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This is Mystery Scotch Tasting with

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Gentlemen of the World and we are a club that

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gets together and we try Scotch

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Blind With

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us tonight . I am Justin Andrew

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Dave .

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Nathan Chris .

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Evan .

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Alex and Vern , and , just

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like we do every night when we get together

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, we pick up our glass and start

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talking about the colors . We had

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some major technical difficulties

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with getting this podcast

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up and going , so we're all very

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thirsty , but we're still going to try and

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relax and be patient

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.

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Andrew yeah , dave , I

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mean our sound guide decided to go on vacation , which is really

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disappointing , but

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you know .

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But give it to him . He fixed it .

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He did fix it , probably From a cave From

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a cave in Northern California or something .

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So this Scotch is gold , copper

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color .

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It looks like melted gold , kind

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of gold yeah 14K .

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I think I see some gold leaf floating in there it shimmers in the

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light .

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Is this gold schlager ?

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Can we get a leg check ? I know Dave's kind

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of the leg guy but Finish .

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We got some legs though .

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Yeah , some legs they're chunky , yeah , strong

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legs , oh my understanding Chunky legs

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Thick 2C's legs

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.

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Yeah , yeah .

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Oily Great , it

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looks drinkable .

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Should we smell it ?

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I'd love to smell this .

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Ooh , that's a little

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spice right up there .

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It's like a spicy island , dave , kind

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of a little heat to it , little

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nose prickle .

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I also am getting a little bit of a sweet sense

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too . A little bit of honey , yeah

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.

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Oh , it's lemon candy . Can you sugar a Sugar

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plums , sugar plums .

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Sugar plums .

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Is that legal ? You can make a song

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out of it .

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Yeah , make some money .

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I just get some furniture polish .

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Hmm .

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I mean , you're not wrong about the sweet stuff yeah .

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Maybe like orange , like oily orange

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stuff yeah .

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Getting like a I don't know . I'm getting like kind

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of the cereal grain off it . It reminds me a little bit of like a

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French saison beer , like

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a little bit of that tartness and kind

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of brittiness .

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I'll keep my hot tamales comments to myself .

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You peasant actually .

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Now that you say it though , I'm smelling hot

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tamales .

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That's not wrong . I had some between

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a saison and a hot tamale .

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Right down the middle it's called

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heaven right there , yeah , a saison

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yeah .

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Yeah , lots of different , like candied fruit .

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The sweet for me is more

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like a milk chocolate . Hmm , oh , no , well , I don't

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On the nose . Yeah , oh

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, I mean what else ? I thought you tasted it .

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I thought you tasted it . I thought you tasted

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it .

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Sounds like chocolate On the eye .

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Almost like those chocolate

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covered orange sticks yeah

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.

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Beautiful .

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But it's like a hot , like an Easter

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milk chocolate it is like cayenne

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hot and spicy . Yeah

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, I feel like it's cask strength .

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I feel like I smell the , the , the

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wood , the , the cask , hmm

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. It smells great Like fresh

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oak smells to me .

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All very good signs . Yeah , I like

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very excited to try this .

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I'm very into this scotch I

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this is hitting a lot of my favorite

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favorite notes Olf , olfactory

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, what was the olfactory

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Sense ? Scrumptious

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for your nose , what was ?

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it , oh yeah .

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Damn , it , yeah , we

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drink for a scotch .

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Yeah .

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So scientific to this .

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Fully . We had memories .

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Should really record this yeah .

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I will say , having not done this in seven

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months , it's like . It's just like riding

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a bike , it's like coming home .

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Yeah , loving it . That

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ties together . Yeah , welcome home

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, chris . Yeah , vern , do you want

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? Do you want to rate it ?

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before you get a drink .

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Yeah , I'm ready to go .

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Yeah .

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I'm getting so many candy notes Like cotton

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candy , bubble gum like bubble lishes

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, yeah , now that some of the heat is

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kind of dissipating .

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Yeah , it's almost like that vibe when you walk into

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a candy store and it's like all the candies , yeah

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, you know . Yeah , did you guys just go to the

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OC fair ?

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Yep , I drove by it and

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decided not .

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The orange chocolate

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covered orange sticks or somebody said

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that .

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I feel like that's really resonating with me the

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oak barrel aged on

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the palate does not as a disappointment .

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You've already tasted it .

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Oh wow , I did too yeah .

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Now I can't not drink it . The

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pressure is on .

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A little bit of heat up front goes away quick .

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If it is stronger than normal

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, then it's a lot of heat . Kudos to them

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.

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Oh belly heat .

