Nicely done Geoff! I watched Phil’s video but couldn’t understand what he was saying, so thanks for translating for us English speakers. 😂 Here’s my picks: Light/Fruity-Clynelish 14 Rich/Spiced-Glenturret 12 Peat/Smoke-Ledaig 10 Wood/Grain-KnobCreek12 HvyFunk-Craigellachie 13
Tough challenge this one. Based on my current whisky loves. Fruity and floral - Balblair 12 (Rosebank 31, I work at the distillery so I occasionally get to taste these expensive delights) Rich and spiced - Aberlour Casg Annamh Peat and smoke - not really my thing but I’m rating Ardbeg 10. Wood and grain - Eagle Rare 10 Funky - Benromach cs Fun challenge. And ask me in a few weeks times and I’m sure it will have changed a little 🤷♂️ Love the channel Jif. Keep up the great work
Great picks/suggestions. Really into Bruichladdich lately with Islay- and Bere barley as my latest bottles. The 18 is on my shortlist and on another note that TBWC12 sounds also interesting.
As taste is subjective, my personal picks for these categories from what I own are: Fruity and floral ; Glencadam 13 Rich and spiced: Four Roses Single Barrel Peat and Smoke : Laphroaig or Ardbeg 10 YO Wood and grain: Blantons Heavy Funk: Springbank 15 or Macallan Gold...both have a heavy funk note for me.....but the tastes are amazing!
i really liked the classic laddie, although they were notes i didnt recognized compared to other things. so yah i guess the blanket term funk would cover it. seemed minerally, maybe from the sea air, idk
Thanks for sharing, Geoff. Great challenge as it at least kinda forces you to pick some interesting whiskies without grape giving in to your grape addiction. That being said... fantastic butchering that opportunity. Applause! 😂 (With my waaay to kind comments on your previous video, I had to set things straight. Next time back to normal... I think.) Slàinte mhath
Looking forward to the SYC:01 review, and maybe comparison video! The cask exploration series is pretty much an instant buy for me. Got a bottle on the shelf waiting for its turn to get cracked.
😂😂😂😂 I wasn’t going to mention it, but seeing it in the comments, I’m one of the unfortunate ones who got a baby sick classic laddie as well. Thing is, I love everything else they put out, other bruichladdichs, port charlottes, octomores, just that one bottle of classic laddie was just super hard work to get through.
Nice list my friend! You surprised me with a few chocies over there! I would probably choose Ardnamurchan 10 for the firsr category, for the second category: Ardnamurchan Sherry 2024, for the third I would choose Lagavulin 8, for the fourth category I would go with Powers 12, as for the funk: Craigellachie 13. I liked your picks, but I must admit I was surprised you didn't choose craigellachie for your funky category hehe Cheers ! 🥃🥃🎩 Ps: Its kind of funny to see "Editing Geoff" appearing again and again 😂
Hi, great list and flavor map! For me I miss the coastal type of notes, It deserve a better place ^^, comes from the peat or not.... But I like the map! 👌😉
this is off topic, but i'm throwing the standard buffalo trace under the bus for the biggest quality drop of any whisky, cutting corners while cashing in on name popularity. i swear it is only 4 years old now, with a harsh nose and rough palate, losing all the brown sugar and caramel it had ten years ago
I'm gonna put out some heresy here. I've got a bottle of the standard Longrow and... it's very meh with me. I enjoy SB and HB much more. And it lags behind a lot of the other peated whiskeys I've had like the kilchoman sanaig, benromach 10 & 15, uigeadail, and lagavulin 16. * immediately goes into hiding*
There’s a decent amount of batch variation with the Longrow peated imo. I have a bottle from a couple of years ago which is majority (all?) ex-bourbon which I have to hide from myself because it’s a cracker, and a more recent one that’s got noticeably more sherry (and wine?) influence, which is good, but not as knock-your-socks-off. I actually find myself gravitating towards the Longrow peated a lot more than I expected to when I first opened it, especially that slightly older one - it’s got a beautiful porridge oats thing going on, biscuit, malt, custard, with a fairly heavy smokiness to it. Each to their own though, more for me if it gets left on shelves.
@barryfrombarnsley2790 that does sound a lot nicer than what I got. It could definitely have been a less than stellar batch that I got. I was getting a coastal funky peat more on line with something like the ledaig 10. But it felt a little anemic compared to the ledaig 10 leaving me a bit disappointed.
