@@TheBlackIdentety Why would you call me a clown? no reason to insult someone. I'm just reporting the prices Japan, a year ago. What kind of horrible person are you?
This was the 1st Japanese whiskey i ever had, thanks to it being an honerable mention on one of those early "top 10" lists on this channel as a recommend.
Honestly haven’t been watching yalls channel for a long time cause i stopped drinking whiskey for a long time but this popped up on my feed and this is the only bottle i have. Got it because i celebrated a sale at my old job and remembered back when i was religiously watching in 2017 cheers
I just bought a bottle of this Hibiki today. I can’t wait to try some tonight. I’m starting to expand my palate of whiskies. Thanks for the video guys. Awesome. Cheers
Love, love, love me some Hibiki neat! Thanks for doing this one. Suggestion: freeze some fresh blackberries and use a few as ice for your Hibiki… something magical (to me) happens every time.
Do they have to be freshly frozen or do you use just a bag of frozen blackberries? This sounds really good and just found a bottle this morning for a decent price 😁
@@nudge_1157I have used fresh frozen, but I see no reason why bagged frozen wouldn’t work. I just think it would bleed a bit more, and maaaaaaaybe overpower the taste a bit. Give it a try and let me know how you liked it… I am curious!
I was in a bowling league when I was 14 (1992) with some of my best friends. We were all Faith No More fans and named our team Jizzlobber after the song on their Angel Dust album. I knew what Jizzlobber meant back then....but my 12 year old friends on my team didn't! The name stuck the entire year and even won a trophy at the end of the year where they called us up by our team name!! LOL
I live in Japan. Hibiki used to sparsely allocated, but now this has disappeared off the shelves here in the last 5 years and the price has nearly doubled. I believe the smoke is coming from the Hakushu distillery. At ¥15,000 (＄100), I’m choosing the slightly less expensive, no age statement Yamazaki. The Yamazaki 12 year is nearly double the price of Harmony and that’s a not a contest.
There is an entire floor of a building in Shinbashi, near all the big name shops, that has an amazing collection all for sale. Hibiki was reasonably priced there for regular, 12yr and 30yr were more outrageous.
@@jordanebacherJapanese lacks many of the regulations that other Whiskey producing countries have, so there are several Japanese companies that unfortunately blend or wholly import and relabel imported whiskeys as Japanese. However, for the premium brands like Hibiki or Yamazaki there's no evidence that they do that. They are distilled exclusively in Japan.
I just paid 67.99 for it. Never had it before but Costco doesn’t get them that often. So when I seen it and knowing they only had a couple boxes I grabbed it. They had the 100th anniversary was 127.99 but I heard it was the same juice but had a pretty bottle and case. I just wanted the juice. I’ll try it this weekend.
It's been about 7 or 8 years since I first had this but it's still one of my favourites. Too bad it's so expensive, I just can't really justify it most of the time.
This was my second ever Japanese whisky. The first being Hibiki Blossom Harmony. Which I am head over heels for. But Japanese Harmony is very good and very different from Blossom Harmony.
I've been building an Infinity Bottle in a Hibiki bottle for a while now, and I agree, it's the perfect bottle for it. I've been writting the names on the side, but didn't think to add the levels. maybe next time.
This was my introduction to Japanese whiskey a few years ago at an awesome bar in New Orleans. (Bartonique). Have to be the only person who tases it and thinks Cajun food. 😂 I recently found this at Sam's Club in Illinois for $34.81 a bottle. My wife's suggestion to buy the last 3 they had was very well received.
Love yalls videos! I had the opportunity to visit the Nikka distillery here in Japan by Sendai and what a great experience that was. As you alluded … their roots are from Scotch with their founder traveling to Scotland to learn how to make whiskey and bringing back that knowledge and put their spin on it. Its a beautiful area and facility with a cool story.
My s.o gave me this as a a birthday gift couple of weeks back. Really nice whisky, smooth and gentle to drink with a lot of flavors there if you take the time to enjoy it. Great to have when you arent in the mood for an aggressive scotch
I’ve had regular Hibiki, 17, 21, Blossom, Masters Select and “old”. My favorite is 17 and least favorite Masters Select, “old” was too different to call it the same. It was very oaky, but makes sense seeing how it was the first iteration of Hibiki.
I've had Suntory Toki and I've had SO many people tell me to try this. I have Yamazaki 12, and Hibiki available at the liquor store right down the road from me. I'd love to have either, I just don't know if I can justify ~120 for either right now.
