Christmas Special 2025

December 22, 2025

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On this Christmas special the hosts endure a prank, survive a brutal Malört tasting, sample four eggnogs (Pennsylvania Dutch, Peg Leg, Evan Williams, Screwball) and rank their favorites. They also light up cigars and redeem the episode with a tasting of New Riff winter whiskey.

Laid-back banter, holiday vibes, tasting notes, and plenty of regret—pour a glass, light one up, and enjoy the ride.

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WEBVTT 00:00:11.444 --> 00:00:16.844 You're listening to Bourbon Beards and Belvederes, the podcast where whiskey, 00:00:17.244 --> 00:00:21.544 cigars, and beard products aren't just a hobby. They're a lifestyle. 00:00:22.144 --> 00:00:26.264 Hosted by Adam, Paul, and Jerry, three guys with real experience, 00:00:26.724 --> 00:00:29.464 full beards, and even fuller glasses. 00:00:29.984 --> 00:00:34.464 Each episode serves up thoughtful tastings, laid-back cigar talk, 00:00:34.584 --> 00:00:41.224 and honest takes on beard gear and beyond, from top-shelf pours to everyday essentials. 00:00:41.444 --> 00:00:46.044 This is the place where conversations flow as smooth as the whiskey. 00:00:46.424 --> 00:00:50.844 So, pour a glass, light one up, and enjoy the ride. 00:00:51.124 --> 00:00:54.724 This is Bourbon, Beards, and Belvederes. 00:01:08.474 --> 00:01:12.834 Welcome to Bourbon Beards and Belvederes. I'm Adam. And I'm Paul. And I'm Jerry. 00:01:13.374 --> 00:01:17.774 And today we've got a regret-filled episode. Our Christmas special, 00:01:18.034 --> 00:01:22.374 and these two evil bastards decided to pull a fast one behind my back. 00:01:22.554 --> 00:01:28.894 I'm not appreciative of it or of them right at this exact moment. 00:01:28.894 --> 00:01:33.394 So what we're going to do is we're going to start with the poor Malort. 00:01:33.574 --> 00:01:37.554 And I don't know why. Since Christmas. 00:01:40.154 --> 00:01:44.454 Look, I mean, the bottle is Christmas colors. I mean, not really. 00:01:45.334 --> 00:01:49.194 If anything reminds me of Christmas, it's Jepson's Malort. Well, 00:01:49.654 --> 00:01:52.234 they're Swedish. Are they Swedish? Swedish? 00:01:52.714 --> 00:01:57.214 Swedish Malort. Malort. I'll have another. No, I won't. 00:01:57.414 --> 00:02:02.714 So, you know, I've got these nods here, which I'm not super excited about, 00:02:02.814 --> 00:02:04.554 but we'll try that out and see how that works. 00:02:05.114 --> 00:02:07.674 Got some water. Got myself some homemade. 00:02:08.474 --> 00:02:13.634 Apple pie, that's going to be how I get this god-awful taste out of my mouth. 00:02:14.074 --> 00:02:17.354 And all the guys have their own method. 00:02:18.914 --> 00:02:23.294 Now, this is what I do think about when I think about Christmas is Mad Elf holiday 00:02:23.294 --> 00:02:24.974 ale brewed with cherries and honey. 00:02:25.154 --> 00:02:28.614 This is something I always only drink around the holidays, but it just feels 00:02:28.614 --> 00:02:30.054 right to drink it around the holidays. 00:02:30.514 --> 00:02:34.994 I've got about an inch of snow outside right now. It feels like Mad Elf weather. 00:02:35.904 --> 00:02:40.104 And you have to drink that out of a chalice. Ah, definitely. 00:02:40.444 --> 00:02:46.224 Yeah, that's a badass glass, but that beer's got a nice color to it. Oh, yeah, definitely. 00:02:46.504 --> 00:02:49.744 I don't know if they have that around here. Nice cranberry-looking color. 00:02:50.004 --> 00:02:52.144 Yeah, it's infused with cherries and honey. 00:02:53.364 --> 00:02:56.684 They use Belgian yeasts, so if you don't like Belgian beers, 00:02:56.784 --> 00:02:57.484 you probably won't like it. 00:02:57.544 --> 00:03:02.064 But I don't prefer Belgian beers, so it's subtle enough where I do like this. 00:03:02.064 --> 00:03:05.184 It's made by Troggs. I think they're out west somewhere. 00:03:05.904 --> 00:03:09.604 I don't necessarily prefer them but i don't mind them you know the belgian beers 00:03:09.604 --> 00:03:17.844 i'm a big fan of most beers from europe well i was i was way off trobes is in hershey pennsylvania. 00:03:19.324 --> 00:03:25.744 Company for a second jerry what are you starting with bud i don't know i really 00:03:25.744 --> 00:03:31.344 didn't think this one through there we go let's go with some green river rye close to my head. 00:03:32.264 --> 00:03:36.604 Rye always seems like a good... Yeah, this one I like a lot. 00:03:36.744 --> 00:03:40.544 There's a lot of those baking spices in there, some fruity notes, 00:03:40.724 --> 00:03:43.104 like stone fruit notes in there. 00:03:44.204 --> 00:03:50.264 Not really a Christmas four, but it's got a green and gold-ish label. 00:03:50.524 --> 00:03:53.004 So, Christmas, right? That's right. 00:03:53.524 --> 00:03:59.644 And let's not forget about this incredible New Riff winter whiskey that Paul 00:03:59.644 --> 00:04:04.264 sent out to us, and you can see, thankfully, Paul sent two samples, 00:04:04.284 --> 00:04:07.044 because I drank most of the first one. 00:04:07.624 --> 00:04:15.224 It's really fucking good. It's different, we will say. It is really good, though. I like it a lot. 00:04:15.344 --> 00:04:19.664 There's a lot going on with it. We'll talk about that. When we get there. 00:04:22.024 --> 00:04:23.444 Yeah, all right. 00:04:25.344 --> 00:04:29.384 Yeah yeah good nose it 00:04:29.384 --> 00:04:32.344 honestly does it has that like 00:04:32.344 --> 00:04:35.084 great obviously grapefruit but it has like this 00:04:35.084 --> 00:04:42.224 like the citrusy floral note to it there is a little bit of like old oil or 00:04:42.224 --> 00:04:47.244 imminent regret that's what it is yeah it's like old oil or old play-doh or 00:04:47.244 --> 00:04:51.504 something like that in the back but like initial it's nice and bright and floral 00:04:51.504 --> 00:04:55.064 but i know that's just a cover-up because yeah, no. 00:04:55.444 --> 00:04:58.884 That's why this stuff is so dangerous is because the nose is, 00:04:58.924 --> 00:05:02.124 it's not inviting, but when you give this something, they're like, 00:05:02.324 --> 00:05:03.664 okay. Yeah, that doesn't feel bad. 00:05:04.104 --> 00:05:06.084 And then we all know what comes next. 00:05:06.784 --> 00:05:13.664 I do not want this. To me, the nose is I mean, this must be what Sex Panther smells like. 00:05:15.484 --> 00:05:20.424 Right? Isn't that what smelled like Bigfoot's dick? Sex Panther? This has to be it. 00:05:21.404 --> 00:05:24.404 This is this is fucking awful 00:05:24.404 --> 00:05:28.384 it smells like a tire it smells like christmas it 00:05:28.384 --> 00:05:31.244 just no no well yeah kind 00:05:31.244 --> 00:05:35.204 of it's when when you open the package uh 00:05:35.204 --> 00:05:37.884 for a uh a new action figure from back in 00:05:37.884 --> 00:05:40.844 the 80s and 90s you remember it had that last gas yeah 00:05:40.844 --> 00:05:43.944 that off gassing from the plastic yeah that's 00:05:43.944 --> 00:05:48.284 that's some that's pretty good for this oh it's a new he-man that's what it 00:05:48.284 --> 00:05:52.444 smells like brand new he-man yeah yeah new he-man i can get behind that new 00:05:52.444 --> 00:05:58.364 he-man smell on new he-man was great this is not meant to be consumed by anyone 00:05:58.364 --> 00:06:03.224 ever and and for some reason i have it in my glass and, 00:06:04.531 --> 00:06:07.071 Alright, we gotta stop talking about that. I keep putting that down. 00:06:08.131 --> 00:06:13.011 I just brushed my teeth, guys. I forgot we were doing this. I brushed my fucking teeth. 00:06:15.171 --> 00:06:20.431 You need at least 10 seconds before you chase. No. 00:06:22.391 --> 00:06:27.291 I didn't agree to that. I'm not sticking to it. At least 10 seconds. Ready? Oh, 00:06:29.371 --> 00:06:39.791 it tastes like pickles. oh no you can't wash that out with ajax that is just 00:06:39.791 --> 00:06:44.011 the worst i'm like drooling on myself oh. 00:06:48.431 --> 00:06:50.451 Fucking jepsons fuck you jepsons, 00:06:51.298 --> 00:06:54.298 Yeah, it starts out the way it smells. Pretty decent. 00:06:54.698 --> 00:07:01.478 It finishes the way it smells. And then it's just... The whole back of the throat is just... Covered. 00:07:03.238 --> 00:07:09.538 It's like... The wet grass clippings under a mower if you just sprinkle those 00:07:09.538 --> 00:07:11.518 and use motor oil and drink that. 00:07:12.638 --> 00:07:17.398 Alright, let's go on to these nogs. Let's figure that situation out. 00:07:17.918 --> 00:07:21.058 Yeah, I feel like... It's over my mouth. I was going to say, 00:07:21.178 --> 00:07:24.018 I feel like this eggnog is going to coat it and get rid of it, hopefully. 