Longrow is a simpler whisky. No sherry or caskrobatics. Totally agree that SB and HB are more interesting lines. I prefer Longrow to Sanaig, personally. Benromach has too light of a peat profile to exemplify smoke and peat in my opinion. As for Lagavulin and Uigeadail, they're excellent. I'd also place them above Longrow, but I suppose I wanted something less cask-driven here. Cheers! 🥃
Apologies for elbowing my way into your back-and-forth here, but after all these years I finally pulled the trigger on Longrow. I won't make firm conclusions until I'm farther down the bottle, but after my first few drams I feel the really nice, invitiing nose is a bit more promising than the palate; it seems a little thin (a reason could be that most of my whiskies are high ABV). Yes, the flavors are good but I'm not blown away--yet. If I remember, I might have liked the latest pour best, so, who knows, maybe I'll consider it great. I know it would be gorgeous at 50% (and could you imagine its potential at cask strength?)--bigger flavors with a more robust finish. But, I like it enough to see how my relationship with it evolves.
@Gwhisky I do agree the peat is lighter in the benromach, but what is there plays so nice with the rest of the distillate (especially in the 15). But you're right it's not really fair to compare them to LR since they are trying to achieve two different things. And the LR is by no means a bad whiskey. I guess I'm not the target demographic (though I did say the same thing about HB 10 until I was 3/4 through the bottle, and promptly reversed my opinion)
Keeping it real...Orchard House or Glencadam 15, Glen Scotia Victoriana or Craigellechie 17, Port Charlotte 10 or Laphroaig Cairdeas 2024, Deanston 12 or 18, Benromach 10 or Cask Strength.
I dont think anything from lslay are anything but peat smoked mermaids bathwater and terpintine and brand new bandaids..you can keep all of that you want lol I want funky sweet spicy floral mouth punch
Great analysis, thank you! I have a quick question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (mistake turkey blossom warfare blade until bachelor fall squeeze today flee guitar). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
My pleasure! With regards to your Binance question: Have you tried chugging a bottle of Aberlour A'bunadh and setting fire to all your belongings to purge your life material possessions? Cheers Maria. 🥃
Cool video as usual but with some unusual and interesting picks 👍 Here goes my list: 1) fruity & floral Bladnoch 10 (had last 3 bottles available where I live, I already miss it terribly) 2) rich & spiced Tamdhu Batch Strength 3) peat & smoke Ardbeg Corryvreckan / Glasgow 1770 Peated 4) wood & grain Inchmurrin 18 5) heavy funky Benromach Cask Strength
Although the term 'category' has a broad frame of definition that is subjective to one's understanding, your whisky categories in this video (or is it Phil's?), with all due respect, are complete twists from or of the traditional ones, (be it Regional or Universal), and can cause confusion to general whisky fans, particularly to whisky beginners. Fruity/floral, Rich/spicy, Peat/smoky, Funky, etc.., for me, are merely specific descriptors that REPRESENT part of whisky's character or characteristics. Category for me should revolve around the important factors that DEFINE whisky as whisky, such as the G-A-R-P methodological analysis (Grain-Age-Region-Process) which had been deeply studied, interpreted and established by the SWA, and consistently used by different whisky producing regions worldwide.
Thank god there are so many Bourbon's for less than $40 with great flavors and high abv for us who live in the US. Thanks to those Scotch experts, some of their favorites became pretty expensive. I wish they never opened their mouth with such enthusiasm regarding certain bottles. With all due respect, those Categories were pretty Dumb. The original categories were much better (daily, impress your guest, mixer, fri night, special occasion).
@@GwhiskyI wouldn’t say the categories are dumb, but they suffer the same pitfalls as other ways to divide them up in that they can all go more granular - like fruity for example, could be a pineapple-forward Linkwood, an Apple-forward Caol Ila, a super red fruit forward bourbon even with the big cherry notes, before even thinking of florals, which could be Tamdhu perfume kind of florals, or more of a meadow flowers delicate lowland type, or the kind of effervescent fizzy florals you get with some Glencadams. Likewise peat could be smokey peat, medicinal iodine peat, farmy cow sh%t peat. Etc etc., but no matter how you categorise scotch whisky especially, you’re always going to get some overlap between categories and be able to drill down further into subcategories.
"With all due respect..." cue insult. I agree. There is only 1 set of categories that is smart. All other sets of categories are dumb. Actually, only the ice bucket challenge is the one true challenge, with all due respect 😉
Hey Jif! Thanks for taking up the challenge mate.
