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Such a fun idea for a video and so well executed as always. Surprised you picked the Amarone cask, only because I love that one to and I did not think it got much attention. Oooh, the Craig 13 is also a fav. Wow, This video hits. Thanks for all your thoughts here, I think I'll need to re watch when I have a little more time, I admit, I skipped around a bit ;) Thanks again!

Where I work JW Red is top shelf. You need to get into Black Velvet, Clan MacGregor, or Paddy's.

can you do a review on glencallum whisky

I would like to know your opinion on Canadian whisky. what is available to you and what us Canucks keep for ourselves!

Its hard to find( there are a couple) a bourbon that isn't aggressive and loud

Great video Phil and thanks to your followers for the brilliant questions

9:18 Everyone should visit the Cotswolds distillery. The thing about their tour that makes it special is they sit you down at the end in their nice lounge and you get to try _everything_ they make. All of their whiskeys are on the counter, all of their gins, as well as some of their limited releases that they're working on at the moment.

Lphroaig 10 35€ i can live just with this one: I tried Bourbon and American single malt but i don't like it, i quite sure is for the heavy impact of virgin oak barrel . outside Scotland i will go to Japanese (the real one , not the sourced from other countries) is leaning more to the scotch style that i like.

Is there any great New Zealand whisky to recommend and online websites to buy from?

Thanks!

Dalwhinnie 15yo is narsty, sorry Phil!

Well said answer to the question about scotch versus bourbon. Great video, Phil!

Great video ! Love the Clay distillery to from the Netherlands :)

Another interesting video, I really enjoyed the Q&A approach. I learn a lot from your videos and reviews, thank you. As a Canadian, I am partial to rye and bourbon, though there are several scotches that I enjoy (Arran 10 and Quarter Cask are 2 favourites along with the Classic Laddie and Aberlour 12) - I have found that I'm not a huge fan of peaty scotch, but, like wine, it's the variety. that makes it so good. If you have the opportunity to visit Canada, I'm sure there are loads of distilleries to sample that are unlikely to make it to your neck of the woods. Okanagan Spirits in BC has a range of single malt whiskies with some great varieties - tequila casks, rum casks, pinot noir, etc. Bourbon style as well. Thanks again! Slainte.

Great video. Thanks 😊

You need to try more Bourbon Phil! 😝👊🥃🥃🥃

12:00 if you're ever interested in trying more Dutch whiskies, I would highly recommend the Millstone Peated PX! Its a very tasty whisky for its price, pretty spirit-driven (I've had their Newmake and you could really trace that back in the whisky). Its one of the most tobacco-y and spice-y whiskies I've ever had. Also great transparency with vintage dates, natural color and non-chill filtered!

Hi When you said you’d go blended whisky if prices rise. Are we talking about blends of single malt or blends of mixed grain. I’ve tried a few single malt blends and some are fantastic. Prices are great also.

Loved this one, mate!

Lagavulin as a beginner I fell in love with

Loved this speed round Q&A! Great stuff Phil. #discocow

All hail Tamdhu sherry-goodness, although their prices are creeping up. Agree on 18yo's too I feel they've now become an rare treat instead of a considered purchase.

The best styled whisky content out there.

I think bourbon is a lot more experimental now compared to Scotch by quite a bit. And I think I can say that because I do live in the US so it's much easier to know about it here. But I think just Mashbill alone makes Bourbon more experimental. Because as long as it's atleast 51% corn and aged in new white oak(plus some other requirements) it's considered bourbon and it allows for distilleries to experiment with other grains to add to the Mashbill. Ive seen, Rye, Wheat, Honey Wheat, Malted Barley, Barley, Chocolate Malted Barley, just to name a few. And adding in those different grains at varying percentages can drastically change the flavor profile of the Bourbon. Plus the big thing now with Bourbons is cask finishing which you see just as much if not more variety in. I've had Bourbons finished in Curacao Barrels, Honey Barrels, Maple Syrup Barrels, Barrels that previously held peated scotch, Tequila Barrels, the list goes on. Then on top of that you get Single Barrel offerings too which even though it is the same liquid made the same way depending on where the cask was in the warehouse, what the weather was that year, if barrels are rotated, etc you can have 2 barrels that taste different. It's why collecting Single Barrels here is so popular because you can get something slightly different even if it's the same Distillery and Bottle you've bought before. Or their stuff like Four Roses where they have 10 Different recipes and you can get a single Barrel expression for each of them. This also isn't mentioning blends which are also super common in America. To have like Bouryes or even have Bourbons blended with Single Malts or American Malts etc.. Or just really good Bourbon blends like stuff from Barrell Bourbon Company or limited releases like Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch which can blend Bourbon from 12 years old to 25 years old. So tbh I'd actually say it's the other way around from your Statement I think Scotch is more narrow of a scope comparatively to bourbon 🤓 of course pricing and availability is vastly better here in the US for it, and generally Bourbon is cheaper here which is why it's vastly more popular here. I love both Bourbon and Scotch but I will say on my top 25 best Whiskeys I've ever had I do have more bourbons on it than Scotch and my favorite Whiskey I've ever had was a Bourbon 🤓

Love Oban 14.

Bourbon is pretty hard to beat under a certain price. But it's very one dimensional and scotch is more varied and complex on the high end.

I was ruined early. A Laphroaig Cask Strength from Cadenhead's was my 1st plunge into peated single malts many years ago, (it was love at first taste!). After that the regular 10 OB was always just too weak.

None of my top 5 whiskies are bourbons..

I love the Port Charlotte 10, but did anybody else get a bottle that had an ill-fitting cork? Mine wasn't snug at all, and the bottle oxidized super fast. I suspected that the short bottle neck also contributed to the cork not fitting right.