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It packs a punch . Yeah , I don't

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know , I'm still getting heat all the way

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down . I am too , but it's

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not a . I'm not dying also

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. No , you know I'm not regretting

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drinking . It's like Arizona

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Scotch it's dry heat .

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Yeah , it's a dry heat rather than

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a cool , a cooling menthol

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heat . It's like breeze

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, alex , was that used Chili powder Cayenne .

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Cayenne , the cinnamon really

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sticks through the way at the end , like

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in the back , in the back of your palette , yeah , yeah

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, where else it

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is a cinnamon heat .

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Like there is a little bit of fireball in

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this , it's just a little bit .

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I'm definitely sticking with the sweetness on

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the palette . You know it's still very sweet , very

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candy forward .

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Yeah , it's a really cool mix of heat

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and air conditioner , heat

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and sweet .

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Yeah .

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Man the nose , though like going back to those

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, it's even more bubble

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yum , cotton

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candy .

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I'm getting like some

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, some kind of like prune or raisin

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, almost yeah .

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I , I , the cinnamon , the

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. I made a joke about fireball , but I

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this almost is like the fireball of scotches

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.

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Yeah , I mean it's

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kind of embarrassing , but you can say it yeah .

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But it's so interesting going back to the nose and

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it's not quite matching up anymore for me .

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I appreciate it .

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I'm getting more of the fruit like almost like berry

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blueberries , the

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berries , but then also some oakiness .

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Yeah , so you're not at the OC fair anymore

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.

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No , no , well , I mean , there's some

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cotton candy in there , yeah , yeah .

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After tasting it , you're totally being on like blueberries and

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oak for me .

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I will say the the fireball analogy is not to disparage

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it . It's a very sophisticated version of

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fireball , if there ever if you're looking to elevate

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your fireball drinking , this is fireball

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cast strength guys .

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Yeah .

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This is a gentleman's fire fireball .

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Yeah , it's interesting , for as oily as

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the legs looked , I'm not really getting

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a rich , oily mouth feel it

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almost is a little thinner than I expected

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.

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Well , it doesn't have much of a lingering

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aftertaste or anything , it's kind of all upfront

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it's . It tastes good and

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well made but doesn't have a lot

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of layers on the palate . For me , Same

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yeah . It just tastes really

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good , but it's really fast and really yeah .

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It's like a really big heat blast in your mouth .

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Yeah .

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And then it kind of just and then it's gone yeah

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.

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I might try this with water , not yet

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, but in a bit . Yeah , what you're

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thinking about it , I'm thinking about it . That

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water is looking at me and I'm looking at it . That's

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all , that's happening .

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I do get more of that like cinnamon

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candy flavor on the finish after

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the heat kind of dissipates .

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It's just a little bit perplexing to have such a crazy

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nose and such a simple

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mouth feel . You

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know , like you said , it's quick , it's like one of those

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dissolving mints that just kind of hits your mouth

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and then it's gone .

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I wonder if there's any science , because we spend

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a lot of time smelling the scotch , if

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it kind of actually

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numbs us , like if it's too hot

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that you don't taste

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it as much as you should , if you

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just like poured it and drank it

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and we didn't do all the whole like smelly-smelly

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.

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Maybe we killed some of those brain cells . Is what you're saying

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? I don't know .

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I'm no scientist officially

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, but I don't know . I wonder

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if we just one day just drink

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it , or maybe this one

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, next time , without smelling it , just drink it

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.

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But that's against the club rules . It's

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not how it works .

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We start our own club . We don't smell the scotch , we don't do that around here

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.

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We don't drink it first , then we smell it , then

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we look at it .

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Just go straight to drinking . Come here , come

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on .

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I feel like there

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is something that I incepted myself

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with the whole fireball thing , because

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I almost can't see past fireball-ish

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flavors . Now I've

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weakened my palate

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in a way .

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I added a few drops of water and I like it better .

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You sure about that ?

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Still fireball .

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Excuse me .

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I think it's much better with water .

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I do like it a lot better with water , just

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by my choking there .

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I think you're just getting Tasting

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nuts . It's still really bitter

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.

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Is it ? It's a little bitter on the palate

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for me , For

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me it's just kind of great fruit , grapefruit

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.

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I didn't want to go to the Malort route , guys , but I

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think there is like grapefruit , that's

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there .

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We couldn't go one pod without you bringing

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up the Malort huh .

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You heard it here folks Fireball

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and Malort Official tasting toast .

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And that one's going to buy the scotch .

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We've given more advertising .

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I think the nose and the palate have changed

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with a little bit of water . For me , the nose has gotten

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less sweet and now it's a little

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bit more of that furniture , polish or

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like new leather .

