on the next episode of sips Suds and smokes. Today's show is an irish whiskey show, whiskey, irish whiskey. So we have got four from one producer and four from another. So from Waterford irish whiskey. We have the Wrath Cloud irish single malt Whisky edition 1.1. The Waterford Dunmore irish single malt whisky Edition 1.1. The Waterford Done Bell irish single malt Whisky Edition 1.1. And the Waterford Organic Gaia irish single malt whisky Edition 1.1 from writers tears.
We have the copper pot irish whiskey. The writer's tears, double oak irish whiskey. The writer's tears. Do Xo cognac cask finish irish whiskey and then the writer tears cast strength, irish whiskey. 2019. We'll be right back after this break brought to you almost live from the dude in the basement studios. Why? Because that's where the good stuff is. It sips suds and smokes with your smoke and host the good old boys. Oh now it's sip in time.
Oh yes, it's sitting time again and welcome to this sips episode where everything good in life is worth discussing. As always we are the best thing on at two a.m. They're running our long commercials of lucky terms at two AM now. So Oh yeah, probably we're never gonna beat that. Never gonna beat that. You know it's also on at two AM on that one channel. On my cable is the Andy Griffith show plays like all night. That's definitely better.
We're gonna beat silver coins though when he gets fishing commercial for the silver goes fishing is it's not hard to beat that. So, I mean if you don't like Andy, I'm sorry. I don't want to hang out with you. All right. Well, well this is made man bob and joining me today. I'm sorry bob bob. There's no problem with Andy. It's that Ron howard kid cannot abide by those regular redheads that dopey. Yeah, no, sorry. I can't do that. Are you a ginger hater? No. You know what he is? He's an artist.
He's otis the town drunk down there. Yes. And Sandy and Sandy. I'm going to go back to myself tell Aunt Bee have one eggs in the morning. Yeah. Coming for you Ron howard and clint, I'm coming for your brother. When, when when Aunt Bea passed away. She like left everything to I think it was U. N. C. And they had like an auction and I remember watching because I was in north Carolina at the time and like there's guys that I bought and bees rake. They were just excited man.
You have a different social circle than I do. Yes, I do. You're just jealous. Our sip segments are all about wine, distilled spirits, tea, coffee, hot, cocoa kombucha. Ayahuasca, whatever the hell you can drink. Um So we're gonna be doing, we're going to be no, God, no, we're going to be doing a whiskey show today and today's show is an irish whiskey show irish whiskey. So we have got four from 1 to 1 producer and four from another. So from Waterford irish whiskey?
We have the Wrath Clough, irish single malt whisky edition 1.1. The Waterford Done More Irish Single Malt Whisky Edition 1.1. The Waterford done Bell irish single malt Whisky Edition 1.1. And the Waterford Organic Gaia irish single malt Whisky Edition 1.1. And then from writers tears. We have the copper pot irish whiskey. We have the writer's tears, double oak irish whiskey. The writer's tears, do you? Xo cognac casks uh cognac cask finish irish whiskey.
And then the writer tears cast strength, Irish, Risky. 2019. So, do I really want to do this? No, no, you do not want to do this, do it. Do it. Do not want to do this angel, I'm the devil. Do it, Do it, Do it. Now, see the problem, The problem is, is when I work, there's a devil on the bow shoulders going to it. Apparently he killed the other guy. Alright, We're gonna have Brent tell us, are you? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I've been waiting for this. You know, I have.
I'm sure you have one sip, Give me a glass of water to wash up to my mouth and there's the drunken leprechaun that we all know? Mhm. Two sips? Nice, but what else do you have? Three sips? Interesting. What was that again? What happened there? Your leprechaun changed four sips. Let's keep this secret to ourselves, pouring me another. There he is. This is as bad as when Dick Van Dyke did the english accent and mary Poppins, you know, it's like it's just Dick Van Dyke was better.
Yeah, yeah, you're right. He was. And he could dance too and I don't think you can dance. So you want to watch me dance? Oh yeah, we don't want to watch him dance without pants. Five ships. Oh my I was unaware anything could be this good further proof that we can survive almost anything. We don't want to watch Brent dance without parents. We don't want to watch Men without hats. Oh men without hats or you can dance if you want to. Yeah, you can leave your friends behind.