Do you guys have a playlist of all the quintessential whiskeys? I know you had the wall of all of them but I never could find a playlist easily locating them.
There is a guy who makes a single malt. From Japan. Dude has been eating the EXACT SAME MEALS...every day, breakfast lunch and dinner ( different meals lol, just the same breakfast every day. The dame lunch, etc , etc.) He has the same meal to maintain his taste. He's been doing it for like 30 years at this point. I tried it. It was the first whiskey...or wiskey....ther is a difference and i can't remember which one this is .... point is that it was the first whiskey I've ever had that I enjoyed.
I actually want to try this too see if it’s true that Japanese whiskey is really just toned down scotch whiskey that can be enjoyed from people who don’t particularly like the taste of whiskey
Haha, Bill was drinking the 17YO in the movie. Although the N.A.S has improved over the years the 17YO and the 21YO are next level. Have you guys tasted the Masters Select version of the Hibiki No Age Statement yet? Richer and bolder than the standard.
Do you think Japanese whisky is better drunk at room temp? I usually put the bottle in the freezer for a few hours before drinking because it gives it a really nice mouth feel and the flavour is more interesting as it warms up over time while sipping.
This stuff is brilliant and has unfortunately, skyrocketed $40 in the Canadian market. I’ve seen it in Costco in Washington state for $85 which converted, is a great price.
Nope, God's honest truth. I also got 4 bottles of bowmore 12 for $10 each. Bakers 7 for $10, Jameson 12yr old for $2.50 each, yes two dollars fifty cents each! I go there a lot now. Sometimes I find half price bottles but nothing like I did that one time
Rexxxx. Wrong time slot! But I suppose a review right now is better than waiting for you to get it right, just for it to end up being a Hibiki Harmony review. I would accept a bottle of this if it were gifted to me though. Doesn't even need to be a full bottle, as a matter of fact, I'd prefer it if it was empty. I needs me an infinity bottle.
I love this whisky, but the current price ($100+ a bottle in my area) makes it a really tough purchase. I could get two bottles of Glendronach 12 for the same price!
Hibiki always escapes me with it being above my threshold price. I almost pulled the trigger on it despite myself from your original video, but settled for Santory's Toki as the affordable runner up.
@@t1nt0p I will give it a shot one of these days. Toki isn't THAT bad, lol... just a bit soft if you are used to cask strength bourbons. It is about as good at being japanese whiskey as Jameson is at being irish whiskey.
so in terms of an infinity bottle, wouldn`t adding more and more whiskies cause the same effect as blending, whereas adding too much of something ruin the blend and make it taste flat and boring?
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I bought hibiki for under $50 dollars back in 2016. Now I need a bank loan to afford it and a private investigator to find it. And I live in Japan.
I just forked over 90 dollars for my bottle today. Other stores were asking for 110 to 150, if they even had it.
Dude tell me ab it I remember I used to be able to buy a bottle of Suntory Yamazaki for like 80 bucks, now it’s at least 200 everywhere I go
It's less than a 100 euros here and readily available throughout the year. 🤡
@@TheBlackIdentety Why would you call me a clown? no reason to insult someone. I'm just reporting the prices Japan, a year ago. What kind of horrible person are you?
Just paid $190 CAD for the master select 😅
This was the 1st Japanese whiskey i ever had, thanks to it being an honerable mention on one of those early "top 10" lists on this channel as a recommend.
Same. Back when these were affordable.
It was pretty darn good!
Best tasting sipping whiskey under 100 USD ? I do enjoyed the Toki.
Honestly haven’t been watching yalls channel for a long time cause i stopped drinking whiskey for a long time but this popped up on my feed and this is the only bottle i have. Got it because i celebrated a sale at my old job and remembered back when i was religiously watching in 2017 cheers
This was my first Japanese and to me it is one of the most floral drinks I've ever had. Almost like chewing on potpourri. I enjoyed it very much.
I just bought a bottle of this Hibiki today. I can’t wait to try some tonight. I’m starting to expand my palate of whiskies. Thanks for the video guys. Awesome. Cheers
I always love how Daniel just knows all the things and starts talking about whatever, then Rex is like "so anyway, it has a lemony vanilla" 😂
For me it's Rex's hand gestures making up fanciness to fill in the pauses where he can't think of stuff yet
I was able to buy a 17 year hibiki and man it was amazing. It's not all gone and I'm using the bottle as a decanter
Love, love, love me some Hibiki neat! Thanks for doing this one.
