How to properly drink whiskey!

hey Dad yes sir um I'm not a big whiskey drinker so how do you suggest I start you know in this whiskey game take a sip of that it's water that's right take a sip of the water and I want to pour a little whiskey in here for you this is a Glenn Karen snifter glass this is the one of the best ways I think to appreciate a good whiskey now just take a little sip of that [Music] okay tell me what you think what do you what's the first thing that comes to mind not so much the flavor just the first the first thing to hit your tongue a little a little smoky almost like a burning sensation I would say okay good take a sip of water and leave it in your mouth that's it leave it in your mouth don't swallow it got it now add this to it and tell me what you think leave it in there it's good huh now how did that go diluted because it was diluted okay now it's diluted but you still get any of the properties of of the bourbon um all right so but that's fine so what happens is everybody has their own palette and their own preference so we can have this drink a lot of different ways first way is neat nothing in it we could take this serving neat and we can enjoy it like that okay we could further enhance that serving by adding just a little bit of water a splash of water that's another a second way of drinking that burger okay a third way of drinking that bourbon would be to take a little Cube okay and you drop your cube in there so so far with this one pour we put a splash of water we put a little Cube and there is a different way of drinking that take a sip of that notice the difference subtle subtle and easier to drink and the temperature what's the temperature like a little colder a little bit a little bit smaller small Ice Cube but it's a little colder a little smoother and again your palate's going to be different than let's say my palette when I drink it so right now we already have three different ways from neat to a little splash of water to a small cube and drinking it out of our snifter glass all right let's go with your traditional most bars the way they serve it right we have our one Cube we have our big rocks Cube okay we can take this and we go over one Cube now what this will do this is going to give us a much slower process of chilling and as the Ice Cube obviously dilutes into the bourbon it's going to take on a whole other property right so give that a sip you can sit in there if you want to zoom in on that you can see that said well that's a good rock so that that's a good tumbler that's a good single Rock right very smooth what kind of bourbon is that by the way oh this is probably one of the best Bourbons with top bourbon it's Johnny drinks bourbon it's the blend four-year aged four-year aged finished up in Cabernet Zinfandel and Grenache wine barrels 60 40 10. Link in the bio if you want a bottle good stuff okay so we now have we have the neat version right we've got our neat version we have one with a splash of water and a small cube we have our rocks glass okay our tumbler here with our big rocks another way that's water yeah we're gonna get rid of that you dump it right here okay another way we're gonna crush up some ice now crushing up this ice is going to change the taste the texture and the Ultimate Experience of how you sip your bourbon all right so now we've got some crushed ice look at that okay and check that out well crushed ice you got your bourbon [Music] looks like a bourbon slushie look at that okay now take a sip of that very similar okay it's similar but your texture is different because you have crushed thighs okay some people like to put that some people like to put this in their mouth with the ice cubes and let it subtly just melt inside their mouth again it's a texture it's a preference thing one of the other last ways of topping off any of these not so much having it neat and certainly not maybe with one small cube but either in a tumbler in a rocks with a sphere like that or a crushed ice is using a little Citrus okay orange lemon in this case so we're gonna do a little of this okay let's see what do you think of that [Music] changes the experience of it okay so we're running a whole gamut here one of the other things as you kind of go through the spirits of whiskeys and bourbons and how you know you like and you prefer them is the very first experience with it if you like it one of these ways great enjoy it all the time that way one thing I will share with you about sifting out of this kind of a Glencairn glass and why it's important because all the Aromas come up to the top of the glass some people like to throw it in their mouth and let it sit under their tongue that's one way one of the other ways is you take it and you put it on your lip just on your top lip okay and all you're doing there is now you smell it and you can really taste differently than if you put in your mouth because it's on your lip and then you take another sit and let that sit on your tongue neat is not for everybody but in in again my preference is I'd rather have it neat around one of these rocks classes what about you which way do you like the best I would say on the rocks on one Rock right on one Spear and so there you have it what's the right way to drink bourbon that's the one you enjoy the most oh that wouldn't even script that that's right there is no wrong way the right way is your way so pick one run through the gamut of tasting and have some fun with it bring some friends over bring some friends over open up a bottle of Johnny drinks bourbon once you open the bourbon share it with your friends this top should come off and she used the bottle and then you kind of get another one because that's how you should share bourbon experience of a good whiskey enjoy guys cheers

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Length: 7min 44sec (464 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 01 2021