00:07:25.498 --> 00:07:28.678 We got four good ones, I think. All right, which ones are you going to start with? 00:07:29.278 --> 00:07:33.618 I don't know. Do you want to do, since we got two just normal non-flavored ones, 00:07:33.678 --> 00:07:35.878 do you want to start with those? Yeah, let's do that. That's a good idea. 00:07:36.558 --> 00:07:41.558 Okay. Ugh, that fucking bullshit is still in my mouth. Yeah, it's awful. 00:07:42.098 --> 00:07:46.418 It's awful. It won't go away. No, it's all in the roof of my mouth. 00:07:46.598 --> 00:07:48.078 No, it's in my mouth. out. 00:07:48.458 --> 00:07:53.218 So Adam had it last week or two weeks ago, whatever it was. I think I have something what he had. 00:07:53.358 --> 00:07:57.718 It started out sore throat and then it's just now just like my nasal cavities. 00:07:58.158 --> 00:08:02.518 Like it's just back of the nose, like back of the throat, that area. There's nothing else. 00:08:03.278 --> 00:08:07.058 And it's basically, I got like that inflammation or phlegm or whatever, 00:08:07.258 --> 00:08:08.458 like between the nose and the mouth. 00:08:08.618 --> 00:08:12.898 And then this shit is just colliding with it. And it's just like, 00:08:12.998 --> 00:08:15.838 hey, you now have just fucking phlegm. 00:08:16.018 --> 00:08:18.138 You have malort phlegm now. Uh-huh. Yeah. 00:08:19.118 --> 00:08:22.778 Yeah. Got some more, Slim. That's what I always wanted. 00:08:23.738 --> 00:08:27.798 Ugh. Maybe I should have smoked today to get rid of that. It doesn't help. 00:08:29.298 --> 00:08:34.958 It almost makes it close. Okay, so which nog are we going with here, guys? 00:08:35.578 --> 00:08:38.678 Let's do the one I sent the Pennsylvania Dutch. That's my go-to. 00:08:38.978 --> 00:08:43.558 This is probably my favorite, and I think the best off-the-shelf eggnog. 00:08:44.394 --> 00:08:50.914 Pennsylvania Dutch, 14.75%. It's real dairy cream, rum, brandy, and blended whiskey. 00:08:51.674 --> 00:08:55.654 Holy shit. It's just one I go to every year. It is the egg. 00:08:56.114 --> 00:08:59.994 I just took a pull straight out of the fucking bottle here. That's fucking, 00:09:00.014 --> 00:09:03.094 that's delicious. That smells really good. That is delicious. 00:09:03.974 --> 00:09:07.534 I like eggnog a lot, so I've tried just about all the brands out there. 00:09:07.874 --> 00:09:11.694 And this one, I think it's the best, just unflavored. Oh, wow. 00:09:12.974 --> 00:09:16.554 Oh, yeah, and we can get it here. That is just straight custard. 00:09:17.194 --> 00:09:20.914 Yeah, it's a good one. That is really good. I can't get it here. 00:09:21.074 --> 00:09:25.074 It's not in stock here currently. 00:09:26.774 --> 00:09:27.194 But... 00:09:28.550 --> 00:09:32.290 I want to say it's like 14, 15 bucks per bottle. 00:09:33.290 --> 00:09:36.670 So not bad. Some of the cheaper ones, you can get a jug for like 10 bucks, 00:09:36.790 --> 00:09:39.170 but I think it's worth paying up for that one. That's my favorite. 00:09:39.610 --> 00:09:47.450 Yeah. Total wine by me has the 750 for 12 bucks and the 1.75 for 23 bucks. 00:09:48.330 --> 00:09:52.150 Yeah. So I'm going to do this right now since I've got it open. There you go. 00:09:53.030 --> 00:09:56.190 I'll be sure to tell you guys if it's good or not. 00:09:56.710 --> 00:10:00.330 You'll find out for yourselves because i'm gonna make sure you get some of this apple pie but, 00:10:01.030 --> 00:10:05.230 you're just gonna have to sit there and watch me enjoy this after putting me through that, 00:10:05.790 --> 00:10:08.590 fucking endurance trial i don't care i don't 00:10:08.590 --> 00:10:11.430 i don't taste a malort no more i'm fine well i'm 00:10:11.430 --> 00:10:15.710 a glutton for fucking punishment so here we go boys malort nog 00:10:15.710 --> 00:10:23.070 no 50 okay no 50 50 it's not curdling that's a good sign that pennsylvania dutch 00:10:23.070 --> 00:10:31.550 is actually really good no no i will tell you that right now yeah the only good thing about, 00:10:32.210 --> 00:10:35.530 this episode is content is going to be, 00:10:36.330 --> 00:10:41.810 all over the place oh it's worse if it quotes your mouth with the Lord. 00:10:43.830 --> 00:10:48.390 I'm going to have one more little I'm going to save the rest of this and take 00:10:48.390 --> 00:10:52.530 it upstairs to my wife and let her try some with that apple pie because that's, 00:10:53.610 --> 00:10:56.410 real good guys, you guys are going to enjoy that. 00:10:57.030 --> 00:11:02.150 This Pennsylvania Dutch kind of reminds me of like a basically a custer with 00:11:02.150 --> 00:11:03.510 a little bit of mintiness on the back end. 00:11:04.810 --> 00:11:07.970 I got to point out, you know, you guys already saw, but, 00:11:09.726 --> 00:11:15.126 It was ruined for me by the sellers because they decided not to put it in a 00:11:15.126 --> 00:11:18.346 package that didn't show what was in it. 00:11:18.646 --> 00:11:21.946 And so I literally just opened this. 00:11:22.186 --> 00:11:26.446 It was a Christmas present from my wife and opened it 11 days early because 00:11:26.446 --> 00:11:28.986 the surprise was ruined by the packaging. 00:11:29.166 --> 00:11:32.726 But I brought it out here to show them before we started recording. 00:11:32.846 --> 00:11:33.986 And then here we are drinking eggnog. 00:11:34.166 --> 00:11:36.306 I mean, I didn't even make that connection until this exact time. 00:11:36.326 --> 00:11:40.086 Oh, I should have brought my moose eggnog glass out. That's what I'm saying. 00:11:40.466 --> 00:11:44.866 I looked him up the other day and thought for sure. 00:11:45.046 --> 00:11:55.166 I found him on Amazon, and I was positive that it was $14 for a set. It's not. 00:11:55.926 --> 00:11:59.186 $14 for one? It lasts on Amazon. 00:12:00.566 --> 00:12:04.326 Forever. I have no idea where Evan got it, but should have brought that one 00:12:04.326 --> 00:12:05.766 out. That would have been good for this episode. 00:12:07.506 --> 00:12:12.066 I was... I was nice to you, Adam. I only sent you one-ounce samples of these 00:12:12.066 --> 00:12:14.826 eggnogs since I didn't know you weren't too big of a fan. I sent Paul. 00:12:14.826 --> 00:12:16.206 I think they're like eight-ounce samples. 00:12:16.926 --> 00:12:22.166 Yeah, well, so it's not that I'm not a big fan of eggnog. 00:12:22.886 --> 00:12:28.406 I'm lactose intolerant, so that's the real issue there. The nog itself doesn't really bother me. 00:12:28.546 --> 00:12:31.086 So the Pennsylvania Dutch was great. 00:12:31.246 --> 00:12:33.986 This one right here, I'm willing to bet, is probably going to be pretty good. 00:12:34.066 --> 00:12:35.306 This peg leg thing, whatever. 00:12:35.926 --> 00:12:42.446 This mint son of a bitch. I'm not really, I don't really do minty, 00:12:42.606 --> 00:12:47.966 like mint chocolate chip ice cream and shit like that. Not really my thing. 00:12:48.266 --> 00:12:49.586 You're going to love that one then. 00:12:52.086 --> 00:12:57.906 I just poured up the Peg Lake Porker, their Peg Nog, if you guys haven't poured it up yet. 00:12:58.126 --> 00:13:00.986 Yep, super thin. Yeah, really thin compared to these. 00:13:01.426 --> 00:13:03.606 It pours like whole milk. 00:13:05.747 --> 00:13:11.587 It's very, very white. It looks like glue. Yeah, this is. That's good, though. 00:13:12.267 --> 00:13:17.487 There's the little peg leg on it. That is pretty good. It's their. 00:13:18.267 --> 00:13:21.807 I don't know. What is peg leg? That's bourbon, right? Peg leg bourbon, 00:13:22.087 --> 00:13:25.007 like the 12-year and whatnot. Peg leg forker? Yeah. 00:13:26.387 --> 00:13:31.327 So it's their bourbon. And then with like the typical. 00:13:31.867 --> 00:13:36.227 I saw a reel on it the other day. It's the eggs, the heavy whipping or heavy 00:13:36.227 --> 00:13:38.767 cream, the whole milk, all that. 00:13:38.887 --> 00:13:41.707 A little bit of cinnamon, a little bit of nutmeg. I think he puts in there and doing some vanilla. 00:13:42.507 --> 00:13:46.267 Got a nice finish. It's like, I don't know what, almost like a bubblegummy finish. 00:13:46.427 --> 00:13:50.107 It's like a sweet. I was going to say on the nose, I get like a bubblegum type note. 00:13:50.827 --> 00:13:54.327 Yeah, no, that's really good. I like that. This would probably mix well too 00:13:54.327 --> 00:13:58.627 with like, with Adam would shine and things like that because it's thinner. 