But if your friends don't dance, there are no friends of mine. Coolest video ever. Oh yeah, definitely. You can tell. We're from the eighties going alright, so against my better judgment, let's have chest and tell us about Waterford irish whiskey. Waterford irish single malt whisky is the latest project of marc Reinier the man behind the rebirth of Brooke Lottie Distillery after the sale of Brooke Lottie.
He decided to focus his efforts on a new project, believing that the barley more specifically the Tarawa in which it was grown is the true essence of the whiskey. He wanted to make a whiskey. That was singularly about the barley. A few years prior Guinness had shuttered and put up for sale, a brewery in Waterford fully equipped with the finest equipment and a state of the art hydro bill. Seizing the opportunity, Mark purchased the site and also purchased the old stills from Brooklyn.
He had the stills refit at four sites in space side and installed at Waterford and hired ned gone. A Prior Guinness employee at the original site as his head distiller and set about realizing his vision. Terroir driven whiskey made from the finest barley from individual irish farms with no coloring, no chill filtration, no finishes with some naked whiskey here. That's an interesting concept when you think about it.
You know, each bottle of Waterford irish single malt whisky bears a unique code that you can enter into their website to learn all about the individual farm that grew. The barley used exclusively in that bottling details about its owners, its location, soil type, dates of planting, harvesting, even recordings of the sounds in the fields, which I got to listen to that. Yeah, it's actually there. It's like you press the button, you can like hear crickets and stuff awesome.
They have so far worked with 97 different individual Irish farms. Waterford even built a special facility known as the Cathedral of Barley to receive and store the barley from each of the individual farms, you know, so interesting thing though, with the Simpsons and smokes website. We have a new code that you can pull up and enter each one of our, you know, you can pull up to learn each one of us. It's like an individual farm. It's an individual host. Yeah, yeah.
It's like one line long like five words. I didn't even, we have that, but first let me say Justin, he's a drunk brand, he's a drunk are meets a drunk. It's very interesting. Class. Yeah. And when we hit the little button to listen to the field that we all grew up in, uh yeah, what are we here? That's what we're here. Yeah, that's what we're here. So my field had cobras anyway, so let's see what all this attention to terroir tastes like. I want to give props to mark.
But when I think of Brookland, I think of Jim Mcewan, you know the distiller he hired to do with the prickly things. So I'm happy with this and I really, I'm open minded, I want to see what happens here. So Let's do it. And all this furniture is mine and I have that China and Linen and £50 in gold. My father left me and my mother's rings and broaches and my grandmother's wedding veil and her silver combs and buckles and £30 odd in notes and silver. Oh that's a woman I want. Yeah, definitely.
You couldn't pull a quote from dairy girls, come on man over the times netflix kids, dairy girls. I'm not being paid for this. Ad, do this, Watch it's fantastic. So we're going to talk about Waterford rough claw english, single malt, whisky english, Oh God irish single malt was shooting the ira is coming after you right now. It's been nice knowing you, I liked starting my car, But now I'm gonna have Brent do it. So addition 1.150% alcohol by volume 100 proof.
The barley for this expression was grown by richard rafting on his low lying, quick drying glacier meltwater, gravel soils in Killarney Wrath claw stone fort. The Barley was sewn on March 20, Harvested 21 August 2015 Malted, May 19, 2015, 2016, 2016. and Distill June 26 July 4, 2016. So we got a light copper color. I got black pepper. Hey and citrus peel on the nose on the palate.
I got baked apple pepper, dried and dark fruit and the finish was pleasant and long Brent, what did you think this reminded me of growing up in Minnesota when I would roll down the windows and driving through the country and I smelled that hay fields that are there. And so I got that hayfield note right off the bat in Minnesota, like surrounded by Vikings and crushing losses for a football team. Yes, okay.
You know, very big losses, mind you, um, but uh, but yeah, that's a, the hay was what stood out to me on the nose really quickly and uh, I mean and the color you gave, it sounded like it was a copper color of some kind, There's nothing copper about all these, these are more of a yellowish yellowish color. But um, to me I wasn't, it's the concept of this is more interesting than how this one tasted for me. So it was a little bit on the light side for me.
