Applauding the fact that he seemed way more enamoured with the final result than the sweet liquor from ther mouth of the bottle. 'tis our Clive to a t. :)
Back when I was at university as a larval computer science geek, the lab had a network of Unix workstations all named after single malts. (The admins apparently had to go and do extensive research at the local pubs.) The one called laphroaig was always very popular for use, because you could be sure that nobody had logged into it remotely to run jobs and use up your CPU... because nobody could spell it.
They're not actually instructions - I think it lets you register for a lifetime lease on a square foot of land! Got my brother-in-law a bottle at Christmas and he was very happy with that freebie :)
Yeah, that was as retepetsir pointed out Not instructions but land-ownership evidence... Which does have some whiskey perks. Oh, well. Those who do not read instructions usually punish themselves automatically like this.
I wish my brother had a RUclips channel so that I could take the piss out of him like this. I'd actually like to taste the spirit that came out of this, as I've never been a fan of Laphroaig, but it looks like this process takes all the shite bits out.
Water distillers differ from the "other kind" in two main ways, the first being that the element runs at twice the power, so if your distillate is coming out warm then the alcohol will be evaporating - I'm sure you know of many a way to turn down the heat, one of those triac things you've got lying around will probably do the trick. I have a Chinese boiling ring/stirrer where they just used a diode to half-wave rectify our 240v for the 120v heating element! (in any case the results are much better with a cooler distillation and a variable control is the best). Note that you then need to power the fan with a second kettle flex 'cos you don't want that slowing down too. The other difference is that some of them have a "chlorine valve" to let out the chlorine in the water - or possibly Laphroaig in your case. If your model is afflicted the valve (just a hole!) can be found in the output pipe just before where the cooling fins start. It's only three screws to get there (remove the sealing ring first), just block the hole, maybe lead free solder would do the trick - be careful when you put it back together, the inner plastic piece is shaped to fit the slope of the piping so has to go back in just the right way. Good luck!
Actually the fan won't run on half wave, probably just burn out. I've done what you suggest before and also posted that as a comment. Also used a TL494 / KA7500 power supply controller to implement PWM and used a NTC thermistor embedded in the top for feedback so it could heat up quickly then run as an Ethanol still until it got hot enough to start distilling any water and stop. It blew up later due to accidentally shorting part of it to earth. And the hole in the pipe you mentioned, I had forgotten about that. I bunged mine up with RTV Silicon, but I had wondered why it was there.
@@cameraguy4767 Possibly, I just bought an £18 voltage controller box from EBay with a neat little built-in voltmeter to tell me what it's doing. I've not looked inside to see what it's got in there, it's basically a dimmer but It's Chinese and probably will kill me so I'm not going to scare myself silly by taking the lid off! (though I did make sure that it was properly earthed).
@@stevelloyd5785 I wasn't even sure if the diode trick was "legal" anyway, even for my boiling plate. I should really have just stuck to listing what possibly needed to be done rather than suggesting ways to do it - a little knowledge is a dangerous thing!
@@patrickglaser1560 24v was for fermenting the wash rather than doing the distilling, and I believe that I did mention running the fan from a second mains lead.
I never drank a single sip of alcohol in my 20 years of life. But still when the guy describes the flavour and texture of the drink, i can feel it in my mouth.
I still wonder why Laphroaig Select is sometimes more expensive than standard Laphroaig 10 at Total Wine. But then Scotch prices seem all kinds of screwy since I moved out to the desert.
It's a perfect analogy of being siblings . You start together and then life and mythology separate you . Really nice to see the coming together of the pureist and the smokey experimentalist .together you are the perfect symbol of Scotland. It's not easy being brothers as time goes buy. Very Hart warming.
"It was like the entire Amazon Rain forest had basically exploded in whisky factory, it was very smokey." "Let me taste this. Ew. Super strong. It's got all the flavors still there. Oh, that is bitey bitey bitey that is super oily and smokey, that is... one of the... It's quite nice."
Christ Clive with the banter and Laphroaig you aren't half making me homesick. Born and raised in Greenock. Left when I was 15. Haven't been back in 30 years.
I suspect the residue was the oils that came out of the maturing casks when it was matured after distillation. Makes sense that the smoke made it over with the distillation, as that would go into the whisky from the malt, so must've gone over when it was distilled in the first place. Very cool, even if it was painful to see that bottle emptied into the distiller!