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It smells like pledge , yeah , and you

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like it more with the water , yeah . So

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everybody that's trollied it with water , likes it more .

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I haven't been smelling it . It smells

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very .

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You haven't been trying it with the water ?

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No , I'm smelling it .

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You've been over there for like 15 minutes .

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I actually like it less with the water . I actually prefer

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it straight . For

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me I kind of enjoyed the overpowering

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sweetness , the cloningness

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of the flavor , and adding

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water to me just kind of just melted

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it out too much . I

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didn't even add that much but yeah , I kind

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of preferred it just full , intense

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.

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Yeah .

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I'm weird like that .

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It is two different scotches , I feel like

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with water . But I

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wouldn't say it got more exciting

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with water , just got different

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, just turned a corner , yeah .

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I think it's getting more interesting with the water . Personally , it's gotten

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more earthy . For me , I think the taste is

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better with water .

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Yeah , taste is water is

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better with water , but the nose is

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.

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Less interesting .

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Less interesting yeah , yeah , I

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just added water and I'll agree with you , andrew

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. Yeah , it's , there's still

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the sweetness layer , but

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earthy , herbal .

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Those are good words , those are words that I felt Like

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rosemary is kind of something that popped into my head .

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Fire did I ?

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Yeah , what I'm liking about adding a little

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bit of water is it just changed the way that

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it hits my palate . I think it was so

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fireball-esque , it was hot . It

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was so much hot , so much heat , so

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much cinnamon in it that my

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mouth instantly salivated every

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time I was getting a drink in . So

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it was almost like lubricating the scotch

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and letting it just

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slide down , where now just a little bit of water

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just opens up in my mouth a little bit .

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Nice . Thank you , it

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was metal militia , but now it's like

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a toned down , more

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refined metal militia

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.

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Now it's mellow militia

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.

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That's beautiful , that's poetry .

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Maloche .

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We just lost all of our viewers , maloche .

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I got a really weird one , so

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it's not the celery thing . You

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smell it with water in there and it's almost

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like holding vegetables up to your nose . Radishy

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, is that ?

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Oh , yeah , for sure , Like

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fresh sliced radishes . Yeah , definitely

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. Wow , that's

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a really good note .

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I mean , honestly , I feel like I'm drinking a different scotch

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in you guys , like I'm getting none of this .

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I know I'm having a hard time as well . I

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mean , when you say it I get a little bit

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of it , but it's definitely like you've

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got to hunt for it . I

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think it's not giving you anything no .

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I definitely do get the citrus notes , though , like orange

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rind yeah for sure .

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I got that for sure , it's not like a big

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note , but it's definitely there

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on the edges of the palate . If

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it says radishes in the packaging , I'm going

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to walk at it .

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That would be so chill .

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For me though , yeah , I don't know . I just liked it a

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little bit more . It was like syrupy and kind of heavy

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, and I actually preferred that out of this particular

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scotch . Well , I don't add water

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.

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I wonder , though , if it's necessarily

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the water that you added or the time

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since we

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started . That's a good question , maybe

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it's your idea .

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You added a lot of water . I added a lot of water , but

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look how cloudy it got .

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You have more scotch now than you had at

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the beginning .

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That looks like kombucha .

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It looks like a French saison beer .

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I do that a lot . It does look like

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a farmhouse beer .

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I've never seen it cloudy like that , which I think is the

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non-chilfiltre thing , Non-chilfiltre yeah , I've

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never seen it actually happen .

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You're drinking that ?

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Yeah , it's good for you .

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It's good for you . I

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don't know if it's with the water or the time , but it's gotten

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more earthy , more vegetal .

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I got a little bit more herbaceousness

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. For me it was more lavender

15:06

, fresher herbs , but I

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don't necessarily like that . I

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preferred the heavy citrus syrup

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flavors that I was getting earlier and

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a little bit of the cinnamon . I have to admit I do

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like fireball on occasions . Knew

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it , this will

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be my last scotch call Signing

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off .

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He also didn't say on occasion .

15:29

He said on occasions .

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You're a lover and a fighter . Yes

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, have a sweet short adjoin .

15:36

Oh no , yeah , with this

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much water , when it turns into

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kombucha

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it is truly like it

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gets floral and herbal and

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vinegary A little bit . Yeah , you taste

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like water , yeah .

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Well , that's because there's more water than scotch in there , I was just hunting

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.

15:53

I was wanting to see how far I

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could push , in that I was looking at you judging

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you as you do Because

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of what you did . You're a mad man , and

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now I must drink it .

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Any guesses on ?