But um, in Canada, we had, I grew up, I grew up in Winnipeg and we also had that midwestern thing until he was exported. And uh, I hate doing this. But you know, we called them a fields anyway. I mean everybody, everybody I've ever met from Canada is like really nice and polite. You've never been to candidate your life. I'm bitter. That's why I've been in the United States. You're the exact opposite. That's why they threw him out. I smell the, hey, this is midwest. This is the midwest.
You can, you can tell the terroir is there that he was, sorry, not sorry, exactly. Something. We'll be back. Hey, and we're back and we are discussing the first whiskey from Waterford, The raft glow irish whiskey, 1.1 edition. What do you think harm? Uh, well it's got some really pretty notes. A um, baked apples. Like, like Justice said, the black pepper is definitely there. I got more dark chocolate. It's kind of kind of bitter touch to it.
The herbal note, you can tell this is something that's different from other irish whiskeys and it's about the Barley Chronicle. Yeah. It's definitely the thing that I noticed is since we've opened it, it's it's when we first opened it was a little one note. But the nose is definitely gotten much better. It's not just the Hayfield. Yeah. It's it's significantly evolved in the last hour or so. So. Yeah. Very much so. From when you, when we first did it? Very much so. How do you like them? Apples?
Yeah, exactly. I wonder, I wonder what would happen if we put this through a spirit aerator. I don't have one here. I would if I did because it's I mean it's had some tails above what it was when we first opened it. I mean it's significantly different. It's got on the nose. It's the pepper is there, there's definitely, I definitely get some citrus, especially in the tip of the nose um Right at the very end.
I get uh they get some women in there and maybe a little bit of blood orange and not in the palette. I didn't get the citrus peel earlier at all. And now you're absolutely right there there. That's what I'm saying. This thing in the last hour has changed significantly. Um Get the pepper. I get some like some dark stirred fruit. I definitely get um you're right about the one thing, it's definitely got the stringency to it, a little bit of bitter like dark chocolate as opposed to milk chocolate.
Um Maybe even like a dutch cocoa. I I want to like it more. I think it needs to be made into a whiskey that you would make a cocktail with but so good effort. What's the rating? We're gonna be raiding the wrath clause irish single malt whiskey. Two steps. So let's move on to the second one we got from Waterford and we're gonna have Brent tell us about that one. Thank you bob. So this is a war. Waterford done more irish single malt whisky. It's edition 1.1 50% A BV or 100 proof.
This the barley for this expression was grown by john tinian in county tainan tainan. Okay, go ahead and say what county this is County leos. I don't know. I know. Westerly facing lowland. A terrier by an ancient medieval fort done mar. The barley was sewn on more done more than more than more. Well, he didn't, he didn't do less. So barley was sewn on March 18th 2015, harvested on august 17th 2015 malta june 2nd 2016. And it's still july 5th through 11th, 2000 and 16.
So color on this one, they're all, there's a year between germination and malting. What's going on here, man. Well, it takes a it takes a while to bolt everything. So, I mean, you know if you've ever been through the malting process. I know you have been you've seen it. How long it takes. What are you kidding? He has multiple. Look at him. Yeah, but I've been air dried, You've been something, yeah.
So the color on all these is a, is a, is like a light yellow, it's not a brown drinking down or anything like that. It's a pale gold, pale gold, pale gold. Yeah, yeah. So on the, on the nose I got, I got black pepper, I got like an orange chocolate, like those orange chocolate balls that you get a christmas. Sometimes I got like that. I got something, I didn't get one either. I didn't get one either.
And I normally we have them every christmas, you know, but I got a little bit of a little bit of cinnamon grits kind of thing. It's um, the on the palate I got uh it's a huge baking spice bomb. I mean, this is uh lots of baking spices on here. I got some uh some apples, some lemon, um a little bit, a little bit of licorice on there, um a little bit of popcorn, a little bit of, you know, it's just, it's just nice. It's very nice.
It's uh, the finish on it is, it's like a medium finish and it's just different to see how these are all different from themselves using different fields and same. So same distillery, same stills, same type of barrel, zero fat, zero finishing and same yeast. The only thing difference is the farm that the barley came from and look how different the first two are. These are completely different, completely different from each other. I mean you wouldn't recognize one from the other.
You're not going to get a mistake. One from the other. Yeah, you're going to have their irish, but they're definitely definitely tell the irish Oh, here we go. Drunken leprechaun actually like that one that was good. Leave it alone. Give him props. You did good on that one. You know, it's a harm. What do you think about it? No, I'm agreeing with you. I'm agreeing with you. I think I got a little more like almond on this and a little bit of grapefruit more.