00:13:58.987 --> 00:14:03.287 Yeah. I think I like that. You almost need a stir or one of those little push-button 00:14:03.287 --> 00:14:06.307 stirs or something if you're going to mix with that Pennsylvania Dutch because it's so thick. 00:14:06.787 --> 00:14:11.147 Yeah, if I'm drinking it by itself, I'm sticking with that Pennsylvania Dutch. 00:14:11.767 --> 00:14:14.807 But, yeah, I feel like if you want to add something else into this, 00:14:15.267 --> 00:14:17.647 this peg nog would be good. It's just a little bit thin. 00:14:18.287 --> 00:14:24.407 And when I think of egg nog or coquito or any of those holiday drinks, 00:14:24.567 --> 00:14:25.687 I think of it's a little bit thicker. 00:14:26.187 --> 00:14:29.227 Yeah, but I like this, though. I've never had this one. Thank you. 00:14:30.729 --> 00:14:35.189 This one's actually the consistency that I picture in my head when Clark's actually 00:14:35.189 --> 00:14:37.529 digging into that bowl. Downing. 00:14:38.469 --> 00:14:39.969 It's good. It's good. 00:14:41.049 --> 00:14:47.309 Yeah. And I think all these are what? 15%? Paul, your two 15%? 00:14:47.729 --> 00:14:49.849 14.75 were the two that I had. 00:14:50.309 --> 00:14:53.209 Close enough. This one and the other one are both 15 that I sent. 00:14:53.509 --> 00:14:56.769 Now we're getting into some flavors. Where do you want to start? 00:14:57.369 --> 00:15:01.509 Either flavor is going to probably trash your palate Because one's super peppermint 00:15:01.509 --> 00:15:05.889 And the other is super peanut butter I would rather go for the peppermint First 00:15:05.889 --> 00:15:09.749 and then dial it back with the peanut butter Before we get into the winter whipping, 00:15:10.289 --> 00:15:13.989 This is Jerry sent this one out but this is one I usually get Every year too. 00:15:15.629 --> 00:15:23.649 Oh that's like pink Yeah I never realized that Evan I have it in a bowl of ice 00:15:23.649 --> 00:15:27.829 Next to me that way it doesn't It stays ice cold, so I'm dripping everywhere. 00:15:27.989 --> 00:15:31.169 But this is the Evan Williams Peppermint White Chocolate Egg Nug. 00:15:31.329 --> 00:15:33.849 Just a typical shit you find on the shelf. 00:15:34.609 --> 00:15:39.369 Peppermint comes out hard. It's a melted Andes candy. Like those Andes mints, 00:15:39.549 --> 00:15:40.769 that's what it is. It tastes like that. 00:15:41.869 --> 00:15:46.569 It smells great. I will not... A little bit on the thinner side. 00:15:47.449 --> 00:15:52.249 On the nose, at least. That's fantastic. The first time I had it, 00:15:52.609 --> 00:15:54.489 I think it was right after dinner. 00:15:54.969 --> 00:15:58.289 But that peppermint just overpowered it and i was like no this is gonna be terrible, 00:15:59.469 --> 00:16:03.109 tried it again like a night or two later and i was like it's not bad no i like 00:16:03.109 --> 00:16:08.609 it yeah i like it i don't think that peppermint's too strong at all um there's 00:16:08.609 --> 00:16:10.709 enough of the chocolate to kind of, 00:16:11.169 --> 00:16:16.129 yeah i think that chocolate helps it a lot uh-huh yeah that's great that's i like that, 00:16:16.769 --> 00:16:20.449 but yeah when i pull it off the shelf and it's like that it's just a little 00:16:20.449 --> 00:16:23.589 reddish pink in the bottle but you don't notice it until you put it up to like 00:16:23.589 --> 00:16:26.969 a another eggnog and you realize how, 00:16:27.629 --> 00:16:32.249 red it is it's like that's good yeah i. 00:16:35.195 --> 00:16:40.855 I think that would be real good mixed with whiskey or rum, like just kicking 00:16:40.855 --> 00:16:42.695 it up from 15 up to like 40. 00:16:43.635 --> 00:16:49.235 Yeah, this one is one of those that is made with Kentucky straight bourbon, 00:16:49.475 --> 00:16:52.555 blended whiskey, liqueur, rum, and brandy. 00:16:53.195 --> 00:16:54.975 So it has everything in there. 00:16:55.755 --> 00:16:59.815 All right, well, there we go. Down for screwball. 00:17:00.615 --> 00:17:05.415 Yeah, next one I got right here is the screwball. this one I haven't had before until this year. 00:17:05.535 --> 00:17:07.835 I mean, since you guys samples and I'm nipping all a little bit, 00:17:07.875 --> 00:17:13.175 I'm not having but this is eggnog for the Misfits Black Sheet and Screwballs 00:17:13.175 --> 00:17:15.155 with dairy cream and natural flavors. 00:17:15.755 --> 00:17:20.075 It is a peanut butter whiskey, obviously, screwball eggnog, so. 00:17:20.195 --> 00:17:22.355 Oh, I just burped and Melwort came back up. 00:17:22.495 --> 00:17:25.455 Oh, I've done that like twice because I'm drinking beer and it's carbonated as well. 00:17:26.535 --> 00:17:31.895 Didn't want to gross anybody out by saying that, but I've done it like twice because it's not good. 00:17:32.015 --> 00:17:37.435 I hope this goes away sooner than later this pours like peanut butter it is 00:17:37.435 --> 00:17:41.915 thick it's super thick yeah and it's a weird thick it's like the pennsylvania 00:17:41.915 --> 00:17:47.555 dutch was thick this is like a weird i don't know i don't like that tastes like 00:17:47.555 --> 00:17:51.235 liquefied peanut butter crunch. 00:17:52.515 --> 00:17:56.055 What's those those peanut butter cookies that are in the shape of like a peanut 00:17:56.055 --> 00:17:59.975 nutter butter yes that's what this smells like yeah like you open up a package 00:17:59.975 --> 00:18:03.115 of nutter butters That's kind of what the peanut butter flavor tastes like is 00:18:03.115 --> 00:18:05.575 the nutter butter filling like that icing in the nutter butter. 00:18:06.555 --> 00:18:09.895 Wow. That is, Ooh, that peanut butter does go a lot with it though. 00:18:10.095 --> 00:18:11.855 It's good though. I really like it. It really is. 00:18:12.975 --> 00:18:14.435 It's pretty good. Yeah. 00:18:15.830 --> 00:18:20.310 I like take out and drink often, but I do enjoy it. 00:18:20.750 --> 00:18:25.530 You know, it is worth your time. Maybe not so much your money, 00:18:25.690 --> 00:18:29.750 but it's good if you can add your glass. This is pretty damn good. 00:18:31.190 --> 00:18:34.750 Yeah. I bought the bottle of the screwball to mix what they were called like 00:18:34.750 --> 00:18:35.730 peanut butter jelly shots. 00:18:35.870 --> 00:18:38.130 Let's mix it with like Chambord or Port or something like that. 00:18:38.250 --> 00:18:42.490 I do have a bottle of Port up there. I'm going to have to try eggnog peanut butter jelly. 00:18:44.010 --> 00:18:49.830 If you're doing that, you need to get the the blackberry crown and mix it. Oh yeah. 00:18:50.710 --> 00:18:56.510 That's, that's great. Yeah. That, blackberry, blackberry crown was disgusting. 00:18:56.810 --> 00:19:01.310 It was medicine, but I, yeah, decent medicine. 00:19:01.770 --> 00:19:03.790 It wasn't bad. Yeah. 00:19:05.613 --> 00:19:10.233 Well it's not a fair shake because two of them were unflavored two were flavored 00:19:10.233 --> 00:19:15.893 but what do you guys shootout mode what do you what's your order so pennsylvania 00:19:15.893 --> 00:19:18.113 dutch over the peg leg for for, 00:19:19.413 --> 00:19:22.673 unflavored i agree and adam left us he 00:19:22.673 --> 00:19:25.493 doesn't want to decide he doesn't want to vote he said fuck you guys i'm 00:19:25.493 --> 00:19:28.393 out i hate christmas i hate lord i hate eggnog 00:19:28.393 --> 00:19:31.193 i think i'm gonna go the evan williams over 00:19:31.193 --> 00:19:34.393 the screwball for flavored i agree and 00:19:34.393 --> 00:19:37.273 i think i like the screwball but the peanut 00:19:37.273 --> 00:19:44.053 butter gives it some weird like initial flavor uh-huh and i like for me i agree 00:19:44.053 --> 00:19:49.393 i put the pennsylvania dutch over the peg leg for the unflavored evan williams 00:19:49.393 --> 00:19:54.773 over the screwball but i think as a just a total four i think the evan williams 00:19:54.773 --> 00:19:56.433 is number two the pennsylvania Dutch is just, 00:19:56.693 --> 00:19:59.213 it's, that's what eggnog should be in my mind. 00:19:59.333 --> 00:20:03.793 So, but I'm a big fan of the flavored eggnog. So I think the Evan Williams would 00:20:03.793 --> 00:20:05.373 be number two, the screwball would be number three. 00:20:05.853 --> 00:20:08.573 And even though the Peg Lake Porker was damn good, I just like the flavor. 00:20:08.733 --> 00:20:11.473 It's better, but the Pennsylvania Dutch, you can't beat it. 00:20:11.593 --> 00:20:15.433 So the Porker comes in last for me, but it's still delicious. 