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region Space side . It's

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a very confident space side . It's

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a big region .

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No Head shakes from

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Nathan .

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For as many scotches as I've drank , I have zero

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comfort guessing location yeah

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, I'm kind of stumped Region and age .

16:26

It's like a total shit show yeah .

16:28

Because there's so many that trick you into that You're like , oh

16:30

, this is an islay , for sure , and then it's a highland , so

16:33

the guess is hard yeah .

16:36

I will say the reason I said space side is because they tend

16:38

to be fruitier . I picked

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up on a lot of fruit .

16:42

So there's a little method to your madness .

16:44

Yeah , oh excuse me , season yeah

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.

16:49

When do you drink kombucha ? Every

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?

16:52

day , never , you're right In a cave . If we work

16:54

, this is we work .

16:56

The season is we work , yeah , every

16:58

day . Yeah , got bangs , you

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have bangs and you work , and we work . And

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this is your scotch Just post

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Post yoga .

17:08

This feels like a spring scotch to me , because

17:11

the fruit , the fruit , but also , like Evan

17:13

said , the lavender , the herbs .

17:15

Yeah .

17:16

Easter milk chocolate Like in blue radishes

17:18

.

17:19

Tuesday scotch in spring . I

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think you know you're

17:23

just trying to get to Wednesday and

17:26

it's Tuesday

17:28

, it's Tuesday .

17:30

There's nothing you can do about it . It's not even a season .

17:32

It's a day of the week yeah Somebody

17:36

said , the worst day of the week .

17:37

Yeah , but in the best season

17:39

of the year , arguably Spring

17:42

.

17:45

The consolation prize .

17:46

Yeah , I'm going to say Highland

17:48

11 . Wow .

17:52

Bold and strong , alex .

17:53

The thing is it's not a bad scotch

17:55

. No bad notes that we've

17:57

kind of an enigma .

17:58

It's interesting , it's very interesting .

18:03

I feel like you would use this . Maybe

18:06

it's using like a blend , like

18:08

it's from Johnny Walker

18:10

blend or something like that .

18:11

Could it be a blended scotch Dave

18:14

?

18:14

No .

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No One thing . Am I a guy who would bring a blend

18:18

? Is the question . I don't know .

18:19

Which we don't know , not even know that we don't know

18:21

you .

18:21

We don't know you , we don't know you , we don't know you , we don't

18:23

know you , we don't know you , we don't know you . We don't

18:27

know you , we

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don't know you . Justальной does create you as an illusion . Tenard

18:35

blades , which one Fine Wrong no-transcript make me believe this is an Islay , so I'm ruling that out no , personally , which means it's probably an Islay and not Campbelltown Exactly

18:37

.

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I was going to guess Campbelltown because , there's only like three

18:39

distilleries in there . There's no chance in hell

18:42

that it is , but it's a lowland either .

18:44

So yeah , I guess I'll say Highland

18:46

, I'm going to say Highland , I'll say Sky , I'll

18:48

say Highland from the Highlands .

18:50

I'll say Sky . That gives you two

18:52

choices . Do you want to guess a distillery , Evan ? No

18:54

yeah .

18:57

I don't think . I don't think Islands , I

18:59

think it's like a aerospace side .

19:02

I do think it's 50%

19:05

or above , especially

19:07

knowing who bought it .

19:09

Yeah , what's

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our ABV ? Oh , you're already know .

19:13

Oh , he knows . So something else to step in . Nathan

19:16

, here it comes

19:18

, drop that

19:20

69 . Yeah , hey 666

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.

19:26

I'm going to say 47 . Oh , let's

19:29

move on , let's say 56 .

19:31

Yeah , I'm going to go like 59 .

19:34

59 , dude .

19:36

I'm going to go 52 .

19:38

Why not ?

19:39

It feels like a 52 .

19:42

I really want to like this . Maybe it's a mixer

19:44

scotch Like .

19:46

Well , you really want to like this . Does that mean you

19:48

don't like this ?

19:50

No , I mean , I don't mind it , but I guess

19:52

you added 50%

19:54

water for it .

19:56

So , half of your experience

19:58

60 to 70% water .

20:00

You were drinking Like your

20:02

ABV on your scotch is

20:04

like it's kombucha .

20:05

It's like 20% .

20:07

It's like 20% . No

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, it was Coors Light . I

20:12

added that much water .

20:13

I added in two different sessions .

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No , no , we saw , we saw that that was a lot of water

20:18

.