My Costco carries Lagavulin 16 for $55, I find it to be a bit higher value, though that didn't stop me buying the Laphroaig 10 when they had it in stock
@@wingracer1614 I may have to try some. My favourite so far has been a 10-year Aberlour. But I haven’t had a Laphroaig before. (I drink so infrequently that I keep getting new 8, 10, 12 year old bottles for Christmas while the prior one is still over half full, so I haven’t had to actually make any purchases for an exceedingly long time. Especially because someone in the family takes old casks off of distilleries’ hands and spends weeks draining out the dregs, so I also receive small bottles or flasks of those, as well as ones in the proper packaging.)
Oy! I literally cried (with tears) when I saw you pour the entire bottle of Laphroaig into the distiller! I am still crying, I think. At least on the inside. My heart is bleeding. I am not a big alcohol consumer at all. Especially the hard stuff. But Laphroaig is something that I always try to have on hand. It is THE very best alcoholic beverage I have ever tried. Expensive, too, but SO worth every penny.
Thank you the day ended a little better than it started the court didn't give my STBX what she was wanting this time. Now I have to wait to see how bad I will get hurt in the divorce trial next month. Hope you are all doing well. And like I said before thank you so much for the up lifting video I really needed something to smile about today and that really helped.
Don't know about in Scotland but here in North America wood is hard to come by, and is expensive. I could see someone turning to making barrels out of old railroad ties to age their whisky in.
i love the way at 1.18 clive combines the words ubiquitous and obligatory to end up with 'obliquitous'. Obliquitous (noun): Definition: The state of being necessary and everywhere at the same time. Example: "In the world of technology, the presence of smartphones has become obliquitous, as they are deemed essential and seemingly omnipresent in our daily lives."
YES ! Another instalment of the distillery experiments! I love this, it has opened my eyes to a whole new world of alcohol 🥴! Thank you for another episode 🙏
My favorite tipple. Its not everyone's choice with the smoky-peaty flavor. Some of the aged bottles are a little sweeter and smoother but still like liking an ashtray. Cant wait to see what Ralph has to say.
Kind is a scotch newbie here. How does it compare to something like a Lagavulin? I liked the 8yo bottle I got once and was looking for something similar.
@@madladlabs Smokier - it's like standing in the middle of a peat fire. Quite a strong medicinal character from the TCP as well which can be off-putting for some. Advice though - get the 10 instead of the select it's a better experience (in my opinion)
@@madladlabs It's quite a medicinal taste, strong smoke and peat. A lot of people don't like it so much if they are used to Highland whisky, but it's well worth a try.
@@madladlabs For me, it's better than even Lagavulin 16. A bit less sweet, less of the dark fruit character but a more nutty middle that is just divine. Like honey roasted and smoked cashews. Laphroaig 10 is still my favorite despite continued efforts to find better. If you liked Lag 8, you may very well love Laphroaig 10
@mad Lad Labs If you can afford it and wish to try it, do so you will not find a better whisky in it's class, it was my favourite but nowadays I drink Penderyn instead
Islay Whisky tends to have an oily texture on the tongue. Learned more about whisky and its history in Edinburgh on holiday and thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience. I like a nice smooth Lowlands whisky.
I left a bottle of 18y Chivas Regal at my sister's house. Her boyfriend really enjoyed it, and felt bad about drinking it all, so he bought a different scotch to replace it with. The replacement left an aftertaste reminiscent of having licked an ashtray.
For science. Okay then, as the Bad-Idea Fairy has been appeased, now on it's a crime. Sidenote: Is "Bad-Idea Fairy" universal across English speakers and what are other equivalents?
My dad was a Laphoiag man, It's probably a good thing there's a lot of feisty sea in between the Isle of Man and the rest of the Whiskey appreciating world. I'm sure Big Clive will be fine.
You're ready to go to the next level, Clive, build a complete fractionating tower. Electric sleeve heater with control via the HOPI, you know the score. Love the channel BTW, I've always felt the Apocalypse would have soft Scottish narration.
Interresting effets of soft redistillation on peat itself. Just go nuts with this series, we all (especially us spirit tasters, but shhhh) will be greatly rewarded in the end ^^
“Not my style of whisky”, it is mine! It was funny seeing your unfamiliarity with such packaging. I very very rarely drink or buy whisky, but when I do, it’s that kind of thing. I don’t think I’ve ever had one without a cork in, come to think of it. The “instructions” you tossed were probably just boasting about their heritage and location and other products, haha. I suspect the oils came from the wood casks, which are smoked. Lots of wood has oils in, which would undoubtedly dissolve into the alcohol as it sits around.
I've had that Stuff... I eventually got the taste for it about Half way through the Bottle... When I first opened it, It smelled like it had been aged inside a hollowed out railway sleeper... The smell was just like Creosote. I Like the Smell of Creosote and it was Expensive so I'm finishing it.