Suggestion: freeze some fresh blackberries and use a few as ice for your Hibiki… something magical (to me) happens every time.
Do they have to be freshly frozen or do you use just a bag of frozen blackberries? This sounds really good and just found a bottle this morning for a decent price 😁
@@nudge_1157I have used fresh frozen, but I see no reason why bagged frozen wouldn’t work. I just think it would bleed a bit more, and maaaaaaaybe overpower the taste a bit.
Give it a try and let me know how you liked it… I am curious!
I was in a bowling league when I was 14 (1992) with some of my best friends. We were all Faith No More fans and named our team Jizzlobber after the song on their Angel Dust album. I knew what Jizzlobber meant back then....but my 12 year old friends on my team didn't! The name stuck the entire year and even won a trophy at the end of the year where they called us up by our team name!! LOL
I live in Japan. Hibiki used to sparsely allocated, but now this has disappeared off the shelves here in the last 5 years and the price has nearly doubled. I believe the smoke is coming from the Hakushu distillery. At ¥15,000 (＄100), I’m choosing the slightly less expensive, no age statement Yamazaki. The Yamazaki 12 year is nearly double the price of Harmony and that’s a not a contest.
Tough to get in Oregon as well. But worth it if you find it!
There is an entire floor of a building in Shinbashi, near all the big name shops, that has an amazing collection all for sale. Hibiki was reasonably priced there for regular, 12yr and 30yr were more outrageous.
I believe hibiki as well as most Japanese whiskeys are not actually made in Japan...
@@jordanebacherJapanese lacks many of the regulations that other Whiskey producing countries have, so there are several Japanese companies that unfortunately blend or wholly import and relabel imported whiskeys as Japanese. However, for the premium brands like Hibiki or Yamazaki there's no evidence that they do that. They are distilled exclusively in Japan.
@@kutter_ttl6786 That’s correct. The non-premium brands are a hot mess of unknowns however.
I just paid 67.99 for it. Never had it before but Costco doesn’t get them that often. So when I seen it and knowing they only had a couple boxes I grabbed it. They had the 100th anniversary was 127.99 but I heard it was the same juice but had a pretty bottle and case. I just wanted the juice. I’ll try it this weekend.
It's been about 7 or 8 years since I first had this but it's still one of my favourites. Too bad it's so expensive, I just can't really justify it most of the time.
ye it's nice, I have one left and it's just been standing in the liquor cabinet for like 3 years or something, but yes it has gotten expensive.
I see on google price of about $80 for what looked like the one they reviewed. But I do see something for $300 and up as well.
@@dctaken That cheap one is atually a really small bottle. The normal size bottle is the $300 one.
I paid $70 (plus WA's ridiculous alcohol sales tax) only about a month ago. It's not easy to find, but I don't consider it expensive?
I remember when these used to be to be 30-60 a bottle. T^T
This was my second ever Japanese whisky. The first being Hibiki Blossom Harmony. Which I am head over heels for. But Japanese Harmony is very good and very different from Blossom Harmony.
One of my favorite bottles im so happy to see it on the channel
I've been building an Infinity Bottle in a Hibiki bottle for a while now, and I agree, it's the perfect bottle for it. I've been writting the names on the side, but didn't think to add the levels. maybe next time.
This was my introduction to Japanese whiskey a few years ago at an awesome bar in New Orleans. (Bartonique). Have to be the only person who tases it and thinks Cajun food. 😂 I recently found this at Sam's Club in Illinois for $34.81 a bottle. My wife's suggestion to buy the last 3 they had was very well received.
Robbery of the century man! Good shit! 😂😂😂
Fook your old girl knows the drill!🔥
Hibiki Harmony is one of my favorites. I get lots of floral notes in the nose then raspberries and other fruit in the pallet. Very light and nice.
I Japan right now picking up some whisky for the boys!
Love yalls videos! I had the opportunity to visit the Nikka distillery here in Japan by Sendai and what a great experience that was. As you alluded … their roots are from Scotch with their founder traveling to Scotland to learn how to make whiskey and bringing back that knowledge and put their spin on it. Its a beautiful area and facility with a cool story.
My s.o gave me this as a a birthday gift couple of weeks back. Really nice whisky, smooth and gentle to drink with a lot of flavors there if you take the time to enjoy it. Great to have when you arent in the mood for an aggressive scotch
It’s delish, still hovering around $90 in Oklahoma…def worth it!
Oh, wow! Finally reviewing something I have in my collection. I love the Hibiki!