20:19

And because I wanted to pull more out of it , because it

20:21

feels like it's well-made and

20:24

it's delicious , but

20:26

I wanted there to be more

20:28

going on . I

20:30

wanted to pull something extra out

20:32

of it , so I added the water the

20:34

first time , thinking like there would be more there

20:37

. And

20:39

then I was like , well , maybe I need to send it and

20:42

uh , send it full , send Gatorade

20:45

, and um , there was

20:47

. I mean , it was still drinkable

20:49

even at 0.5%

20:51

.

20:51

ABV Technically , yeah , he's

20:54

drinking up . Actually , he's a great compliment right now .

20:56

The more I drink it . You sound

20:58

like a disappointed father that's trying to find

21:00

a good thing about their kids' , like baseball

21:02

game or something .

21:03

Oh yeah , that's pretty good .

21:05

Yeah , yeah , like

21:08

you don't . You know they didn't play well

21:10

, they struck out . Yeah , fucking struck

21:12

out .

21:14

They ran the wrong way on the on the base they

21:16

dropped the pop up yeah .

21:17

And you're starting with like well , you show up

21:19

, yeah , um , it's a nice day

21:21

.

21:23

You have your shoes on the right feet . Yeah yeah

21:25

, they're not tight . It's a night in the

21:27

sun's out , we're not .

21:29

That's amazing .

21:30

That's not the Scotch's fault , though that's

21:32

not the Scotch's fault because you added so much water

21:34

.

21:35

I mean , do you guys have more to say

21:37

about the Scotch ? Because

21:39

you guys are shitting on me for adding

21:42

water ?

21:44

to mine , but like use your air .

21:47

But are you guys happy with who you are

21:49

?

21:51

Like in general , yeah , in general

21:53

, and also as like

21:55

non-water adders no .

21:57

I added a few drops of water . I'm very happy

22:00

with my decision Causes conflict .

22:02

Oh no , what , what ?

22:04

causes conflict , it only causes conflict if

22:06

you ratio it , 50% water

22:08

, which

22:10

I have nothing further add to the Scotch . I'm

22:12

just going to keep railing on Vern for adding too much water .

22:14

This is a very 2020 Scotch .

22:16

In this situation . Vern is the kid who dropped

22:18

the pop fly , and doesn't ? It struck out

22:20

a bunch of times and we're all the disappointed dads

22:23

, Disappointed and

22:25

burnt .

22:27

And that kid's not allowed to say like well , what have you

22:29

done with your life ? That's

22:31

the cackle of dads .

22:33

No , it's not about us right now . We're talking

22:35

about you right now , like a good dad Like

22:37

a good dad

22:40

.

22:40

What are we working ?

22:41

with yeah , do we want to rate it ? Are we

22:43

ready to rate this puppy ?

22:45

Yeah , okay .

22:46

We're going to start . We're going

22:48

to start with you , Vern .

22:51

That's the only place we could start .

22:53

You have to go first . 6.9 .

22:55

Oh , nice , nice Everything . I

22:58

think it already has it's 0.9 Scotch

23:00

past the class

23:03

. It

23:05

did no extra credit , but

23:07

it was still present

23:09

. It was all

23:12

it showed up . It was a nice day . Can

23:15

I interrupt ?

23:16

Because you were stoked when you

23:18

saw this Scotch on your class roster

23:20

. At the beginning you said

23:22

something like you

23:24

.

23:24

I agree with Andrew , you loved it .

23:26

No , who are you ? Check the podcast you

23:28

loved ? Yeah , rewind the tape .

23:30

He was smelling it . He was about to give this a 10

23:32

on this on the nose .

23:35

Yeah , but then you .

23:37

Scotch only goes so far before you

23:39

need .

23:39

I mean , I didn't water it down until

23:42

, but

23:44

, like we all remember , the nose is great

23:46

and the nose only

23:48

gets you so far , as they say .

23:50

So it's like a good first impression Scotch , but

23:53

it was so . It was like a great meeting great

23:55

encounter , engaging , and

23:59

then we always talk about .

24:01

You know a party ? What guest at the party ? So

24:03

this is the guest that showed up shook hands

24:05

, was really cool and you're like , wow , that guy is

24:07

super cool . And then he got drunk and

24:10

he ended up being a fucking asshole .

24:11

Yeah , I mean no , not

24:14

full asshole , but Okay , without

24:17

the fucking just asshole . Honestly

24:19

, not even that was just like a

24:22

disappointment , you know , like

24:24

he didn't add anything to the party

24:26

. He ate all the nice

24:29

. He ate all the best appetizers

24:33

. He ate the whole

24:35

salmon ball , the shrimp .

24:37

The shrimp yeah .