But um everything a big spice bomb like you said and the orange chocolate is dead on, dead on. Very multi. Um yeah, I this is this style I particularly liked better than the first one. But I see what mark is going going here. Let's let's see what happens after this. So Justin what do you think? So? I think this is like a candy store for adults, not the cheap, you know, dots and stuff like that, but the really good marzipan and All the things you really want.
You know when you've got like $40 spent on candy what do you think bob? I thought it was excellent. Um again, it's big spice up front, a little bit of marzipan, definitely some citrus and lemon in there. Um a little bit of chocolate, but not like the first one. The first one was a lot more of the chocolate. It was more of a dark chocolate. This is more this is more of like a milk chocolate in the back palate and we didn't talk about the malting. So the malting is identical as well. The malt.
Yeah, the only thing that's different is the, is the grain from the different farms and that's what they're trying to show us. Same color, same temperature molting. Um We're gonna be raiding the uh Waterford Dunmore irish single models Edition. three steps. Alright, so hard to tell us about our next one. Thank you bob. I'm happy to do that. The water ford a done bell or dumbbell was it? Is it done Belhanda? I suppose the double irish, but it's not done. Done, but I think it's misspelled.
You're doing it. There should be an M. In there. Alright. It's additional 1.1 50%. HBV war 100 proof of the mathematically challenged the barley for this expression was grown by ned Murphy of east, I'm sorry east of the river North river nor nor nor nor nor in county kilkenny on the deep loamy soils derived from the glacial drift of limestone, sandstone and shale. The barley was sewn on april 8th 2015 and harvested on september 20th 4015.
Yes, it's, there's a typo here says 21 05, but not so much malted on june 23rd 2016. And distilled september 23rd to the 30th of the year of our Lord 2000 and 16. What county are they from kilkenny, You bastards, waiting. Anyway. This is like the color is a pure gold. The nose is sublime freaking beautiful. This is about the barley and this is what surprises me because I cannot believe this much difference came from the barley. I thought this was also from the yeast.
There's there's there's no wild yeast. This is inoculated. Alright, so to me it's buttery, toffee, green apples, butterscotch, tons of like, like a raise like cinnamon raisin porridge with just a huge pat of butter and oh my God and the palette, candied apple spices and I got huge apricot with clothes mouth feel stunning, stunning mouth feel, The mouth feel. And this one is really nice and it's different.
It's kind of crazy when you think about it, of how the mouth feel on this one is so much different than the other two, that I mean it really, it's a huge, huge difference, cannot believe it, but I I knew barley makes it obviously nobody, you know, I'm you know, dr bill from Glenmorangie swears by cat bowl. Barley lately. I'm not a fan of the cattle. Barley, like some of the stuff he was using and he's not a fan of you either.
So well, I love dr bill and he loves my wife and he tells me dirty jokes, I don't care as long as he hangs out with my wife and we can drink together. But so there but he did this thing with a wild G strain called alta and that was a butter bomb like this. And I was like this this is all the barley, this is this is all the barley, this is amazing. And that's why I was lucky to spend probably an hour, hour and a half on the phone with Mark discussing this.
And you've never it was like talking to a preacher. I mean, he was he was so, so excited about this whole project. He was so, I mean when you talk to him, you could just hear the enthusiasm in his voice for this project and for basically showing the difference in the whiskey based on the farm that the barley came from. Can you imagine somebody can, can you imagine somebody in Kentucky doing this with just the base product?
I mean, they go so far as like when they deliver it to the cathedral of barley, like, that batch is put in an entirely separate area, so nothing ever mixes. I mean, they're they're they're very very very it's it's it's pretty cool, but this this is what happens limits your production, it limits it heavily. You can't you can't make I don't think he cares, I think he's more into the science of it and and this is showing that this is something different than everything else?
See, I love Mark and now I hate him because now he's like, Well you made 92 different types of Barley now. I gotta buy 92 different types of Waterford Whiskey. Thanks Mark. I see what you're doing here. Are you in a liquor store? It's like you buy anything. Come on. What do you think? Justin, This reminded me, well what number 1? He made the proposition that It's all about the Barley and he's 100% right. He's proven it with these expressions.