00:20:15.793 --> 00:20:20.133 I'm, I'm probably right there with you. I think the consistency does something too. 00:20:21.133 --> 00:20:25.053 Like when i think eggnog i think of thicker yeah this 00:20:25.053 --> 00:20:29.993 one is like you said it's almost like whole milk yeah still tastes good but 00:20:29.993 --> 00:20:35.973 yeah completely content with this pennsylvania dutch and then the evan williams 00:20:35.973 --> 00:20:39.093 which honestly i did not think i would like the evan williams i'm not too big 00:20:39.093 --> 00:20:44.873 of a peppermint fan but i like adam said i think it works out with that chocolate that's good what 00:20:44.893 --> 00:20:49.813 do you think adam before we lose you again you got an order yeah so number one 00:20:49.813 --> 00:20:54.153 pennsylvania dutch it's it's really really good i think number two for me was 00:20:54.153 --> 00:21:02.273 the the screwball and then when in peg leg or and then the the and he said fuck you guys again, 00:21:04.785 --> 00:21:09.885 When he comes back, I'm sure he'll finish that thought. He said Pennsylvania 00:21:09.885 --> 00:21:15.605 Dutch screwball, and then he said both the peg leg and Evan Williams, and just dropped him. 00:21:17.025 --> 00:21:24.705 He said his piece, and he is gone. So, not to rush things, but there you go. 00:21:24.845 --> 00:21:27.725 You heard your first two. What's the last two? 00:21:28.065 --> 00:21:33.225 Yeah, so the last two were the Forker and then the Evan Williams. 00:21:34.125 --> 00:21:40.585 Those are That's my order But the Pennsylvania Dutch That's kind of what I always 00:21:40.585 --> 00:21:45.585 think of The flavor profile For traditional eggnog I suppose. 00:21:47.525 --> 00:21:52.085 Yeah I'm probably going to have to Buy a bottle of this Pennsylvania Dutch Yeah 00:21:52.085 --> 00:21:58.265 Do yourself a favor just buy a big old jug We'll move on to A delicious whiskey 00:21:58.265 --> 00:21:59.725 here but I'm the only one That's smoking, 00:22:01.065 --> 00:22:04.005 How's that cigar going with these i like 00:22:04.005 --> 00:22:07.665 it it's good i mean it's i can't say it's like adding 00:22:07.665 --> 00:22:10.745 or taking away i'm in some cream base you 00:22:10.745 --> 00:22:14.085 know product i don't think it's really doing anything i did not go well with 00:22:14.085 --> 00:22:17.605 the malort i'll tell you that much right now it made it worse everything was 00:22:17.605 --> 00:22:21.085 worse with the malort but after oh you're basically putting satan's dick in 00:22:21.085 --> 00:22:25.485 your mouth with that yeah it's real bad i don't recommend pairing malort with 00:22:25.485 --> 00:22:30.065 any cigar it made even the cigar experience for the next couple Apple puffs, bad. 00:22:31.625 --> 00:22:35.045 But I got this out of a, I think it was a sample pack. It's just one of those 00:22:35.045 --> 00:22:38.485 budget cigars. It's the Camacho Unleashed. 00:22:40.405 --> 00:22:44.625 Pretty damn good cigar, though, for probably when you break it out. 00:22:44.645 --> 00:22:48.845 I think it was in a 10-pack for, you know, it's probably like a $3 cigar when 00:22:48.845 --> 00:22:51.145 you break it out of the pack. So... 00:22:51.930 --> 00:22:56.810 Good cigar so i'll bear it up with this next whiskey and we'll see how that goes but camacho, 00:22:57.310 --> 00:23:01.490 they're nothing nothing special coming out but or they're not coming out with 00:23:01.490 --> 00:23:07.650 anything too special like it's all decent sticks i think honestly that one of 00:23:07.650 --> 00:23:11.970 my first well not one of my first but oh yeah one of my first maduros after 00:23:11.970 --> 00:23:15.830 smoking a few and realizing that's what i like i saw. 00:23:16.770 --> 00:23:20.410 Well I saw the Camacho I think they finished it in, 00:23:20.990 --> 00:23:23.970 bourbon barrels or something like that and then they had one in rum barrels and 00:23:23.970 --> 00:23:28.950 then they also had a what I saw was just Maduro but when I smoked it it put 00:23:28.950 --> 00:23:34.110 it on my ass it was like a triple Maduro I was like yep not touching that one 00:23:34.110 --> 00:23:38.890 again that one was that one was but the everything else pretty decent like and 00:23:38.890 --> 00:23:42.430 they're for the prices aren't can't go wrong with them yeah no I mean, 00:23:43.170 --> 00:23:47.450 great draw it's only went out only once and that was during the malort experience 00:23:47.450 --> 00:23:52.690 so neglected it but it's a pretty great burn line i mean for a couple bucks 00:23:52.690 --> 00:23:59.590 these are great cigars all right so moving on to an actual good pour to try to redeem this show. 00:24:14.801 --> 00:24:17.361 2095 winter whiskey. This is 00:24:17.361 --> 00:24:21.401 Kentucky Straight bourbon whiskey made with malted oat and chocolate malt. 00:24:21.881 --> 00:24:25.881 It's a bottom bond featuring malted oats and roasted chocolate malted barley. 00:24:26.061 --> 00:24:30.041 This unique whiskey was inspired by our brewing background. 00:24:30.401 --> 00:24:40.941 65% corn, 20% malted oats, 7% pale ale malt, 5% steel cut raw oats, 3% chocolate malt. 00:24:41.161 --> 00:24:43.681 Age four years. Unapproved. 00:24:44.561 --> 00:24:50.281 Yep it is fantastic so once you yeah it's definitely into it the other day when 00:24:50.281 --> 00:24:54.381 i sent out the samples and was sending some good notes but what do you guys think now after, 00:24:54.981 --> 00:24:59.161 destroying our palates how's it working i'm wondering is this like the same 00:24:59.161 --> 00:25:02.681 do they put out the same mash bill every year for this winter whiskey or is 00:25:02.681 --> 00:25:06.901 it i don't actually know to be honest with you that's something that i would 00:25:06.901 --> 00:25:10.981 have to look up a couple years ago when i was We were in Lexington. 00:25:11.321 --> 00:25:16.241 We were at a bar and I tried it and I remember liking it, but it was also after a couple tours. 00:25:16.581 --> 00:25:21.481 But yeah, it's definitely on the nose is malty and roasted. Mm-hmm. 00:25:23.888 --> 00:25:30.168 Getting different notes now than when i had it i think my palate is trashed from cream and, 00:25:30.828 --> 00:25:39.168 it's delicious but 100 proof feels so hot right now after all this right well i think you you, 00:25:39.628 --> 00:25:43.968 know scorched all your taste buds with that the lord anyway so then you covered 00:25:43.968 --> 00:25:51.548 it up with the the milk oils and now it's just yeah so this no well the first 00:25:51.548 --> 00:25:54.048 couple fours out of this bottle when I tried it, 00:25:54.148 --> 00:25:57.908 when I got it, and then I sent you guys samples. I had a pour when I was pouring samples. 00:25:58.248 --> 00:26:02.388 I was getting like just a coffee bomb. Yeah. I don't get that right now. 00:26:03.088 --> 00:26:09.028 I get a lot of like cinnamon, nutmeg, like those classic bacon spices. 00:26:10.328 --> 00:26:16.828 Yeah. A little bit of like roasted something. It's not so much coffee. 00:26:18.228 --> 00:26:22.608 And on the nose, I get more of the oat influence than I do on the palate. 00:26:24.168 --> 00:26:28.728 Which the oats on the palate could be more because it has a fantastic mouthfeel. 00:26:28.868 --> 00:26:31.648 It just coats the whole mouth with oils and just kind of lingers, 00:26:31.768 --> 00:26:35.828 which could be the oats because there's a few whiskeys I've had with oats in them. 00:26:37.208 --> 00:26:40.368 That's other. Meets a great mouthfeel, like almost creaminess. 00:26:40.528 --> 00:26:41.848 That's how I get that too from the oats. 00:26:42.288 --> 00:26:47.148 But yeah, I get bubblegum comes through a lot for me with the baking spices 00:26:47.148 --> 00:26:51.108 on the palate, which I don't really remember getting. 00:26:51.108 --> 00:26:55.148 Like I said, this was a coffee bottle, the first two pours I had out of this 00:26:55.148 --> 00:27:01.168 bottle, and I don't get hardly any coffee now, which has to be due to the eggnog 00:27:01.168 --> 00:27:03.008 and the malort and the beer and the cigar. 00:27:03.208 --> 00:27:06.748 No, if you chew on it for a minute, the coffee comes out. 00:27:08.117 --> 00:27:13.897 There but it's not like I thought it was coffee grounds in the mash the first 00:27:13.897 --> 00:27:21.857 time I tried this like and it was in a great way because I love coffee coffee creamer there you go. 00:27:23.897 --> 00:27:27.637 Adam sent notes to us when he because he got into the samples right when I sent 00:27:27.637 --> 00:27:31.777 him because he's having some connection problems now all right here we go he 00:27:31.777 --> 00:27:34.917 said that new riff is a fucking coffee bomb, 00:27:36.577 --> 00:27:40.897 he said The one that I just said, holy shit, it's weird. 