24:40

The double eggs , the devil eggs

24:42

, and didn't show up with anything . And

24:45

you're like eat half and put it back . I didn't

24:47

show up with anything .

24:48

Everybody was excited when he walked in the door

24:50

and then it just yeah , he

24:52

was like I'll dip the chicken wings .

24:54

It was big at the beginning and then it just there

24:57

was nowhere to hang your hat on a scotch . It

24:59

was just a nub Every

25:01

time you tried to hang your hat and just kept falling off

25:03

the whole .

25:04

Okay .

25:05

And and . I mean

25:07

, I feel like 6.9 is just a little generous

25:10

, because the nose was good

25:12

. Okay , nose was good

25:14

. I'll give you that there was a lot to do with

25:16

the nose and

25:18

there was just nothing else after that

25:20

. Okay , other than

25:23

like I mean , I guess as a mixer

25:25

or something like that , you could .

25:27

All right , 6.9

25:30

from Vern , I'll go next . The

25:33

first thing I always think is , like you know , would

25:35

I have this at home ? Does it mean

25:37

my home test ? It

25:40

doesn't , because it was just a little bit too

25:43

fireball-y for

25:45

my taste and again

25:47

, I couldn't kind of see past the fireball

25:50

, even after the water . The water did make

25:52

it better , I think it did for me , but

25:55

it wasn't my favorite profile

25:57

, I think , even to begin with . But yeah

26:00

, just I don't

26:03

know , I made

26:05

fun of Vern a ton , but I also

26:07

kind of agree with him , like I think

26:09

there we go . So I think I

26:11

am actually going to give it a 6.8 .

26:13

Oh my God , I hate you so much Wow

26:16

.

26:16

Can I change my rating ? No , you can't

26:18

, andrew .

26:21

You guys are wrong . Best

26:24

no dip , but also I'm just a contrarian

26:26

. So now I feel , like I have to defend this scotch . I

26:31

liked it . I evaluate

26:33

scotches the same way . Would I buy this ? Yes , I would

26:35

. I would invite this to my party , aka

26:38

Bar Cart .

26:40

Even if it was somebody that you knew would

26:42

turn unruly . Well

26:45

, I guess , in your opinion , what are we talking about ? This scotch ? I

26:47

don't think this scotch was unruly Okay you're not

26:49

in this boat .

26:53

No , I'm not in your boat . Okay .

26:55

So you think this guest showed up to the party and they added a lot

26:57

to the party and they stuck around

26:59

and helped clean up .

27:00

This , I think , is the guest that

27:03

showed up

27:05

and I was immediately intrigued

27:07

and I couldn't get myself away

27:09

from other guests as the host to

27:12

go find out more about this guest

27:15

. Do you want it ? I want to learn more about this

27:17

guest and I'm

27:19

definitely inviting this guy to the next party . Okay

27:22

, I don't know . My last sip

27:25

of it was my favorite , oh that

27:27

says a lot . I

27:30

really liked it . It was really interesting

27:32

. It was complex to me

27:34

. Very

27:37

different nose and palate , very

27:39

different after water I didn't put quite

27:41

as much water as Vern did . Nobody

27:43

did .

27:47

I had . I think about what I put in . I wish they would make these

27:49

glasses bigger

27:51

. Three ounces is

27:53

not enough . You need a spiked glass .

27:55

Everyone else gets a Glen .

27:56

Caron .

27:57

Next time Vern just bring your hydro flask , a

27:59

two-handle , glen Caron .

28:03

Yeah , I dug it . I

28:06

want to try it again . I guess I don't need to add

28:08

anything . I'll give it a solid eight .

28:11

Dave , eight is also the number

28:13

that I was entertaining . I wish

28:16

that , like you said , I wish that the

28:18

nose and the palate lined up a little bit more , but

28:20

I did get some of the orange citrus

28:22

kind of notes that I got from the nose

28:25

. Yeah , I enjoyed

28:27

it . It didn't blow me away , but I did

28:29

dig it , nathan

28:32

.

28:33

Yeah , I think you know , going

28:35

off the what I invite this guy

28:38

to the party , I would say

28:40

yes , I would have this bottle in my cabinet

28:42

. It was interesting enough

28:44

that I would like to revisit it . I

28:48

didn't get the fireball notes

28:51

, probably because I haven't had fireball since the

28:53

last time I threw up in high school . But

28:55

I did get just that touch

28:57

of the hot tamale which I like . I

29:00

like that kind of cinnamon sweetness

29:02

, so it didn't . It didn't

29:04

lean so far into like

29:06

alcohol fireball

29:08

plastic bottle territory

29:10

for me . It stayed in glass

29:13

bottle classy . Like

29:15

Andrew said , I didn't get to know

29:17

this person enough , but I'm intrigued

29:20

so I would go back to

29:22

it . I'm going to give it a 7.7 . Chris

29:26

.