Such a light roasting on this one haha.
fruity & floral: Glencadam 10
rich & spiced: GlenAllachie 12
peat & smoke: Ledaig 10
wood & grain: Power's John Lane 12
heavy funk: Bladnoch 11
This bromance is blossoming!!! 2025 will be the year of the First G!! G Phil? G Philff?
You only need 5 Whisky. Says the guy with a ton of Whisky in the shelves. 😅
Challenge accepted! 😈
Noice.
Strong and little surprised by your list Gif. Some bangers in there 🔥
Nicely done Geoff!
I watched Phil’s video but couldn’t understand what he was saying, so thanks for translating for us English speakers. 😂
Here’s my picks:
Light/Fruity-Clynelish 14
Rich/Spiced-Glenturret 12
Peat/Smoke-Ledaig 10
Wood/Grain-KnobCreek12
HvyFunk-Craigellachie 13
Tough challenge this one. Based on my current whisky loves.
Fruity and floral - Balblair 12 (Rosebank 31, I work at the distillery so I occasionally get to taste these expensive delights)
Rich and spiced - Aberlour Casg Annamh
Peat and smoke - not really my thing but I’m rating Ardbeg 10.
Wood and grain - Eagle Rare 10
Funky - Benromach cs
Fun challenge. And ask me in a few weeks times and I’m sure it will have changed a little 🤷♂️
Love the channel Jif. Keep up the great work
Great picks/suggestions. Really into Bruichladdich lately with Islay- and Bere barley as my latest bottles. The 18 is on my shortlist and on another note that TBWC12 sounds also interesting.
Interesting picks, Jif! Love the back and forth between you and Phil! Cheers!
Wanna try that Longmorn. Too steep for the excitement level though
1) fruity & floral
Oban 14
2) rich & spiced
Bunnahabhain 12 CS
3) peat & smoke
Ledaig 10
4) wood & grain
Eagle Rare 10
5) heavy funky
Springbank 12 CS (not that funky)
Bimber is the Polish name of the moon shine. Some clever business guys in the UK made the brand out of it.
Great choice with the number bottle love it! I have several of theirs including a stout barrel which is great.
The glenmorangie 18 yr is great too
As taste is subjective, my personal picks for these categories from what I own are:
Fruity and floral ; Glencadam 13
Rich and spiced: Four Roses Single Barrel
Peat and Smoke : Laphroaig or Ardbeg 10 YO
Wood and grain: Blantons
Heavy Funk: Springbank 15 or Macallan Gold...both have a heavy funk note for me.....but the tastes are amazing!
8:37 Ah… I love these releases from Port Charlotte. Ordered and picking up the SYC: 01 tomorrow hope it’s as good as the previous ones 😊
Its a stunner, in my opinion.
The bar is looking slick dude, nice!
Great list Geoff!
i really liked the classic laddie, although they were notes i didnt recognized compared to other things. so yah i guess the blanket term funk would cover it. seemed minerally, maybe from the sea air, idk
Thanks for sharing, Geoff.
Great challenge as it at least kinda forces you to pick some interesting whiskies without grape giving in to your grape addiction.
That being said... fantastic butchering that opportunity. Applause! 😂
(With my waaay to kind comments on your previous video, I had to set things straight. Next time back to normal... I think.)
Slàinte mhath
I would not have guessed a single one of your choices. PC Syrah Cask is one of my faves of last year. Very good.
Looking forward to the SYC:01 review, and maybe comparison video!
The cask exploration series is pretty much an instant buy for me. Got a bottle on the shelf waiting for its turn to get cracked.
thank you Geoff, more cheers from Brazil 🥃
lol ! 1.fruity = glencadam oak 2. spiced = glenallachie 15 3. funk = old glen garioch 10 4. baby puke = Laddie (any ) 5.wood and grain = Calandian CLub 18 yea 58% . . .
😂😂😂😂 I wasn’t going to mention it, but seeing it in the comments, I’m one of the unfortunate ones who got a baby sick classic laddie as well. Thing is, I love everything else they put out, other bruichladdichs, port charlottes, octomores, just that one bottle of classic laddie was just super hard work to get through.
Looks like today is not a laundry day ❤
Nice list my friend!
You surprised me with a few chocies over there!