00:27:41.057 --> 00:27:44.777 First it's funky, then it's bubblegum, then Tootsie Roll, then coffee as fuck. 00:27:45.277 --> 00:27:51.137 So those were his notes that he texted us when he received the samples. 00:27:51.837 --> 00:27:55.737 So yeah, he liked it a lot, and he got the coffee that I was getting. 00:27:56.037 --> 00:28:02.337 Yeah, for me, there's a lot of that roasted or coffee-type notes on the finish that just stick around. 00:28:04.577 --> 00:28:12.477 Like roasted malt dark malt and what what is what is it actually considered is it just a whiskey or, 00:28:13.477 --> 00:28:17.577 kentucky straight bourbon whiskey made with malted oat and chocolate malt, 00:28:18.317 --> 00:28:24.797 yeah it's a little winter whiskey i don't remember i want to say 60 bucks maybe 00:28:24.797 --> 00:28:28.777 something like that i don't remember what i paid i just i saw it on the shelf 00:28:28.777 --> 00:28:30.397 for the first time like a week ago, 00:28:31.097 --> 00:28:34.137 this first time this year and i figured hey we need something for 00:28:34.137 --> 00:28:36.957 the holidays some kind of holiday theme pour so 00:28:36.957 --> 00:28:41.657 i grabbed it i've had it before i don't think i don't remember if i had it last 00:28:41.657 --> 00:28:44.957 year but i know two years ago i definitely bought a bottle and i don't remember 00:28:44.957 --> 00:28:48.757 being this coffee forward so that's something i might want to look into to see 00:28:48.757 --> 00:28:52.017 if they do change up the mash bills year to year i would imagine they probably 00:28:52.017 --> 00:28:55.037 do but maybe not but it's a good one. 00:28:57.341 --> 00:29:00.861 That's, I can see people not, let's see, 00:29:02.041 --> 00:29:06.501 according to, I don't know what it is, whatever Google AIs is, 00:29:06.681 --> 00:29:08.261 when you Google search something, 00:29:08.581 --> 00:29:12.721 says New Rift's annual winter whiskey release changes slightly each year because 00:29:12.721 --> 00:29:18.741 it's unique seasonal bourbon recipe or mash bill featuring oats aiming to mimic 00:29:18.741 --> 00:29:20.641 an oatmeal stout, which, yeah. 00:29:21.701 --> 00:29:24.581 Of style style yeah yeah it's really 00:29:24.581 --> 00:29:27.781 good though if you haven't tried the winter 00:29:27.781 --> 00:29:30.821 whiskey from new riff definitely go get it every i mean just about 00:29:30.821 --> 00:29:33.581 everything yeah from new riff is good i think the only thing i've 00:29:33.581 --> 00:29:36.421 ever had that i didn't really like was that they didn't they put out something that 00:29:36.421 --> 00:29:39.261 was peated that's where i remember them putting out something 00:29:39.261 --> 00:29:42.821 i don't know heated that was you know anything i'm 00:29:42.821 --> 00:29:45.861 ruining whatever you're peating stop using 00:29:45.861 --> 00:29:49.281 peat people i really like the rye or this 00:29:49.281 --> 00:29:52.281 was also two three years ago really 00:29:52.281 --> 00:29:56.321 like the rye i know they've come out with i think an eight year now the bourbon 00:29:56.321 --> 00:30:00.601 is good i prefer the rye over the bourbon but the bourbon's really good now 00:30:00.601 --> 00:30:03.861 they have like i said the eight year age statements if i remember correctly 00:30:03.861 --> 00:30:08.501 i've had a couple single barrels both bourbon and rye i have a bottle of the 00:30:08.501 --> 00:30:10.661 malted rye in there right now the six year. 00:30:11.381 --> 00:30:15.321 I've sampled the sherry finish smalted rye which is fantastic. 00:30:16.241 --> 00:30:21.001 Hopefully soon we'll be able to try the New Rift Chattanooga from Adam. 00:30:21.181 --> 00:30:22.201 He said he's sending some of that. 00:30:22.961 --> 00:30:27.921 And in there I have the Chattanooga version of it so it'd be a fun little side 00:30:27.921 --> 00:30:30.461 by side with those. I haven't opened it yet to try it yet. 00:30:30.901 --> 00:30:36.361 But yeah, New Rift's doing good things and they're priced pretty fucking decent. 00:30:36.921 --> 00:30:43.781 Shit, like 40-50 bucks for their standard bottle and bond offering they're malted 00:30:43.781 --> 00:30:49.221 rise this winter whiskey i think is 60 70 bucks at most 75, 00:30:49.841 --> 00:30:54.141 or limited editions or limited runs whatever you want to call them yeah and 00:30:54.141 --> 00:30:57.821 everybody's used to it now but i mean they got the greatest bottles i mean yeah 00:30:57.821 --> 00:31:00.621 that black that black top but 00:31:00.621 --> 00:31:04.101 then it fades halfway down the bottle so you can actually see the liquid. 00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:11.219 Awesome looking models and i'd rather it that way than the other way yeah i'd 00:31:11.219 --> 00:31:13.919 rather it be clear on the bottom than on top so at least you can see how much 00:31:13.919 --> 00:31:20.259 you have left right yep yeah so that's good it yeah it almost reminds me like 00:31:20.259 --> 00:31:23.679 they took a a coffee stout or something and then just, 00:31:24.139 --> 00:31:29.159 threw it in the still and let it run you know like i said the times i've had before i was, 00:31:29.779 --> 00:31:33.339 you could have told me they put coffee grounds in the mash and and i would have 00:31:33.339 --> 00:31:37.659 believed you So I'm not getting that right now, but it's still there. 00:31:37.819 --> 00:31:40.819 Like I said, it's more of like a coffee stout. There's a sweetness to it. 00:31:41.539 --> 00:31:43.379 That's really good. Definite creaminess. 00:31:45.739 --> 00:31:51.059 Yeah, that's really good. Yeah. Other than that, Malort wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. 00:31:51.479 --> 00:31:55.539 No, everything. Yeah, everything else was great. I don't know that they all pair well together. 00:31:56.999 --> 00:32:01.519 Mixing egg yolks and good whiskey and Malort and a beer and a cigar and yeah, 00:32:01.619 --> 00:32:05.819 just all over the place. But I really, yeah, all four of those eggnogs. 00:32:05.899 --> 00:32:10.979 Now we got to find, we got to do it like a part B go live or something. 00:32:11.159 --> 00:32:15.219 I'll find the worst fucking eggnogs I can find. And we'll do like three of those 00:32:15.219 --> 00:32:19.179 live because there's some pretty, pretty nasty ones. 00:32:19.459 --> 00:32:22.639 We got this idea from, I forget the guy's name. 00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:26.859 I feel bad that I don't remember his name. But there's a guy on Instagram that 00:32:26.859 --> 00:32:32.559 does reviews of, you know, cocktails and whatever else. 00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:36.799 And he did a, I don't know what to do, like 12 eggnog review. 00:32:38.203 --> 00:32:41.663 I think he did it, like a three-part series, and he had... It did. 00:32:41.903 --> 00:32:50.303 There you go. I found him. It's J-M underscore Hirsch, H-I-R-S-C-H, J-M underscore Hirsch. 00:32:50.923 --> 00:32:54.483 Yeah, and he does a lot of cocktail reviews. I just clicked on him, 00:32:54.483 --> 00:32:57.443 and he's doing some kind of food review right now, but he's funny as hell. 00:32:57.663 --> 00:33:01.643 I think he did like 12 eggnog reviews, and he had some pretty fat ones in there. 00:33:01.743 --> 00:33:06.003 I think he had a buzz ball cocktail, which just sounds horrible. 00:33:06.003 --> 00:33:10.063 So maybe we'll have to try to find some of those and see if we can find some 00:33:10.063 --> 00:33:14.103 bad ones because I think we picked pretty good ones for these four. 00:33:14.403 --> 00:33:16.923 So thanks to him for giving us the idea to do this. 00:33:17.463 --> 00:33:19.923 I honestly thought the Evan Williams was going to be a bad one. 00:33:20.543 --> 00:33:24.003 See, I've had that one before, and I know I like that one. So when you said 00:33:24.003 --> 00:33:25.803 you were getting that one, because I was going to grab that one, 00:33:25.863 --> 00:33:27.983 I was going to do the Pennsylvania Dutch in that one. 00:33:28.043 --> 00:33:30.743 And then I think you had texted me first and said you grabbed that one. 00:33:30.803 --> 00:33:32.763 And then I just came across the screwball one. I was like, oh, 00:33:32.903 --> 00:33:34.543 perfect. We can go peanut butter and pepper. 