29:27

I've been thinking about this . I'm

29:30

excited to be back . So I'm not trying to be

29:32

like 9.5 , you know , just because I'm excited

29:34

to be here . So I haven't had good scotch in

29:36

a while . No , I like

29:38

it . I think it's interesting . I

29:42

drink it again 8.2

29:44

.

29:46

Evan Nice . Unfortunately

29:49

, the scotch suffers from the

29:52

fact that I'm looking at a table full of other

29:54

wonderful , delicious scotches that I really

29:56

really enjoy . Log of Wulun 16

29:58

is staring at me right now and

30:01

the thing that I like about those scotches

30:03

particularly , you know , the more

30:05

Pete forward ones is they're more complicated . This

30:08

was a little too simple for me , a little

30:10

too . One note we

30:12

couldn't really dig much out of it and

30:15

yeah , to the point where you guys are looking

30:18

for something else , like I just don't think anything else

30:20

was there , so

30:22

I'm going to give it . I mean , I still enjoyed it . It

30:24

was still a well-made scotch , so I'll

30:26

give it a 7 . Yeah

30:28

, I'll give it a 7 .

30:30

Alex . So

30:33

I thought I was going to have to verne . He said 6.9

30:36

. I was like , yeah , you're right , 6.8 . And then he

30:38

said nub . And I was like , yeah , you're

30:40

right , nub . And

30:47

I picked up a lot of like the

30:50

milk , chocolate and radishes and I was like that's really weird

30:52

. There was some

30:54

weird , the nose was cool , the

30:57

palette was weird , the

30:59

water made it better . Yeah

31:02

, 6.8 .

31:04

I feel like that should be bumped to 7 , though , because

31:06

you got a malort note .

31:10

Every month .

31:12

Like a.2 handicap if you get a malort

31:14

note it's worth.2

31:17

, right ?

31:17

All right , you want to know where we're at .

31:19

Yeah , yeah . So

31:22

you said this was an angry scotch 7.4

31:24

. 7.4 as a club .

31:28

That's kind of higher than I expected .

31:30

So this was how'd you say ? I feel like you said it

31:32

well , Like this is a divisive scotch

31:35

or an angry scotch .

31:36

I said that this scotch causes

31:38

conflict , conflict .

31:40

Yeah .

31:46

And .

31:46

Nathan said and Nathan said

31:49

enigma . So

31:51

I don't know if we broke the enigma code

31:53

tonight , but who

31:55

said it was you , andrew . I want to give credit

31:57

where credit's due . Maybe Enigma , dave

32:01

. What are we drinking ?

32:04

No , oh that's why what

32:06

it's

32:09

in a southern cask Wow

32:12

.

32:12

Very interesting .

32:14

So it's the . It was the graphics .

32:16

Yeah , you definitely went for the graphics , didn't you

32:18

? And it sucked you in .

32:20

Southern cask finish 50% .

32:22

Aaron is islands .

32:23

Yeah it's , it's hot , it's an island

32:25

. It's the only distillery on a tiny

32:27

little island , so I was pretty close to my

32:29

skirt . Southern is like a French

32:31

dessert wine and

32:34

it's about the same color as a scotch Sunflower

32:37

yellow .

32:38

So for those at home , the

32:41

bottle is what

32:44

would you call the shape , dave ? Is

32:46

there a good way to ? That's

32:48

amazing . It's very untraditional

32:51

scotch bottle .

32:53

It's undescribable , yeah . It's like

32:55

Got some notches on the top . I don't

32:57

know how you would describe it .

32:58

It's got a short nubby

33:00

mouth on it .

33:03

Like a stubborn , yeah , stubborn .

33:05

That's like the old . Uh , that was a tasting

33:08

Beer stubby bottles

33:10

.

33:10

But what , what I think is really cool is

33:12

the kind of honey color

33:15

honey mustard kind of

33:17

uh label and box

33:19

that it came in is super

33:21

cool . And different very different

33:23

, oh also 50%

33:27

alcohol .

33:29

Who gets 50 tomorrow ? I said

33:31

52 . Yeah , you're . I said 56

33:33

.

33:33

I was way up .

33:35

Yeah , do you

33:37

want me to read the tasting notes on the bottle

33:39

?

33:40

Hell yeah .