When you tasted the sludge that was the look I had when someone gave me a can of Milwaukees best, not sure about now, but at the time it was considered Bum beer, totally bottom shelf CHEAP AF beer🤢
Somewhere on a little island at the southernmost tip of the Inner Hebrides: "Ach, ah fill a greet distorbance en the Foorse. Some dough-heid adoolterating me finest". Best thumbnail yet though.
It is very scientific to break things down to smaller components to see what they are made of. It sounds like you have found significant differences between posh and crappy whisky.
My wife loves that island Lap-Frog paint stripper. God knows why. it tastes of salt peat and death, funeral pyres w/o enough wood but with the essence of a fish that washed up on the rocks quite some time ago. Make mine a Highland, even a nice blend will do.
The smoke flavour is in the whisky before distillation -- it's from the use of a peat fire to dry the malt -- so it's not a surprise it survives a second distillation too.
I'm rather enjoying this weirdness of alcohol experimentation. I'm sure Ralfy can't wait for this whole thing to be over with. I enjoy seeing your experimentation and Ralfy's reaction. Cheers.
My favorite spirit in the world. If I have a least favorite however, it is the select. Your experiment is proof that Laphroaig doesn’t add flavor but distills it into their whisky.
The 2nd distilling process removes all the crud that is added after the first process, caramel and old oak oils, peat residue etc. The stuff of serious hangovers.
Oooooo!! Your a brave man Clive, doing that to Laughing frog whisky! Death threats will follow, sacrilege, sacrilege, sacrilege, just wrong!!! (Although, I would love to taste the clear stuff) Must see what Ralfy says. 👍 😎
I so enjoy these experiments you come up with. But I must admit my favourite chill out vids that you make are the 1hr + of watching you create your lighting masterpieces 😋 while talking about a range of topics. Keep thinking outside that round box, Jo Olo
Started watching this at 14:25, when 30 seconds in, I got a visitor. I paused the video and left Clive about to pop the seal of the posh scotch he was about to distil... my visitor stayed a lot longer than I expected, and finally at 18:54, I was able to continue watching. You are selling the whiskey better than Ralfy does lol
You will obtain a better distillation of the Ethanol if you change the Water distiller with a 74f thermo switch. I did that with a coffee maker and it works a treat. Boiling point of ethanol is like 73f and the water distiller is running at like 212f.
The fact that you enjoy the taste of Laphroaig while apparently not very familiar with it (many people don't like it or consider it as an acquired taste) quite offsets the blasphemy of mangling such a nice whisky.
I worked at a distillery for a short while, the whisky would, some times, come out of the casks at 125 proof, they had to add water to bring it down to brands regular 90 proof . Though it was possible for customers to walk up to the door of the distillery and buy an entire cask with out it being tampered with .
The reason it "makes the place smell nice" I think is the distiller runs too hot and the coil on top can't cool it enough, so you get a lot of whiskey vapor in the house. Try running the power through a diode to slow It down, you can bypass it with a switch for initial heating. That way you should keep more good stuff. Just don't worry about the power factor. Also see other comment from Phil Ogden about the little hole in the condenser pipe.
I’m with you on corks for whisky bottles. They don’t seal as well as wine corks, and they are a proper nuisance to fiddle with. There’s a reason that the screw top replaced corks.
what you have is the best flavoring for desserts,you can also use it for bbq sauce,it breaks my heart to see such an amazing whisky destroyed but it is really interesting,the flavor is strong so it doesn't taste like nothing when you have a cigar with it
You should do a Pastis. I know you did Yeager Meister a while back, but something like Ricard or 51 would be interesting. It doesn't take much water in Pastis for the louche to appear. Distillation would be interesting. And to think I have been mispronouncing Laphroaig all of these years.
Pro tip if you do a twirl you can make a vortex a little Whirlpool that makes the spirits pour out faster because it doesn't have to stop for the air bubbles plus it looks cool👌 if you do another liquor video I'd recommend it
I heard from Ralfy you're planning on putting a few fairy drinks through it like Malibu & Baileys. If so, I can't wait. I love seeing the products, it's not always intuitive. Also, love the beard. Red, white, black and perfectly trimmed. It's like having your own personal flag, on your face. I'm jealous.
I bought my brother a bottle of 15 year old Laphroaig maybe 15 or more years ago for £30 from Tesco, absolutely gorgeous stuff. I see Whisky exchange has what I believe is the same one up at £325 now.