This particular one, the dumbbell one reminds me of like McCann steel, irish oats with fruits in it. It's like a healthy breakfast. I freaking love this. Oh yeah. This for breakfast was very healthy. I'm actually in my grits. Yeah, I think if you pour this in a bowl of grits, you'd have a really good. Really good. No, no, no, no grits. Come on. Hey, my grandfather's family came from kill kearney iowan and he ate plenty of grits. Nothing wrong with it. What do you think Brent?
Oh yeah, I love this already. This is great. This is the whole concept in the, in the mouth. Feel that you get off this one versus the other two completely different than if I told you that these first three were made in the same distilleries? Forget, forget anything to do with barley east or anything if I told you that these were made in the same distillery period, would you believe it? Absolutely not. No, exactly, exactly.
They're each so much different than each other that you wouldn't believe it. And and to think that there's only one thing that changes from the three of them. And now with now with their, I'm getting more chocolate on the palate control and that's the thing that they've changed so much. I mean, that first one is hugely revisited hugely different. The nose on it is evolved because I didn't want anything to help them all just to drop just a tiny. I'm the one telling you guys to have water thing.
That's why we, that's why we remind you, listen for once. That's why we have this done. Bell is just, it's toffee and, and dark chocolate and, and like cinnamon porridge, um a little bit of pepper, definitely a big thing of apricots and orange peel this, this one, this one's fantastic. If I was gonna drink irish whiskey, I would drink this one, definitely. You know, you're not drinking if he was on a desert island and there was no bourbon.
Yes. So I could get him to drink this ST patty's day in the morning. Yes, for sure. Well, we're gonna be, we're gonna be giving the Waterford done Bell irish single malt whisky edition 1.1 and extremely well deserved forceps? I would love to see this in five more years. Oh my God, I don't know how much it's gonna put a few more of these away. Yeah, yeah, I don't know how much it's going to improve. It's it's really nice. I mean, he was making a point, he made the point. He's right.
All right, well, we'll move on to the next one, which is the Waterford organic ia english single malt whisky edition. 1.1 next to this idiot irish single malt whiskey, 1.1. It's named in honor of Gaia, the neo pagan goddess of your, a personification of mother earth herself.
This expression is Ireland's first whiskey distilled from certified organic irish barley, john Malik patty, his name is actually Patty patty, Tobin, Alan Jackson, Pat and Dennis Booth, Jason, Stanley and Trevor Harris rose to the challenge laid down by Waterford to produce the first irish grown organic malting barley due to the low yielding of organic bar away, they combine these crops together, which is the only one that they've actually mixed farms on uh is one batch prior to distillation.
The barley was malted on july 14th 2016 and distilled from september 4th to 13th of 2016. Again, pale gold straw color on the nose. I get a lot of, I get a lot of orange zest on this, a little bit of caramel on the nose get more malt and honey and orange dust. I definitely, I definitely get a lot of the malt on it and almost a saltiness.
Almost almost like like a Nori like a bomb or like when you have a bit more and you've got that, that salt spray in your nose um on the palate, let's give this a try. Mm hmm. It's got a lovely mouth feel to it. It's very coating. It's got a creaminess on the tongue. Um I'm getting some pepper on it. I definitely get some clove and some baking spice oily, very oily. It's got it's got a it's got a lot of viscosity to it.
It's almost like, I don't want to say Campbelltown oily, but almost a Campbelltown oily. I'll give you dude, I'll totally give it to it. It's heavy. It's different. It's Yeah, this one, this one is lovely and then definitely some butterscotch on it, a little vanilla. It's like salted caramel. Yeah, well that salt, that saltiness comes through and it's not just on the nose, it's also on the palate.
So that's what I'm saying that I get that salt spray on the nose, you know, like I said, you would almost think that this was, you know when you have something like a bomb or an art bag, sometimes you'll get that saltiness to it and you know where the, where the houses are. I mean they're right on the water. This is not, I don't believe, I mean not where not where they're aging it. Um but you're getting that salt spray to it and you're also getting that saltiness to it.
So, you know, it's definitely it's in the grain guys. It's definitely in the grain. You know, we didn't I'm looking over there next to you bob and I we didn't talk about how beautiful these bottles are. Oh yeah, the bottles are gorgeous. They're like beautiful, striking blue glass. They've got the uh, what are these called? The vintage glass closures? The glass capsules. They're they're great. Like, the, like the Germans love to use this for rieslings that are amazing.
