(43:02):
So it's in a hogshead cask.
So ex bourbon barrels with thenew tops, right, it's 56 or 58%,
or the bottle says 58.3.
Not chill filtered Nose or Ipale gold.
(43:27):
Yeah, great, I think I saidthat.
Maritime notes, pete smoke,malt, vanilla, honey, dried
fruit, waxy lemon peel and someminerality.
Mmm, palak, honey, smoke, waxy,vanilla, candy malt, dry
orchard fruit, malt, basket ofit, touch of fresh, fresh
(43:51):
pastries and slight baking spiceand 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 3 (44:12):
I have a history on the name.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Should I dive into that?
Do we all know?
Sure, we've been a bonglers.
Speaker 6 (44:18):
Yeah, kind of badass they we've got some navy blue in
here, wow.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
And took over operations there.
140 140.
The chill filtering is widelyused to control cloudiness,
removing the majority of thefats and oils found naturally in
the malt.
They didn't do that.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
That's why most of them are not chill filter and
it's 58% or whatever it is.
Speaker 7 (44:50):
Yeah, that's just like if you put ice in in a
chill filtered.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
If you put ice in it'll stay clear.
Non chill filtered.
If you put ice in it'll getcloudy and the industry types
Originally thought oh, that'sbad, that makes our scotch look
Cheap.
It won't sell if it's cloudy.
We want it to be clear.
So they started chill filteringit so it wouldn't cloud up.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Oh, there's in one category that we didn't hit, so
I gotta be honest.
Speaker 5 (45:23):
I know that it's a 58.6 or 58.3 Like.
I would honestly give it a liketwo points high, like two Cuz,
like that was.
Speaker 6 (45:39):
Yeah, that's Narlene.
My mouth told me that it wasn'tsuper high a bv, but my stomach
was like no.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Alex, that was amazing, at least.
Speaker 8 (45:59):
So, except for Andrew and Dave, and give it a second
chance.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
No that was a good scotch.
That was a good time.
Well done, alex.
Speaker 4 (46:13):
Thanks Alex, thanks Thanks dude.
Good work, all the flavors.
Speaker 5 (46:16):
Yeah, cheers boys alrighty, I drink to the health
of another and the other I drinkto.
Is he in the hopes that hedrinks to another and the other
he drinks to is me?
Speaker 2 (46:40):
So stuck on the bananas.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
I didn't get bananas, the Laffy taffy bananas, the
real bananas.
Speaker 5 (46:48):
Yeah the way they're supposed.
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