00:33:35.463 --> 00:33:38.343 So i'm looking right now i could 00:33:38.343 --> 00:33:42.023 pick up a midnight moon which does those like moonshines 00:33:42.023 --> 00:33:45.603 their holiday nog milkshake 00:33:45.603 --> 00:33:51.263 the southern comfort yule nog i don't remember last time i had a southern comfort 00:33:51.263 --> 00:33:59.963 college maybe yes the fireball yule nog oh i saw that one i think i saw that 00:33:59.963 --> 00:34:02.843 one today because I stopped and got some of these, 00:34:02.943 --> 00:34:09.283 a sample pack of these trogues earlier today and I saw the Yule Nog fireball 00:34:09.283 --> 00:34:14.803 or whatever and I kind of made my stomach turn but that's probably a good one 00:34:14.803 --> 00:34:16.263 to have for a bad episode. 00:34:17.723 --> 00:34:23.203 Yeah. The standard Evan Williams is everywhere. Pennsylvania Dutch is most places. 00:34:23.583 --> 00:34:25.123 Let's see what Total Wine has. 00:34:25.923 --> 00:34:27.843 Total Wine usually has a bunch of shit. 00:34:29.264 --> 00:34:32.784 They have one there. I was in that dump. 00:34:32.984 --> 00:34:38.724 Oh, here we go. They have one that they always push at the door that I've tried. Two stars eggnog. 00:34:39.144 --> 00:34:43.564 That might be it. Because I always have around the holidays because I stopped in there. 00:34:43.884 --> 00:34:49.084 I had to go in there the other day or last week because no one around me had 00:34:49.084 --> 00:34:53.844 a bottle that we're going to have on the New Year's episode. Nobody else had it. 00:34:54.464 --> 00:34:59.144 Total Wine did. So, unfortunately, I had to bite my tongue and go into that dump. 00:34:59.264 --> 00:35:03.324 And they were doing samples and I think it might have been the two stars egg 00:35:03.324 --> 00:35:07.564 dog had a little holiday sample he had like three things he was tasting right when you walk in the door, 00:35:08.064 --> 00:35:11.184 I can't imagine it's any good I didn't I didn't try it I was trying to get in 00:35:11.184 --> 00:35:16.204 and out is the wine around the holidays is even worse than it is any other time of year. 00:35:17.824 --> 00:35:23.744 Misunderstood oat nog oat milk liqueur made with oat milk and misunderstood 00:35:23.744 --> 00:35:26.824 whiskey Did you say oat milk liqueur? 00:35:27.224 --> 00:35:34.864 Yeah, so instead of eggnog, I'm guessing it's a dairy-free, basically, eggnog. 00:35:35.744 --> 00:35:42.364 Okay. And I'm guessing they put the spiced ginger or ginger spice whiskey in it. Okay. 00:35:43.144 --> 00:35:47.704 Big fan of ginger. There's a ginger whiskey out there that I forget who makes 00:35:47.704 --> 00:35:50.504 it, but it's really good. I don't know. 00:35:50.944 --> 00:35:53.864 I don't know how I feel about that. 00:35:53.864 --> 00:35:59.704 And no, what I did get the other day is a coconut milk eggnog just from the 00:35:59.704 --> 00:36:04.364 supermarket because it was just marked down to like $2.99, no alcohol in it, 00:36:04.444 --> 00:36:06.064 but pretty good, actually. 00:36:06.264 --> 00:36:10.864 It's one of those hippie nogs for people who can't drink dairy, but it wasn't bad. 00:36:11.304 --> 00:36:18.144 Oak milk might not be horrible. I don't know just something I saw along with 00:36:18.144 --> 00:36:27.564 the benchmark and the sugar lens sipping cream and then their winter haven farms 00:36:27.564 --> 00:36:30.164 eggnog which is another one of their spirits direct. 00:36:32.715 --> 00:36:40.035 And it says it is crammed full of goodness i'm sure it is or it is well, 00:36:41.555 --> 00:36:48.395 yeah this is definitely full of goodness yeah i could yeah the the as i'm sitting 00:36:48.395 --> 00:36:52.595 here because it's cold outside i brought this bottle from my house and outside 00:36:52.595 --> 00:36:57.375 and the colder it gets the more bubble gum comes out i don't i'm just getting 00:36:57.375 --> 00:36:59.455 this bubble gummy sweetness it's delicious, 00:37:00.415 --> 00:37:05.915 go to ice cube and this thing it's probably going to be completely different whiskey yeah this has. 00:37:08.515 --> 00:37:12.135 Everything that i get from a single malt american single malt you get the roast 00:37:12.135 --> 00:37:16.055 in it well not all but depending on different distilleries but you got that 00:37:16.055 --> 00:37:17.795 roastedness you got that maltiness but, 00:37:19.235 --> 00:37:22.115 yeah there's a little bit of that bubble gum in there for me in the 00:37:22.115 --> 00:37:25.035 mid palate but that pops up sometimes 00:37:25.035 --> 00:37:27.775 with malted stuff for me yeah yeah i get 00:37:27.775 --> 00:37:31.035 that sometimes with most of the time with wheat whiskeys but 00:37:31.035 --> 00:37:36.655 sometimes with single malts and i like it yeah i'll have to dig out a couple 00:37:36.655 --> 00:37:41.835 years back we were in tennessee nashville area and we went to uh corsair up 00:37:41.835 --> 00:37:46.895 there by right on the other side of the street of nelson's greenbrier and i 00:37:46.895 --> 00:37:50.755 picked up their i think it's called oak rage Yes. 00:37:51.035 --> 00:37:54.015 It's made with like malted and unmalted oats or some shit like that. 00:37:54.135 --> 00:37:57.555 I'll have to send some of that out because it, well, from last time I had a, 00:37:57.655 --> 00:38:05.415 this kind of reminds me of a same kind of chocolatey, cocoa, coffee, just vibe to it. 00:38:06.215 --> 00:38:10.055 That's really good. Yeah. Well. Now for science, we mix it with Malort. 00:38:11.075 --> 00:38:15.615 Go for it. I already did. I'm not going back. I got, I got that out of the way early. 00:38:15.775 --> 00:38:19.155 I did my Malort nog and I do not recommend it. 00:38:20.397 --> 00:38:23.017 Actually, I do recommend it. Everybody try it. It was fantastic. 00:38:23.917 --> 00:38:26.697 My Lord, it's the perfect spirit to mix with your favorite eggnog. 00:38:27.017 --> 00:38:32.057 Serve it chilled to your guests these holiday season, and you'll get nothing but compliments. 00:38:32.757 --> 00:38:37.997 I think these liquid ministries, if you fill it up to the top like you do, 00:38:38.097 --> 00:38:40.237 I think is just over two and a quarter ounces. 00:38:40.877 --> 00:38:45.837 And I have two ounces. So I basically drink a quarter ounce, 00:38:45.937 --> 00:38:50.177 maybe a little bit more, and it'll sit like that until someone else wants to try it. 00:38:50.937 --> 00:38:54.017 Yeah no i'm not i'm not reaching for the malort by 00:38:54.017 --> 00:38:58.777 myself i mean i'm i've had this bottle for probably five years i think our buddy 00:38:58.777 --> 00:39:05.057 mike and i was gonna say looking at the wax stop it most likely him yeah i'm 00:39:05.057 --> 00:39:09.137 pretty sure he sent me this one like five years ago and i remember taking i 00:39:09.137 --> 00:39:13.957 think last christmas or last thanksgiving and got my family with the old chicago trick, 00:39:14.617 --> 00:39:17.957 to try it, and everybody thanked me profusely. 00:39:18.417 --> 00:39:21.257 They were very pleased that they got a chance to try it. 00:39:22.357 --> 00:39:26.597 And then the rest of it's just been sampled out. Never drank this by myself. 00:39:27.077 --> 00:39:28.517 I don't think I ever will. 00:39:29.177 --> 00:39:32.377 That's exactly what Malort is good for. Malort is made to share. 00:39:33.237 --> 00:39:37.557 And to make enemies. And one $25 bottle will last you five to ten years. 00:39:39.417 --> 00:39:43.297 That is terrible. I'm sorry, Jepstons, but that shit is terrible. 00:39:43.297 --> 00:39:47.337 No nothing against jepson's because i mean they source they source a bourbon 00:39:47.337 --> 00:39:53.937 for like 25 bucks that's pretty goddamn good yeah so i got it as a i saw it 00:39:53.937 --> 00:39:57.437 on the shelf and i was like you got to be kidding me this is gonna be like is 00:39:57.437 --> 00:40:02.357 this their new joke they have a horrible bourbon now and i bought it and i was like pretty, 00:40:03.707 --> 00:40:07.247 Goddamn good. So they know what they're doing. They didn't. 00:40:07.807 --> 00:40:13.687 This isn't one of those ones where it's just crap because they cut corners and they're making. 00:40:13.927 --> 00:40:16.687 Yeah. You check their ads out. YouTube Malort. 00:40:17.687 --> 00:40:21.567 It's it's fucking hilarious. The commercials they put out for their own product. 