Been on my to buy list for a while, partially because of that beautiful bottle.
I happened to try some of this when out for dinner tonight, then came home to see your review.
Glad you liked it too!
I’ve had regular Hibiki, 17, 21, Blossom, Masters Select and “old”. My favorite is 17 and least favorite Masters Select, “old” was too different to call it the same. It was very oaky, but makes sense seeing how it was the first iteration of Hibiki.
Rex! A couple of years ago you wanted to do a proper review of canadian mist but daniel wouldn't let you. Nows the time to do a review 😂
Great point you made. The only whiskeys I drink are japanese and aged scotch. They are very similar.
Love this channel find, Hibiki is going to be the first whisky I try. Gotta dig through this channel for more finds:)
I've had Suntory Toki and I've had SO many people tell me to try this. I have Yamazaki 12, and Hibiki available at the liquor store right down the road from me.
I'd love to have either, I just don't know if I can justify ~120 for either right now.
For 120 I'd get yamazaki 12 in a heartbeat. Unfortunately for me the state minimum price for me is 180.
Toki is rough as a badgers asshole, like Bells. acetone first then not much else. Put some coke in it to dial down the roughness
Poured myself some of this exact whiskey and drank along side with you guys. Cheers to the Tribe
If you haven't heard of them already, Ichiro's Malt is doing interesting stuff. Not sure how available it is in Texas though!
I have waited so long for this video!
Bought a bottle after drinking one of Nikka Coffey Grain whisky. Two of my favorites.
Ok we doing late night reviews. Maybe the Bastards ball was a hard one this year.
I have literally done that infinity bottle thing ! On each rig the name, date and amount of whisky added.
Do you guys have a playlist of all the quintessential whiskeys? I know you had the wall of all of them but I never could find a playlist easily locating them.
There is a guy who makes a single malt.
From Japan.
Dude has been eating the EXACT SAME MEALS...every day, breakfast lunch and dinner ( different meals lol, just the same breakfast every day. The dame lunch, etc , etc.)
He has the same meal to maintain his taste. He's been doing it for like 30 years at this point.
I tried it. It was the first whiskey...or wiskey....ther is a difference and i can't remember which one this is
.... point is that it was the first whiskey I've ever had that I enjoyed.
My favorite Japanese Whiskey I have tried so far is The Fukano 10yr. It is really good.
Late night Whiskey Vault? Hell yeah
I actually want to try this too see if it’s true that Japanese whiskey is really just toned down scotch whiskey that can be enjoyed from people who don’t particularly like the taste of whiskey
Hibiki Harmony is really approachable and easy drinking. Definitely worth checking out.
I always say Japanese whiskey is somewhere between Scotch and Irish.
miss watching these two drinking whisky already
I had some of this a few weeks ago. Really great stuff.
Have you guys tried the CHIVAS MIZUNARA? This stuff has a cool story to it and is nice.
Haha, Bill was drinking the 17YO in the movie. Although the N.A.S has improved over the years the 17YO and the 21YO are next level. Have you guys tasted the Masters Select version of the Hibiki No Age Statement yet? Richer and bolder than the standard.
This is one of my favorites. I love the nose on this... it is a beautiful, delicate pour.
Do you think Japanese whisky is better drunk at room temp? I usually put the bottle in the freezer for a few hours before drinking because it gives it a really nice mouth feel and the flavour is more interesting as it warms up over time while sipping.
I think however you enjoy it is the right way! I can imagine having it slightly chilled but not watered down would be really nice
I got a Daniel advert. Before the video?! Awesome!
Just bought this bottle two days ago. For an Islay whisky drinker I must say it is rather nice. Different but nice
This stuff is brilliant and has unfortunately, skyrocketed $40 in the Canadian market. I’ve seen it in Costco in Washington state for $85 which converted, is a great price.
I must feel lucky, it’s currently $86 at my local liquor store.
It’s 146 here
YOU GUYS NEED TO TRY "Whiskey Road" from Skunk Brothers Spirits out of Stevenson Washington.
I have the blossom harmony 2022, it's awesome.
A 120 euro blend with Chita whisky in it, that’s why I found it to expensive compared to the value drinking it last month.
Hibiki is on sale in Mexico for $53.50 thinking of picking up a bottle
Surprised with the fact that Bill Murray is a master distiller at Hibiki, but couldn't find any confirmation. Can you provide a proof link please?
I found this at a Walmart liquor store on clearance for $5 a bottle. I purchased all 4 bottles
Lies!
