Today we taste and review Copper City Bourbon and compare it to Wild Turkey 101.
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Big YES to Balcones Rye. Just bought last week as a birthday gift to myself and am not disappointed. Really liked the lingering tobacco taste.
Got the chance to mooch some laphroig 10 oban 10 and one more I can’t spell. I was impressed. New to scotch. Would laphroig lore be a good buy.
is it me or did Daniel age like 50yr since episode 1….. not meant as an insult just concerned about his health.
Had it
Hated it
Rex just pulled a Ri*BUUURRPP*ck Sanchez on us
Next dry week should be Kool aid reviews for the cult… I mean tribe lol 😉
Rex you look like Pippi Longstocking in that stupid ass ponytail
Glenfarclas 105 is cask strength I believe and is also quite affordable and available.
Credit for giving a qualified response to the unanswereable ( for Daniel) question. I’d have a hard time answering too it all but lived at The Whiskey Vault….
I’m getting notes of general tsao and MSG.
On the Rex “Appleseed” wagon
Arizona is the Copper State. I got that one recently and is pretty good.
MGP has 5 standard bourbon mash bills:
Corn: 99%, Barley Malt: 1%
Corn: 60%, Rye: 36%, Barley Malt: 4%
Corn: 75%, Rye: 21%, Barley Malt: 4%
Corn: 51%, Barley Malt: 49%
Corn: 51%, Wheat: 45%, Barley Malt: 4%
(For those of us nerdy enough to care)
Serious question (and not meant to ruffle any feathers): Are you guys starting to get a little bored with the Vault reviews, considering everything else you have going on?
I hope not. I love your reviews (and think everyone else does too). The other stuff is fun too, but I primarily tune in for the reviews. Keep it up!
Cheers!
With Chinese food I choose Eagle Rare or Macallen 12
Rex Ruins Everything?!? Lol! How do you REALLY feel Daniel? Lol!
What’s your favorite (easy to get) bourbon ? I mean normal stuff like knob creek.. eagle rare.. wild turkey.. most of the bourbon you guys review i will never find in Germany.
So it’s my day off and I saved up some bucks and bought several whiskeys today. I found blantons (been a biatch to find since hipsters and John wick F.u. k Reeves. Being a new tribe member and absolute “cultist” I have of course bought my first bottle of dalmore 12. As also a bottle of Johnny walker green. Giving them all a good chew I have a honest question to ask. Am I wrong for liking blended over single malt?
Shenanigans: “Rex you seriously just admitted a huge mooch mishap. Not knowing why they call the kick in’ chicken’ 101 is a huge missed mooch moment because their are lesser abv wild turkeys and whenever given. Choice one should always partake of the 101 for pure alcohol value lol.” #nerdoversemioldtrailerparkwannabesumowrestlerhairguy
Ledaig……Yes that’s my middle ground whisky! It’s like the demilitarized zone between Islay and a Highland malt! A reviewer one time called it a Islay wannabe and was trash it for not making the mark…..it is it’s own mark, thank you very much!
I get Honey Garlic Chicken on the nose mixed with fried egg roll and just a trace amount of General Tso’s…
its a *VERY* *NICE* whisky…
Ledaig 10 or something else?
Does burping affect your whiskey nosing /tasting? If so Rex’s notes on this whiskey should be suspect
#penishair hahaha
Glenfarclas 105 is their cask-strength and it should be available at Total Wine
Suggestion for Daniel and Rex: do videos with comparisons of several different gifted Whiskeys from Magnificent Bastards. This should fix your problem of having a huge backlog while also clearing the way to have more mainstream Scotches. Thanks love your videos!
You guys have gone over several times about how climate can affect an aging process, but does climate have as much an affect on air drying/seasoning a barrel? For example barrels that you guys will be using in TX and Copper City in AZ may use vs something from say Louisiana or South Florida vs. wet Northwest vs. Midwest that has extreme winters and summers like Chicago or St. Louis.
I Have always known Tempe Az, as Milk Town, on the same note could you make a Spirit out of Milk or even the grain Kopi Luwak style
this is my new favorite hobby: questing for those hidden dust covered gems Daniel mentions….on a completely unrelated note I have a question: how often do you suppose one can walk into their local purveyors of spirits and dig around through their scotch stock without actually buying anything before they are flagged? just asking for informational purposes of course…not that I would personally be acquainted with such questionable means of daily activity…..
Rexs cult rant should be on a shirt. Also Rex and Daniel have you ever thought about trying to do distillery tours on the show or doing it maybe on the patreon?
To Rex, have you tried the Glenfarclas 105, it clocks in at 60% or 120 proof, the closest thing to a Glenfarclas Cask strength?
How about a whisky and pizza pairing?
I appreciate your guys sentiments on favorite whiskies. An exhaustive list of my list of my “favorites” would probably include roughly 75 % of the whiskies I’ve ever purchased. There are so many great whiskies out there that I enjoy for different reasons. It’s easier and more realistic to say, this is what I am enjoying now. Cheers.
I did it! Last week I had my fist mooch! At a bar in a pretty fancy hotel they had a decent selection of whiskeys and my eyes fell on JW Blue label and I asked for the price and it was $10 for a shot. I asked for a small sample to make up my mind and the bartender, which obviously were new in the business, gave me a free shot. And I even was the first one to crack the bottle! It was very ok, not worth the price so I went for a double shot of Glenmorangie original instead.
What’s up with that unicorn ponytail?
Top 10 Whiskey and Chinese food pairings
I think Rex should try pigtails out for the next review.
I have actually found a website selling pappy at retail. Keeping it to myself for now. #sorrynotsorry
Why does Rex have a penis coming out of the back of his head?
Dude – I’ve been sippin Ledaig for the last week, and couldn’t agree more. Mull has something special.
Your cultivating a cult that isn’t a cult but is a cult but it’s a cult above your average cult. Cult
#CHADWEEK!! Bitches..
Maybe not a cult, but definitely a wood factory.
Can there be a rule, no eating food in the whiskey vault??