This is this is a nice, beautiful, stunning package. Can I see the one with the blue cap? The most of these are gold cap, except one with the blue. What's the blue cap one? I think they just ran out. That's the organic one, but that's okay. The organic has got the sky blue. Yeah, so so they they just think it was the first three along with this one from from that. Yeah, this is beautiful.
The packaging, the marketing, the and look and normally I poo poo marketing and it gets it gets me upset when people do too much talk about marketing, but what they've done with this, they they've made, they've proven the point, the farm makes the difference with the barley. Yeah, it's uh like I said, it was like talking to an Evangelical preacher and by the end of the conversation, I could not wait to do this show. I'm like, I really, really want to do this.
So I can see the difference in these. So, what do you think? Yeah, I'm surprised that this is not this, the story is not on the coast because of the saltiness that you get from it, you know, like, so maybe the farms are, maybe the farms are close to the coast and maybe you get it from, maybe you get it from that. Um but they've done a great job with, this is another one I could be drinking. If I'm drinking Irish whiskey, I could be drinking this one as well.
I think everybody needs to try it just to see what they're missing out on 92 of them. Yeah, well, we'll be back hey, and we're back and we are discussing irish whiskeys from Waterford, we just finished talking about the Waterford, Organic Gaia, irish, single malt whisky. What do you think, Jasmine? I thought this was refreshing. I thought that it had nice complications, especially for irish whiskey, which tends to have fewer notes and bourbon or some scotch malt whisky.
I used to call irish whiskey, whiskey. T there's definitely a t to it generally. This, this is just refreshing. This is what you want to drink after a run After a run. When did you, when did you? Okay, not for any longer than 10 seconds at a time, but you know, ever since I learned how to shoot, I quit running. I love this. I love this. Run for 10 seconds. I have an irish whiskey for 10 seconds. I run long enough to get that's called interval training.
I run long enough to get out of the holster and put one in the chamber and that's about it. I've gotten Brent excited about exercise. Now I can run for 10, run for 10 seconds and have a drink shot. Right, I'm gonna I love that kind of work out. All right, well, we're going to write the Waterford organic guy, irish single malt Whisky edition, 1.1 forceps. And then we're going to have very different forceps. We gave the last one for 60 years.
This one forceps, but the whiskeys are completely different. Again, that's the cool thing. I again, when he was talking about it and you know, I got totally into it as he was talking about it. He's right, he's absolutely right. It's it's, there's a huge difference. So it's like Pokemon. Gotta get them all. I've got a word. So, let's have Brent tell us, by the way, I need to point out, we don't get paid by these sponsors. We don't get paid by by these whiskey distributors.
Let's have Brent tell us about our next whiskey. Thank you bob. So, Writers tears is a brand of irish whiskey, from Walsh whiskey. An Irish company established in 1999 by bernard and rosemary Walsh writers tears is of adding of single malt and single pot still whiskeys. Distilled from 60% malt and 40% pot still with no grain whisky, Writers tears is triple distilled non peed ID and matured and aged in american, oak, bourbon, casks.
So that's a little bit different process than what we're normally used to and stuff. So again, the color of this is a, is a light coppery, light gold ish yellow to it. Um on the nose, I get a lot of fruit, I just get, it's just like walking through it like an apple orchard or you know, or something like that. You get huge apples. Yeah, yeah, huge apple, like an apple orchard, herbs. I've got spearmint and lavender, baby. Yeah, yeah. You know on the palate?
No, you were right about apples right away. It's a bouquet of apple, apple flowers and then spearmint and lavender on the palate. It's a very, it's a very mild palette. It's just uh I get, I get a lot of that fruit. I get that the spearmint comes through on the palate. You get a light spearmint and nothing is overpowering. It's a, it's a, it's just a very, it's a suitable, what I'd like to call, just like a a nice sip herbal drink, maybe cloth.
Maybe just throw an ice cube in here, just uh just to chill out. A little bit scrambled to cue us an extra 11 points, Right. Um but pleasant and I don't know any, any word that's not now. I don't really think when I think of irish whiskey. I don't think of this, you know, I don't think of this as being irish whiskey. You know what you think of the watery stuff. This is much better. Yeah, But that's where you went there, Bob.