00:40:22.087 --> 00:40:25.227 They know it's trash. They know it's horrible. And that's why they make it. 00:40:25.827 --> 00:40:30.707 So props to Malort. They got a nice little beach market there. Yeah. 00:40:31.647 --> 00:40:36.147 They ran with it. good for them they know people are going to buy it just to 00:40:36.147 --> 00:40:42.807 basically what we did sample it out and just get people to try it and if you're 00:40:42.807 --> 00:40:47.547 ever in chicago visiting friends and they try to convince you because that's 00:40:47.547 --> 00:40:50.227 their big joke out there because that's where this product is from, 00:40:50.807 --> 00:40:56.107 do your best trust me do your best to take it without a face and tell them it's 00:40:56.107 --> 00:40:59.707 delicious can i have another because you'll be the first person that ever said that. 00:41:01.667 --> 00:41:04.447 You definitely have to try it you got to try it at least once 00:41:04.447 --> 00:41:07.467 yeah yeah you definitely do it's 00:41:07.467 --> 00:41:11.607 like that what are those like that swedish canned 00:41:11.607 --> 00:41:14.867 fish that's like the worst smelling thing in the world yeah like 00:41:14.867 --> 00:41:17.627 you see those challenges where people are throwing up right when 00:41:17.627 --> 00:41:20.627 they pop the tin and they can't you know or that that fruit 00:41:20.627 --> 00:41:23.927 what's that fruit there's a it looks 00:41:23.927 --> 00:41:26.907 like like a jackfruit and it's like supposedly tastes like 00:41:26.907 --> 00:41:29.987 fucking ice cream flavored with eggs or something yeah 00:41:29.987 --> 00:41:34.527 i forget the fucking name of that freak now but yeah it's 00:41:34.527 --> 00:41:38.447 like it's like one of those it's like it's so bad and everybody knows it's bad 00:41:38.447 --> 00:41:41.647 but you kind of got to try it because it's so bad you're not going in like oh 00:41:41.647 --> 00:41:45.187 you might like you might not you're gonna fucking ate it but you still got to 00:41:45.187 --> 00:41:49.747 try it you know it's not gonna kill you you drink a whole bottle it might because 00:41:49.747 --> 00:41:53.867 who the fuck knows what that's made out of but um you know one shot ain't gonna kill you. 00:41:59.371 --> 00:42:02.171 Durian that's the fucking fruit look up videos of people 00:42:02.171 --> 00:42:05.611 eating durian just came out i've never 00:42:05.611 --> 00:42:08.991 tried it i've smelt that fish i didn't try it and 00:42:08.991 --> 00:42:11.891 it makes you your mouth water from like right 00:42:11.891 --> 00:42:14.651 before you're about to throw up when your mouth water is just by smelling i smelled it 00:42:14.651 --> 00:42:17.451 like 15 feet away i don't even want to 00:42:17.451 --> 00:42:20.211 it smells like a dead 00:42:20.211 --> 00:42:22.911 body it's durian i've 00:42:22.911 --> 00:42:26.131 never had an experience with i would try it just because i'm 00:42:26.131 --> 00:42:29.651 a glutton for punishment but i've watched videos of people cracking 00:42:29.651 --> 00:42:34.691 open a durian fruit and pulling it out and they say it tastes like egg flavored 00:42:34.691 --> 00:42:38.811 like hard-boiled egg flavored ice cream and i don't think i want anything to 00:42:38.811 --> 00:42:46.411 do with that but i tried sulfur sewage and onions but creamy custard like sweetness there you go, 00:42:47.953 --> 00:42:56.773 sounds just like the lord it sounds delicious off-gassing e-man used motor oil 00:42:56.773 --> 00:43:03.913 and lawn clippings in a puddle and that's those are good enticing. 00:43:06.133 --> 00:43:11.113 Notes on that it's much worse but i don't think i've ever had anything to equal 00:43:11.113 --> 00:43:17.773 that that i can at least equate another tasting note to it so So, Merry Christmas. Yeah. 00:43:18.453 --> 00:43:22.873 Yeah. If you say so with this. Well, with the malort. Everything else was good. 00:43:23.453 --> 00:43:27.933 I will say before this whole experiment, or whatever you want to call this episode, 00:43:28.533 --> 00:43:30.913 I'm only had like, I don't even remember what it was. 00:43:31.253 --> 00:43:34.793 I think it was like two different eggnogs. I did not like them whatsoever. 00:43:35.513 --> 00:43:41.373 But then I bought the, like I said, the Evan Williams and the Pegnog eggnog. 00:43:42.413 --> 00:43:45.193 And they were pretty decent. And that Pennsylvania Dutch, though, 00:43:45.413 --> 00:43:49.073 that might be something I pick up and throw in the refrigerator for the season. 00:43:49.953 --> 00:43:53.793 Yeah, there's definitely some good eggnogs out there. 00:43:54.773 --> 00:43:58.593 Alton Brown, food wizard. You Google his eggnog recipe. 00:43:59.293 --> 00:44:03.193 I did it a couple years ago. You actually make it on Thanksgiving, 00:44:03.193 --> 00:44:10.133 and you age it unrefrigerated in a dark place, like up in your cabinet, until Christmas. 00:44:10.133 --> 00:44:15.613 So you have raw eggs, milk, cream, all that stuff, unrefrigerated, 00:44:15.913 --> 00:44:18.673 aged, and it is fucking fantastic. 00:44:19.073 --> 00:44:21.993 I don't know how that works, but... 00:44:23.468 --> 00:44:26.988 Great recipe out there i know other people do too as well but alph 00:44:26.988 --> 00:44:30.368 brown is he's got some good recipes like yeah and 00:44:30.368 --> 00:44:33.488 he's he's a cocktail mix recipes oh yeah he likes to 00:44:33.488 --> 00:44:36.868 imbibe so i really like he's got a new uh i 00:44:36.868 --> 00:44:39.528 think a new youtube channel that he's been putting out a 00:44:39.528 --> 00:44:42.328 couple videos here recently i've been watching where he's doing stuff from 00:44:42.328 --> 00:44:45.228 out of his house just doing some recipes and some cocktails and things 00:44:45.228 --> 00:44:48.088 like that i like out in brown but uh yeah his 00:44:48.088 --> 00:44:51.068 eggnog recipe is is a pretty good one if you want to try something 00:44:51.068 --> 00:44:54.148 weird where you're just literally throwing raw 00:44:54.148 --> 00:45:00.788 eggs and milk into a cabinet unrefrigerated turns out fantastic sounds terrible 00:45:00.788 --> 00:45:06.208 turns out fantastic i'm telling you yeah one thing i make every couple years 00:45:06.208 --> 00:45:12.388 probably every two years is uh an allspice dram and his recipe for allspice dram is fantastic. 00:45:14.051 --> 00:45:17.551 I'll put in i think he he puts in 00:45:17.551 --> 00:45:20.471 a dark rum proof that 00:45:20.471 --> 00:45:25.871 151 or something like that a little bit of it the first time i made it i had 00:45:25.871 --> 00:45:34.671 the oftd which is one was it 138 proof yeah 138 i think 139 something like that 00:45:34.671 --> 00:45:37.731 i use that instead just because i didn't feel like going out and buying a bottle 00:45:37.731 --> 00:45:40.231 of 151 that I'll never use other than this recipe. 00:45:41.571 --> 00:45:44.651 That OFTD is, is where it's like, I'll use that. 00:45:44.771 --> 00:45:48.911 And then I'll use a little bit of just regular rum, just a dark rum, 00:45:49.091 --> 00:45:52.831 aged rum, nothing too crazy. And it it's, it's fantastic. 00:45:53.111 --> 00:45:55.751 I'll make, I make that every probably about two years. 00:45:56.391 --> 00:46:00.751 Don't use it too much just because during the summer I love making cocktails, 00:46:00.951 --> 00:46:04.111 but then I'll do like a week of it and then realize I 00:46:04.111 --> 00:46:06.911 ran out of this ingredient and I don't make it for another 00:46:06.911 --> 00:46:10.091 year because i don't want to go buy one 00:46:10.091 --> 00:46:12.731 ingredient that i can't find in store so i 00:46:12.731 --> 00:46:15.771 got to pay shipping on it so it pisses me off until next year 00:46:15.771 --> 00:46:19.951 when i was like i don't know let me buy some more shit i just made i think i 00:46:19.951 --> 00:46:23.631 told you guys i made the alton brown milk punch which i've never made before 00:46:23.631 --> 00:46:28.271 horrible experience don't i mean ask somebody else to make milk punch for you 00:46:28.271 --> 00:46:32.591 because delicious and i i was i forgot to send you guys samples because you 00:46:32.591 --> 00:46:33.451 don't have to refrigerate, 00:46:33.931 --> 00:46:37.851 refrigerate that either, which doesn't make any sense to me, but it's delicious. 00:46:38.131 --> 00:46:43.371 It's so good, and I used Halton Brown's recipe, but yeah, it takes some time. 00:46:43.531 --> 00:46:48.091 You make a lot of dirty dishes when you make it, but you get a good result. 00:46:48.391 --> 00:46:49.771 His recipe's free. Yeah, I'm good. 00:46:50.611 --> 00:46:55.851 Well, Jerry, you got anything left in your glass? I do, but raise your glass up. 00:46:56.051 --> 00:46:59.491 I have a real-time update, and it won't be a spoiler because nobody's going 00:46:59.491 --> 00:47:00.511 to hear this until we post it. 00:47:01.151 --> 00:47:05.191 Kansas and Chiefs have been eliminated from the playoffs. Cheers to the Chargers. 