I would probably choose Ardnamurchan 10 for the firsr category, for the second category: Ardnamurchan Sherry 2024, for the third I would choose Lagavulin 8, for the fourth category I would go with Powers 12, as for the funk: Craigellachie 13.
I liked your picks, but I must admit I was surprised you didn't choose craigellachie for your funky category hehe
Cheers ! 🥃🥃🎩
Ps: Its kind of funny to see "Editing Geoff" appearing again and again 😂
Hah I felt like Craigellachie would have been too obvious. 😉🥃
thank you for the episode, I like such films that inspire me to search :) it's a pity I can't afford Longmorn 18 CS xD
2:26 tattoo worthy motto
5 whiskies? That's not a challenge, that's just Thursday for some of us!
Hi, great list and flavor map! For me I miss the coastal type of notes, It deserve a better place ^^, comes from the peat or not.... But I like the map! 👌😉
Boy editor Jiff must be frustrated with Whiskey Jiff! 😂
I like the way You explain . 👌🇳🇱
this is off topic, but i'm throwing the standard buffalo trace under the bus for the biggest quality drop of any whisky, cutting corners while cashing in on name popularity. i swear it is only 4 years old now, with a harsh nose and rough palate, losing all the brown sugar and caramel it had ten years ago
Surprised that no SB was selected for the "funky" category :)
I’m glad you didn’t make fun of Phil, Jif. But seriously, always enjoy & learn from your videos.
Hah cheers Pete. 🥃
Nice one Jif! Does that microphone double as a lava lamp?
I'm gonna put out some heresy here. I've got a bottle of the standard Longrow and... it's very meh with me. I enjoy SB and HB much more. And it lags behind a lot of the other peated whiskeys I've had like the kilchoman sanaig, benromach 10 & 15, uigeadail, and lagavulin 16.
* immediately goes into hiding*
There’s a decent amount of batch variation with the Longrow peated imo. I have a bottle from a couple of years ago which is majority (all?) ex-bourbon which I have to hide from myself because it’s a cracker, and a more recent one that’s got noticeably more sherry (and wine?) influence, which is good, but not as knock-your-socks-off. I actually find myself gravitating towards the Longrow peated a lot more than I expected to when I first opened it, especially that slightly older one - it’s got a beautiful porridge oats thing going on, biscuit, malt, custard, with a fairly heavy smokiness to it. Each to their own though, more for me if it gets left on shelves.
@barryfrombarnsley2790 that does sound a lot nicer than what I got. It could definitely have been a less than stellar batch that I got. I was getting a coastal funky peat more on line with something like the ledaig 10. But it felt a little anemic compared to the ledaig 10 leaving me a bit disappointed.
Longrow is a simpler whisky. No sherry or caskrobatics. Totally agree that SB and HB are more interesting lines. I prefer Longrow to Sanaig, personally. Benromach has too light of a peat profile to exemplify smoke and peat in my opinion. As for Lagavulin and Uigeadail, they're excellent. I'd also place them above Longrow, but I suppose I wanted something less cask-driven here. Cheers! 🥃
Apologies for elbowing my way into your back-and-forth here, but after all these years I finally pulled the trigger on Longrow. I won't make firm conclusions until I'm farther down the bottle, but after my first few drams I feel the really nice, invitiing nose is a bit more promising than the palate; it seems a little thin (a reason could be that most of my whiskies are high ABV). Yes, the flavors are good but I'm not blown away--yet. If I remember, I might have liked the latest pour best, so, who knows, maybe I'll consider it great. I know it would be gorgeous at 50% (and could you imagine its potential at cask strength?)--bigger flavors with a more robust finish. But, I like it enough to see how my relationship with it evolves.
@Gwhisky I do agree the peat is lighter in the benromach, but what is there plays so nice with the rest of the distillate (especially in the 15). But you're right it's not really fair to compare them to LR since they are trying to achieve two different things. And the LR is by no means a bad whiskey. I guess I'm not the target demographic (though I did say the same thing about HB 10 until I was 3/4 through the bottle, and promptly reversed my opinion)
I was surprised with Woodford Reserve. It tastes less of a bourbon and more of a scotch. I love it
Hey M8, the SYC isnt avaleeble in NZ, hwever a club membr has brot 1 bk frm te UK 4 our nxt club meet in Jan. Cant wait
Four Roses single barrel is awesome bourbon.
I tried a Bruichladdich 18 fresh crack at whisky fair and wasn't impressed, does it require more time to air and turn better?