Uh this is this is, this is a different, everybody makes junk, there's junk and Scott when there's junk in Kentucky, there's junk in Tennessee in Ireland also makes some of the best whiskies. And what is it? What is it he told you that one time about drinking expensive whiskey. Get a better job. Exactly. Thank you. Dave. Exactly. And this is only 40 proof. Well for yeah, yeah, 80 proof. So I mean it's this will be their entry level and you can understand why it's their entry level.
It's uh it's just their basic, you know that their basic product that they're going to put out and put on the shelf. Um and then from this you're gonna want to search out their other products. Yeah, this is, I mean this is what if this is their base, you know, they're starting from a good base. Yeah, it's not not bad at all. You know and that the apple orchard is what what brought rang me in right away. You know just the, the apples, but it's a light side of an apple.
Let's throw this one of the dogs, let's see what Justin has to say. So I was talking to bob before the show and the sample that I had was like really off. So he's like clean your glass and do it again. So I did that and it's really pleasant. What's unique about this spirit is the ginger note that comes through. I've had a lot of irish whiskey but I've never had one with this prominent ginger note. So I got more spearmint than ginger but I see exactly we're talking about. I appreciate this now.
It's very nice. Thank God. I redid it. You know, it's having a clean glass one. Yeah, don't drink bourbon and then not clean your glass and drink this. It's not going to work, but it wasn't designed to do that. Yeah, yeah, but it's, it's good hey, live and learn live and learn well we're going to be uh, we're gonna be giving the writers tears, copper pot, irish whiskey. A well deserved three steps, introductory level spirit. That's worth, well worth it. Oh yeah, absolutely.
And you know I mean for the price you're gonna pay, you can't, you know what are you gonna do? Alright, we have Justin tell us about our next one. So the next whiskey we're gonna talk about is the writer's tears, double oak Irish whiskey. It's 46% alcohol by volume or 92 proof. A blend of single pot still and single malt irish whiskey aged in two types of wood, american, oak bourbon barrels from Kentucky in french oak, cognac casks from the cognac region in France. It's tripled.
I'm sorry Justin, this is America. That's cog nac cognitive, there's a G right there always steeled cognizance finish, non chill, filtered and bottled at 46% alcohol by volume. This expression is made possible by close collaboration between the Walsh family and Ireland's county Carlo and the Lagardere family in cog nac France. I'm sure they really appreciate that pronunciation around. I'm just, I'm surrounded by uneducated heathens. No, don't put a G in it if you want me to say cognitive.
That's what I said, Philip Wegmann Phillip mignon is actually a very under underrated cut of steak because people, you know, my wife's a southerner, she likes the whole, that that new york strip, she's from Alabama. I mean, doesn't she like wildcat or you know, nutria, whatever road, whatever roadkill is available in this show, possum, the other white meat. So the nose is basically spice cake and the palette is definitely chocolate covered orange. So I, I appreciate this.
I think they did a good job. I'll give you a spice cake. I don't know about that. Chocolate covered orange just to get some milk, chocolate and I definitely get the citrus. Okay, why, why are you guys agreeing with Justin? Now you're you're killing me. Well, sometimes Justine is right, it's a one time, right. A broken clock. Yeah, I was gonna say no, no, my clock is never right because it runs but at the wrong like a broken led digital clock. Okay, it's right. Once. Once I am.
That's what all my digital clock say. That's what his VHS says. What's, what's worse? The fact that his VHS is blinking 12 and the fact that he still has a VHS or that or that it's a beta. VHS Okay. I will. I was up all of his dirty movies are my dad wanted me to forget about DVD, forget about VHS. My dad wanted me to set up a blu ray for him who still uses blu ray. Everything is streaming.
I would figure your dad would have like one of those video disc things, you know, magnifies or whatever Ray works when your wifi is crap. So props to your dad, he was like, he was like, no, no, my dad wanted the blu ray for the, the fish aquarium screensaver. Alright, well he wants the beta for almost dirty movies because they're still in beta. So you know, I mean Yeah, Yeah, the VHS Format one was beta maxes superior back in the beta days. It was too hairy.