Lagavulin is my favourite scotch - nothing comes close to single malt scotch - just bought a case of Offerman 11 yo 4th edition - rum casking - and I just bought a Lagavulin 16 tonight - $200.00 Canadian with taxes and worth every penny! It surpasses Bourbon X 30!!! Love a good high ABV 100% or 95/5 spicy Rye but 98% of the time it's delicious single malt scotch!! Cheers!!

Bourbon is a one trick pony. I just don’t like it enough to have the patience to disprove that to myself.

The only one on the list i disagree with is Dalwhinnie 15 just a very underwhelming whisky just bad specs...Springbank alternative I would go Clynelish 14 and Craigallechie...

I guess it is all perspective. I find more diversity in the four types of Irish than I do in Scotch but more flavor in high proof bourbons. I love them all.

Hey Phil I got a question/ request please! Either a video of your favorite/ best whiskeys on the rocks or I’ll take a comment lol also could a peated/ Islay whiskey be good with ice?

Great video Phil! I agree with you about scotch having the greatest diversity….second greatest has got to be Mezcal! Great stuff.

While the flavor spectrum of Scotch is larger than something like bourbon, I find there really are only a few different segmentations of scotch. You've got the peated stuff, the sherried stuff, the sherried and peated stuff, coastal whiskies, and then the bourbon aged stuff. You also have different wine cask maturations as well, but those are typically kind of oddball whiskies that are very hit or miss. I find that in each category there are usually only a few brands that stand out as really high quality products, while the rest suffer from Diageo syndrome, aka super young, 80 proof whiskies packed full of artificial coloring. I think what could be a very large variety of quality scotch suffers as a result due to the sheer number of mass market, lowest common denominator scotches that are out there. The fact that 92 proof is considered generous in the world of scotch is also disappointing, especially when just about every bourbon or American Whiskey brand offers a cask strength option. That combined with the fact that bourbon doesn't need to age as long and must follow very strict guidelines means there are many more full flavored, unadulterated, and full bodied bourbons on the shelf than there are scotches, and yes, you can still get a fairly wide spectrum of flavors within the category. You don't have to finish it in a used wine barrel just to get some flavor out of it. And don't get me wrong, I love scotch. I just think in a lot of cases, scotch can be weak tea when compared to bourbon or rye.

American single malt like Stranahans or High West

Great video Phil! My favourite Arran would be the Quarter Cask at the moment. Cask strength and around $100. I haven't replaced my bottle of PC10 as the price has increased so much since I bought my last one. Price increases are pushing me to explore whiskies from other countries more, as well as rum as a malternative. Cheers!

Why is Scotch better than bourbon? It just is. Convo over and out.

For the most part, I have to agree except for William Larue Weller. It's really that good!

As a lifelong scotch enthusiast I really reeaaaallly don't want to say this... but I do very much enjoy bourbon, rye and other American Whiskey every bit as much as scotch. There's just something very appealing to aging whiskey in a barn with no ocean to offer temp control in the heartland of America. You get highs and lows that surprise you, wood notes that cool stability just never pulls out. It's far easier to mess up and I think that's part of why it is so impressive. Nobody is going to lose their minds over a 12 year scotch even if it's perfectly competent... but a 12 year bourbon... that might be amazing or garbage depending on the skills and luck of the people running the operation.

Well this ia the video that's making me unsubscribe. And I'll be telling everyone I know to do likewise. This farce of a channel is beyond utter shite, and hopefully god willing you stop putting useless information soon. Plenty of actually good channels out there- too bad Phil never seemed to learn anything from them.

What’s up with springbank? New here!

McCallan is massively overpriced, no doubt, you guys are spot on. Good job

You avoided my first question :P but great video Phil 😊

Why apples are better than hamsters! FFS, they are two different things, unsub this stupid shit.

I love bourbon. There´s not a big variety of flavor profiles, but that´s not what I look for in bourbon. I just want that solid classic bourbon flavor I can always go back to. I love Scotch for the adventure, but bourbon is like home to me.

Finished Rye Whiskeys is the best category. Hands down. If you disagree you have the right to be wrong.

- Replace Macallan with literally any other whisky. They're elitist wankers who don't deserve any support from our wallets - Sherry bomb - any S.F.T.C Edradour! - Fav Arran is the Machrie Moor Fingal's Cut Quarter Cask and the original Bothy/Quarter Cask, otherwise the Drumadoon Point, but it's way too expensive - Smoky/Sherry, I'd get smoky forever and ever. sherry gets too boring after a while - Sub 100$ single malt - Port Charlotte 10 for me, but the Glencadam 10 is a fantastic shout as well - Non-peated recommendations would be the Arran Bothy, Glencadam 10 again, GlenAllachie 10CS, Deanston 12, Tobermory 12 - Springbank substitute? Any Ardnamurchan or Benromach CS, or subverting expectations with a Clynelish 14 - One region forever - I agree with you 100%

I really love your videos & respect your knowledge. I came from almost ten years of exclusively drinking bourbon & sort of felt I’d be betraying it by going into other categories.Totally different mindset now as I’m buying Irish, Scotch, ASM’s, international whiskies, tequila, rum, white wines, & yes bourbon. With all my experience in the American spirit I’d encourage you to keep branching out into bourbon like you did with the Michter’s. There are strict regulations as you said but still a bunch of diversity in flavors. Texas for example can’t typically age longer than four years because of the climate & tends to have a certain funk people pick up. Indiana bourbon has a certain minerality from the water source that sets it apart. Plenty more example of the subtle & not so subtle differences among the same category.