33:42

Satelene casque finish

33:44

Uh , Ferdinand . Notes of

33:46

apricot and

33:49

pear combined

33:52

with a touch of nutmeg and

33:54

honey sweetness . Somebody said honey

33:56

, but otherwise we blew that A richly rewarding

33:59

partnership between Aaron Singlemall

34:01

and the glorious Satelene

34:03

casque .

34:05

Wow .

34:07

Glad we had . Vern read that Apricot

34:09

.

34:10

I picked it because it seemed , based

34:12

on the description , color and everything like it would

34:14

be a good summer scotch it

34:17

gives summer vibes , yeah , and

34:19

then visually . And the nose

34:21

also provided heavy summer vibes

34:23

for me . Palette

34:26

, not a summery . You

34:28

know , like a goth kid during summer

34:30

you know Great

34:33

note .

34:35

Well , we just had an Aaron couple

34:37

months ago .

34:38

Yeah , we did .

34:41

I feel like I really liked that .

34:43

Yeah , we loved that one .

34:45

That's why , they have five

34:48

varieties , and this one was the one that felt

34:50

the most summery , I think different years , or they buy

34:52

colors .

34:53

They're all different finishes . Yeah , they're all different finishes

34:55

.

34:57

Okay , their first snow was

34:59

apricot . Yeah , apricot

35:01

.

35:02

It should have been for me like it was very

35:04

citrus forward , not apricot forward

35:06

, but maybe they're , I don't know like . Also

35:08

haven't like given a lot of time to smelling

35:11

apricots recently .

35:12

So I'll have to dive back in . Apricots

35:15

are like a part of my childhood . I feel like I'm pretty in tune

35:17

with apricots . You can read my book

35:20

, my Fourth Coming . What's

35:22

that the title ?

35:24

Apricots and Names .

35:26

In tune with apricots . Yeah

35:28

, it's called the Nub Chronicles . It's called

35:31

the Nub Chronicles . More on the science-based

35:33

side of apricots .

35:34

Does anybody know what region that is ? Do you know Andrew ?

35:36

It's Highland because it's an island , okay

35:40

.

35:41

I will say I'm not a graphic designer , but I

35:43

very much like the bottle in the packaging . Yeah

35:45

, it's gorgeous .

35:47

Dave hit us man .

35:49

Amazing , there's Braille on the label

35:51

too .

35:52

Just the shape of the bottle and the label itself

35:54

and the font . It's very visually pleasing .

35:57

Chris , you're not the graphic designer . Yeah

35:59

, and the coordinates , the color story

36:01

is really nice .

36:04

That peachy cream color with

36:07

the black is great . Yeah

36:10

, I just think the packaging is really solid . It's

36:13

not overdone at all . It's really

36:15

tasteful . Yeah

36:17

, I wish it tasted . As I don't have a

36:19

problem with the Scotch , I did like it . You

36:22

gave it a 8, . Yeah , I mean

36:24

there was more in the tank for . I just wish

36:27

it lined up with the nose a little more .

36:29

What was the price point ? It was low 70s

36:32

.

36:33

Okay , before tax I was like after

36:35

taxes 80 bucks .

36:40

Any final thoughts anybody

36:42

?

36:44

I guess it makes sense , because I'm not

36:46

a huge fan of like port finished Scotches

36:49

or any of the like , you know the sweeter

36:51

finished Scotches . So having a French

36:53

dessert wine finished Scotch was

36:56

not up my alley , does it ?

36:57

say how long it was in . Just

36:59

as the Any of the casks .

37:02

It was and they put finished in

37:04

quotes Fascinating

37:07

, it's

37:09

liked by our master blender to be quote

37:12

finished in South Elcliné

37:14

wine casks sourced from

37:16

an artisan producer of this iconic

37:19

Bordeaux sweet white

37:21

wine .

37:22

Fascinating , it's

37:24

actually a sweet white wine , more tasting notes online

37:27

, that kind of dip into our trigger words , that we were

37:29

using Fireball .

37:33

Bitter .

37:35

Radish .

37:37

Did someone say salty .

37:41

No Hot Toys Fireball

37:43

and Radish .

37:45

Instead of knob , there was nip .

37:50

Nip , which is Gaelic for nub

37:52

. Don't look

37:54

at it . Look at it .

37:58

Fresh herbs . Someone

38:00

said rosemary , oh

38:02

yeah , andrew didn't Job

38:05

. That's pretty

38:08

much it .

38:09

Yeah .

38:13

Well , dave , thanks for bringing this Scotch .

38:15

Thanks , dave , this very divisive

38:17

Scotch .

38:18

Thanks , dave , you

38:21

got it .

38:22

That's wrap , alright

38:25

.