Yeah, I don't want to go there, let's finish up this one here. Yeah, yeah, I got the, I got the whole on the palate, I got the whole chocolate orange thing, you know, it was, it's nice, it's a nice creamy palate and it's not too oily and where some of these are a little bit oily. I thought this was a little bit creamier. Um I enjoyed it. I don't think that I'm gonna be running out to get this one versus other ones, but I'm going to not buy something, but he's not gonna buy non bourbon.
I'm so shocked. Right? I don't know why anybody would be shocked about that, but it's true, you know, but I know it's not your beloved Och Tamar, but oh my God. Yeah, I could deal with that right now. Might have some in the back but say it will scare some up. Find something. Don't, don't tease me. What do you think? Harvey. I actually agree with you guys. What you guys had to say? Which is freaking me out. It was like, have I drank too much whiskey today? What's going on?
Yeah. All right, well, we're going to be raining the, we're going to be given the writer's tears. Double oak, irish whiskey. A well deserved three steps, interesting. Alright, harm, tell us about the next one. All right, well, thank you so much. The writer tears the dough XO X. O. It's not do like the number two array of dope. It's dope. It's a brand of cognac. It's the dough. XO Cognac cask finish irish whiskey. It's 46% A BV 92 proof. This is the writer's tears.
Copper prat dough XO Coppers finish. Uh, Cognac finished, finished for nine months in french limousin, john oak from the renowned family Coop ridge of salary that we have been that has been seasoned by the leatherette families dough Xo cognac for between 10 to 15 years. So basically Now they changed the rules for Cognac to be XO to be 10 years old minimum.
Used to be 7.5 years for XO but a few years back, there was a 10 year old minimum And now this is there, these guys do X. So um, Is between 10 and 15 years old. So basically they're using used barrels from the, from the Amazon. Really wonderful oak barrels And this is the writer's tears taking on the next level. The next freaking level. This is all about those cognac flavors, pears and berries and just citrus zest and there's apricot and spices. There's cinnamon and clove. I freaking love it.
Um this is just, this is the most intensely um, I mean intensely flavored or intensely smelling uh writer's tears I've had ever before. It's gorgeous. And on the palate, mm hmm. Just mouth coating creamy hints of chocolate on there. The finish is long with citrus and apricot. I love it. What do you think Brent?
Yeah. One thing on the nose is I always, every single season I get a jar of raspberry, pear raspberry jam from my brother in law and and when, when I smelt, this is like, that's exactly what I thought I had. I was like, man. I got the pear raspberry jam here and this is the creaminess on the palate. I enjoyed it immensely uh of all the, of everything we've had here today so far up to this point, this has been my favorite. I enjoyed this one a lot. It's gorgeous. What do you think?
Well, the nose is like a basket of citrus fruit and the palate is like mixed berries and cream. Okay, I can't say much more than that. Well, we're going to be raiding the writers tears dough. Xo, cognac cask finish, irish whiskey. A well deserved four sips that's classified. So let's go to our last one of the day. It's the writer's tears cast strength irish whiskey, 2019 53% A BV 106 proof.
The 2019 vintage cast strength was the ninth release from writers tears, Only 30 780 bottles, which uh, the rep actually poured some advocates personal bottle and send it to us for this. It's non shell filtered and bottled at cask strength again, pale straw gold color. It's got a beautiful, beautiful nose to it. It's just sweet, sweet with a little bit of pepper to it. It's got similar notes to that.
Cognac casks, but on the palate, completely different um, walnuts, basically like honey and oatmeal, A little bit of apricot, a little bit of like malted milk ball. Absolutely delicious. I mean really, really, really nice. What do you think are, I think I got more of the apricot on the nose of the cognac one. The apricots on the palate here. I didn't get as much raspberry is is branded on that last one.
But the berries here are are underneath all this apricot, there's tons of more apricot, there's more walnut. Well, that's what, that's a walnut. That's a tree nut to it. I mean completely different but delicious. What do you think Brent? Yeah. Originally I wasn't hip on this one. It was just a little, I just didn't, it just didn't mess with me, you know, and everybody said, well add some water and stuff and then I haven't even added water yet.
And now you're coughing because the water made you cough because you're not used to it. I added added water to this one. I added water to the other to the previous one and I really enjoyed this one. This was great. But we're gonna be rating the writer's tears 2019 cast strength a well deserved forceps. Well, that's all the time we have for today. We hope you enjoyed this episode.
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