Nope, God's honest truth. I also got 4 bottles of bowmore 12 for $10 each. Bakers 7 for $10, Jameson 12yr old for $2.50 each, yes two dollars fifty cents each! I go there a lot now. Sometimes I find half price bottles but nothing like I did that one time
5:14 -- I think Mars Shinshu Iwai Tradition is a better base-level-ish (they're all expensive nowadays) offering for a nice Japanese whiskey.
WTF.. MIDNIGHT RELEASE? OOPS... OH WELL. GOOD MORNING YOU MB'S.... 🥃
My guess, is they didn't schedule which *hour* the video should have gone live....
They know what hang over means
for the price and availability its really really insanely good.
Did you like it or not?? You get so much lost sometimes in descriptions 😂
hibiki is one of the best whiskeys ive had
Most delicious whisky in the world I ever drank.... cheers HIBIKI......I Love ❤️ you HIBIKI ❤
Yes for sure
I had this for new years it was great and everybody I know loved it but it's kinda strong for them so it lasted
Honestly my favorite overall whiskey.
I once had the opportunity to taste a 21yo Hibiki. Best whisky I ever had. But I will never make enough money to afford a bottle of it.
one of my favorite whiskies!
I cannot find this in Phoenix!
Rexxxx. Wrong time slot! But I suppose a review right now is better than waiting for you to get it right, just for it to end up being a Hibiki Harmony review. I would accept a bottle of this if it were gifted to me though. Doesn't even need to be a full bottle, as a matter of fact, I'd prefer it if it was empty. I needs me an infinity bottle.
Is this a good whisky to spend your money on?
I remember buying this one like 3 years ago and now its atleast doubled in price in my country. Its very good tho
I thought you had done thing years ago. Also, Hibiki is probably my favorite whisky
Not only is Oban available all over the USA. It's in Costco!
I've only tried flavored whiskey. I've been wanting to try actually whiskey but dont know what to get
I like the fence post in the honey hole aroma.
I love this whisky, but the current price ($100+ a bottle in my area) makes it a really tough purchase. I could get two bottles of Glendronach 12 for the same price!
Didnt yall review this before?
So is it good ?
Hibiki always escapes me with it being above my threshold price. I almost pulled the trigger on it despite myself from your original video, but settled for Santory's Toki as the affordable runner up.
Toki is so bad though…. Spend the extra coin for Hibiki if you have it next time, it’s worth it to try at least once.
@@t1nt0p I will give it a shot one of these days. Toki isn't THAT bad, lol... just a bit soft if you are used to cask strength bourbons. It is about as good at being japanese whiskey as Jameson is at being irish whiskey.
@@t1nt0p I've heard Toki is good if you make a highball with it, as that what the Japanese do with it
Yeah its a cheap 3 yr old mixer whisky like Bells or Grouse in UK@@negative6442
Hibiki suntory harmony smell like the pirates of the Caribbean ride gundowder and tobacco in my opinion. My favorite Japanese whisky
How does it compare to the Hibiki 17 or 21?
hibiki is what I use for my infinity bottle, there is no log and it keeps changing as is the nature of an infinity bottle.
This is my favorite whiskey!
I only get tobacco on mine. I like it but its one of thr wifes favorites.
Good video thanks guys 🥃
real good haveing one bottle here at home
What does honeysuckle taste like.
Love that! Awesome bottle to recycle and use as an infinity whisky bottle, which I did. That whisky is absolutely good 💩!!!
why add drops of water making different? anyone explain please
2:30 Frozen grapes is the note you're looking for
so in terms of an infinity bottle, wouldn`t adding more and more whiskies cause the same effect as blending, whereas adding too much of something ruin the blend and make it taste flat and boring?
This whisky brought me back to whisky after having a bad experience with Laphroaig that I thought put me off whisky for life.
Rex did not care whatsoever about Daniel story the look on his face was priceless 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Woohoo! Another drunk late night upload! I love these.
Man! I don't understand how they get all these notes of flavors and comparisons.
midnight whiskey sweet, but im watching this at 0530 and now want breakfast whiskey
I use a hibiki bottle for my infinity bottle
A midnight drop? Wow
Perhaps they are a little drunk
@@loocheek that I believe lol
Jackson's not at fault for that. The adults are gutter minded. Dick is just a nickname for Richard. They should have got a nice chuckle at most.
i bought 1 from Amazon recently during the Prime Deal. it went from Aud$285 to $170. i say thats a bargain.
How much money is behind these guys? 😍