00:47:07.264 --> 00:47:09.904 That that was the sweetest sip I've had all day. 00:47:11.924 --> 00:47:17.744 Yeah. So we got one more episode after this one drops next, next week will be 00:47:17.744 --> 00:47:19.364 our, uh, new year special. 00:47:19.944 --> 00:47:24.324 No, we have at least one very, very good board for that one that I sent you guys. 00:47:24.724 --> 00:47:28.024 Yeah. We got that one. I don't know if we want to do anything else or just we'll 00:47:28.024 --> 00:47:30.284 have to figure out what we want to do for that one. 00:47:31.644 --> 00:47:36.644 But yeah, so we got one more this year and then getting into the new year. 00:47:36.644 --> 00:47:39.124 I know we slowed down here a little bit with guests. 00:47:39.464 --> 00:47:43.744 That's just because of holidays and whatnot, but there's a few that either we 00:47:43.744 --> 00:47:45.704 have scheduled or have agreed to come on. 00:47:45.844 --> 00:47:49.544 We just got to figure out right time for it. So come new year, 00:47:49.544 --> 00:47:54.984 I feel like I'm trying to look at the calendar right now. I don't know if I put anything in yet. 00:47:55.444 --> 00:47:59.304 We do have a few to hit start out strong, hopefully. 00:47:59.624 --> 00:48:05.744 So yeah. Um, and then a few others that I've been talking to on the side to 00:48:05.744 --> 00:48:10.944 see, and we're just, again, trying to find the best time just cause obviously 00:48:10.944 --> 00:48:14.244 the schedules are all crazy holidays and whatnot. 00:48:14.624 --> 00:48:18.544 A lot of people, a lot of people I just told I'll, I'll contact you first of 00:48:18.544 --> 00:48:21.584 the year after the first year and we'll figure this out again, 00:48:21.824 --> 00:48:25.804 just cause half the time, I don't even know what day it is now between work, 00:48:25.984 --> 00:48:30.104 having random days off, having vacation days off. I don't know what's going on halftime nowadays. 00:48:32.020 --> 00:48:36.260 Holidays can be happy so everybody's schedules are a little crazy so we're gonna 00:48:36.260 --> 00:48:39.700 coast through like everybody else does and yeah hit it hard in the new year 00:48:39.700 --> 00:48:42.380 yep hopefully i got some ideas, 00:48:42.840 --> 00:48:45.780 got some more blind pours that have ideas for i know 00:48:45.780 --> 00:48:49.040 paul does yeah i like doing blind tastings 00:48:49.040 --> 00:48:52.080 big fan of blinds i do blinds by myself i know 00:48:52.080 --> 00:48:55.240 you have your blind yeah i got that solo blind the spinny 00:48:55.240 --> 00:48:57.900 thing the solo blind yeah that's that's awesome i need to give me one of 00:48:57.900 --> 00:49:00.840 those because i do it the old the the just the 00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:03.780 white trash way where i put a little label on the bottom and close my 00:49:03.780 --> 00:49:07.260 eyes and mix them up and spill some half the time yeah but 00:49:07.260 --> 00:49:10.500 that solar blind's a pretty cool little thing it's like a looks like a little 00:49:10.500 --> 00:49:15.520 poker chip holder where you just put your your dark lens in and you literally 00:49:15.520 --> 00:49:21.380 just spin it you know so shit what you could do is go to home goods or target 00:49:21.380 --> 00:49:24.040 or somewhere and get one of those what do you call those things that you put 00:49:24.040 --> 00:49:25.360 in the middle of the table that spins. 00:49:25.880 --> 00:49:29.140 Lazy Susan. Lazy Susan. Just grab one of those and then grab a fucking bowl 00:49:29.140 --> 00:49:31.080 or something that sits on top of your thing. Just spin it. 00:49:31.460 --> 00:49:34.940 That's pretty much what it is. That's what it is. Yeah. 00:49:35.680 --> 00:49:38.420 Kind of cool though. But yeah. So no, I like doing blind. So I think we'll do 00:49:38.420 --> 00:49:39.620 a couple more blind episodes. 00:49:39.780 --> 00:49:43.760 Yeah, I got in the new year. I got at least two in mind. 00:49:44.100 --> 00:49:47.140 I'm sure I could grab some more. That's just right off the top of my head. 00:49:47.440 --> 00:49:48.660 Mainly because I want to do them. 00:49:49.400 --> 00:49:52.400 You can just kind of see them. But I definitely have a few in mind. 00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:58.140 And then like I said hopefully we'll get some more cool guests on here we got 00:49:58.140 --> 00:50:03.580 a couple whether they're scheduled or unofficially scheduled right now so. 00:50:06.310 --> 00:50:09.050 Things coming we had to figure out what we want to do next week 00:50:09.050 --> 00:50:11.890 for the new year's special but we do have that one 00:50:11.890 --> 00:50:14.650 fantastic four we could put malort with it too if 00:50:14.650 --> 00:50:17.450 you want just because i got two ounces left that's going 00:50:17.450 --> 00:50:20.370 to last me however long that's going to be sitting around 00:50:20.370 --> 00:50:23.630 for there's no reason to do it but why not 00:50:23.630 --> 00:50:27.110 this sample glass is getting or those little liquid ministry 00:50:27.110 --> 00:50:29.850 bottles being thrown out whenever the bottle gets empty there's no 00:50:29.850 --> 00:50:32.670 cleaning enough yeah i was thinking that like 00:50:32.670 --> 00:50:35.990 i don't want you to send me some delicious pour in 00:50:35.990 --> 00:50:39.270 that liquid ministry bottle make sure you just burn that 00:50:39.270 --> 00:50:41.890 bottle you could probably get it out of the 00:50:41.890 --> 00:50:45.150 glass it's the plastic topper and what 00:50:45.150 --> 00:50:47.990 do you call it the little plastic seal in 00:50:47.990 --> 00:50:51.310 there that yeah you'll never yeah you'll never get it out of the glass you get 00:50:51.310 --> 00:50:55.810 it out of i don't know i don't know if anything would for me glass i think it 00:50:55.810 --> 00:51:01.710 could be malort oh all right just glad that got out of my system no let's do 00:51:01.710 --> 00:51:05.270 it jerry come on it's christmas god one more let's sign off. 00:51:07.290 --> 00:51:10.410 My hand is shaking do you see this my hand 00:51:10.410 --> 00:51:13.870 is shaking holding this shot glass and 00:51:13.870 --> 00:51:16.730 there's a little tiny bit 00:51:16.730 --> 00:51:20.070 of eggnog left over in that thing oh maybe it was i filled 00:51:20.070 --> 00:51:23.010 it up to about the same spot i did last time maybe these glasses maybe 00:51:23.010 --> 00:51:27.210 these glasses are two and a half ounces because i'm at like just 00:51:27.210 --> 00:51:31.370 at the ounce and a half so maybe just just 00:51:31.370 --> 00:51:34.470 pouring that in there like a knot in my throat yeah my mouth 00:51:34.470 --> 00:51:37.270 is watering oh my throat is dry as hell 00:51:37.270 --> 00:51:41.430 but my mouth is just it's not like oh when the waitress is bringing your steak 00:51:41.430 --> 00:51:46.410 mouth watering it's the like i'm about to throw up yeah watering yeah my jaw 00:51:46.410 --> 00:51:51.470 is clenching clenching i can't even speak right my jaw is clenching my throat 00:51:51.470 --> 00:51:57.010 is dry my mouth is just getting ready for all right well, 00:51:57.590 --> 00:52:01.130 Merry Christmas all you want to sign us out Jerry and then we'll do this and 00:52:01.130 --> 00:52:06.610 you can kill it so yeah let's throw up so that does it for another episode of 00:52:06.610 --> 00:52:07.730 bourbon beards of Belvedere's. 00:52:09.209 --> 00:52:12.789 Of us here we want to wish you guys Merry Christmas Happy Hanukkah and whatever 00:52:12.789 --> 00:52:17.189 other holidays that you guys take part of remember to, 00:52:17.729 --> 00:52:22.349 take care of children veterans do what you can we got that giveaway that no 00:52:22.349 --> 00:52:26.249 one really did much with so we'll have to see if we can find a better time except 00:52:26.249 --> 00:52:28.229 for the holidays so maybe what, 00:52:29.429 --> 00:52:34.129 February March when nothing's going on give people some time to recoup we'll 00:52:34.129 --> 00:52:38.689 have to do something else but yeah just Merry Christmas Happy Hanukkah happy 00:52:38.689 --> 00:52:43.869 well not happy new year yet because we'll have to do that next week but until next week, 00:52:44.989 --> 00:52:46.649 cheers cheers guys. 00:52:50.789 --> 00:52:52.029 It does not get better. 00:53:44.579 --> 00:53:50.159 Adam Bolden, Paul Rousseau, and Jerry Ullman. 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