Keeping it real...Orchard House or Glencadam 15, Glen Scotia Victoriana or Craigellechie 17, Port Charlotte 10 or Laphroaig Cairdeas 2024, Deanston 12 or 18, Benromach 10 or Cask Strength.
Great selection, Christopher, and I think they represent/embody those categories really well.
@jbar6284 Thank you!
I dont think anything from lslay are anything but peat smoked mermaids bathwater and terpintine and brand new bandaids..you can keep all of that you want lol I want funky sweet spicy floral mouth punch
good idea for a testing rating ;;
Glenmorangie 18y i awesome, always have a bottle on my shelf 😋😋
Doesn't get the love it deserves! 🥃
@ true ☺️
F&F: Yamazaki 12
R&S: Sagamore Sherry Finished Rye
P&S: Laphroaig Cairdeas 2024
W&G: Russell’s 15
Heavy Funk: Springbank 12 CS 2024
The boutiquey speyside is Dalmore isn’t it?
Is it? No idea. 🥃
The label being the clue…..😉
Yeah 🎉🎉 longmorn 18 🤗
🙏🙏🙏
Great analysis, thank you! I have a quick question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (mistake turkey blossom warfare blade until bachelor fall squeeze today flee guitar). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
My pleasure! With regards to your Binance question: Have you tried chugging a bottle of Aberlour A'bunadh and setting fire to all your belongings to purge your life material possessions? Cheers Maria. 🥃
If you come to my house, the title of the video would be:
The 172 Whiskies You Need.
I have a problem.
I lost it on "Hey Jif"
Heavy Funk wasn't Craigellachie 13 :O
Too obvious. 😉🥃
Cool video as usual but with some unusual and interesting picks 👍 Here goes my list:
1) fruity & floral
Bladnoch 10 (had last 3 bottles available where I live, I already miss it terribly)
2) rich & spiced
Tamdhu Batch Strength
3) peat & smoke
Ardbeg Corryvreckan / Glasgow 1770 Peated
4) wood & grain
Inchmurrin 18
5) heavy funky
Benromach Cask Strength
Whiskey Wars hasn't posted a video in almost a year so I'm not sure if the challenge will be accepted?
Wrong channel 😉 going to film it on Saturday and post next week sometime… ish
Huh? He posted like a week ago and he's already accepted the challenge.
so is 700ml becoming the new normal?
It always has been outside the US.
Although the term 'category' has a broad frame of definition that is subjective to one's understanding, your whisky categories in this video (or is it Phil's?), with all due respect, are complete twists from or of the traditional ones, (be it Regional or Universal), and can cause confusion to general whisky fans, particularly to whisky beginners. Fruity/floral, Rich/spicy, Peat/smoky, Funky, etc.., for me, are merely specific descriptors that REPRESENT part of whisky's character or characteristics. Category for me should revolve around the important factors that DEFINE whisky as whisky, such as the G-A-R-P methodological analysis (Grain-Age-Region-Process) which had been deeply studied, interpreted and established by the SWA, and consistently used by different whisky producing regions worldwide.
Thank god there are so many Bourbon's for less than $40 with great flavors and high abv for us who live in the US. Thanks to those Scotch experts, some of their favorites became pretty expensive. I wish they never opened their mouth with such enthusiasm regarding certain bottles. With all due respect, those Categories were pretty Dumb. The original categories were much better (daily, impress your guest, mixer, fri night, special occasion).
These were excellent categories for describing the variety of flavours in whisky. This challenge is completely unrelated to that old one.
@@GwhiskyI wouldn’t say the categories are dumb, but they suffer the same pitfalls as other ways to divide them up in that they can all go more granular - like fruity for example, could be a pineapple-forward Linkwood, an Apple-forward Caol Ila, a super red fruit forward bourbon even with the big cherry notes, before even thinking of florals, which could be Tamdhu perfume kind of florals, or more of a meadow flowers delicate lowland type, or the kind of effervescent fizzy florals you get with some Glencadams. Likewise peat could be smokey peat, medicinal iodine peat, farmy cow sh%t peat. Etc etc., but no matter how you categorise scotch whisky especially, you’re always going to get some overlap between categories and be able to drill down further into subcategories.
"With all due respect..." cue insult. I agree. There is only 1 set of categories that is smart. All other sets of categories are dumb. Actually, only the ice bucket challenge is the one true challenge, with all due respect
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First comment!!