Clive: "Posh whiskey"
Ralfy "Entry level whiskey I usually wouldn't review"
Love it
:D Clive: "Distilling." Ralfy: "Rectifying"
Two peas in a pod :-D
It's true though, at the point you would get into single malt reviews, you have already tasted Laphroaig yourself.
I wouldn't even mix that one with coke. I do love the 10 yr old though
This comment made me chuckle from a Malt Mates perspective
"my distiller might be leaking" suuuuuuure, you definitely didn't have a drink of the fancy whiskey
Interesting how the volume of the previous distillations didn't seem similarly compromised ;)
Those machines don't cool the distillate sufficently, so you do get a bit of "angel's share".
I imagine Ralfy shuddered when he heard Clive pronounce Islay...
Funniest one yet. Loved the face after tasting the residue.
I'm over here making sympathy faces as I imagine tasting it. :D
should have been the thumbnail
His hat dropped with his expression, hehehe
Yeah... About that 🤣🤣🤣
Don't get too deep in that, Clive... 😜
@@thepetrarcticwar2778 The hat drop was the best part! Oh, poor Clive.
"I don't know what this is but I'm gonna taste some"...perfect headstone quote!
Muhahahaaaaa!! LMAO! ;-)
Clive sniffs bottle and utters "Oh, that's quite nice" LoL
Then pours it into a bucket.
Was it a subtle one, Clive?
Applauding the fact that he seemed way more enamoured with the final result than the sweet liquor from ther mouth of the bottle.
'tis our Clive to a t. :)
Back when I was at university as a larval computer science geek, the lab had a network of Unix workstations all named after single malts. (The admins apparently had to go and do extensive research at the local pubs.) The one called laphroaig was always very popular for use, because you could be sure that nobody had logged into it remotely to run jobs and use up your CPU... because nobody could spell it.
Yeah, as a former geek, I knew where this story was going 😂
It just makes it more convenient for big brains like us!
One of the few RUclipsrs you feel like you could hang out with, and genuinely enjoy the company.
Great series. Very interesting results on these.
Right? This is only my 2nd video from Clive, and I'm loving this series. Such a charming, downhome chap, so laid back.
Agreed
The most expressive video from the distillation series. Enjoyed every single bit of it.
With 750 K subscribers you could probably say it’s paid for itself
bitey bitey bitey!
"bitey,bitey, bitey"! That left me giggling for ages. Thanks Clive, you Big Weird Techy Scot.
WOW! OMG! Can't resist the BigClive soy face thumbnails!
You should try them. They're great.
I plan to collect the set.
I made a comment on a Tim Hunkin video, a couple of days ago, after seeing Clive commenting. That it only needed Max to join to complete the circle!
@@BigClive we will never get sick of them .. somehow they lure us in like moth to the flame
@@BigClive I should! My output feels rather po-faced in comparison, maybe another beer tasting video is due...
Opens a bottle of whisky: "Instructions. Blah". What do they even say? How to best fall in a ditch?
😂😁😃😅😄😃😂😁😅😄😃😂
They're not actually instructions - I think it lets you register for a lifetime lease on a square foot of land! Got my brother-in-law a bottle at Christmas and he was very happy with that freebie :)
"Have a wee dram. Then another."
Yeah, that was as
retepetsir pointed out Not instructions but land-ownership evidence... Which does have some whiskey perks. Oh, well. Those who do not read instructions usually punish themselves automatically like this.
Lol
I wish my brother had a RUclips channel so that I could take the piss out of him like this.
I'd actually like to taste the spirit that came out of this, as I've never been a fan of Laphroaig, but it looks like this process takes all the shite bits out.
Water distillers differ from the "other kind" in two main ways, the first being that the element runs at twice the power, so if your distillate is coming out warm then the alcohol will be evaporating - I'm sure you know of many a way to turn down the heat, one of those triac things you've got lying around will probably do the trick. I have a Chinese boiling ring/stirrer where they just used a diode to half-wave rectify our 240v for the 120v heating element! (in any case the results are much better with a cooler distillation and a variable control is the best). Note that you then need to power the fan with a second kettle flex 'cos you don't want that slowing down too. The other difference is that some of them have a "chlorine valve" to let out the chlorine in the water - or possibly Laphroaig in your case. If your model is afflicted the valve (just a hole!) can be found in the output pipe just before where the cooling fins start. It's only three screws to get there (remove the sealing ring first), just block the hole, maybe lead free solder would do the trick - be careful when you put it back together, the inner plastic piece is shaped to fit the slope of the piping so has to go back in just the right way.
Good luck!
Actually the fan won't run on half wave, probably just burn out. I've done what you suggest before and also posted that as a comment. Also used a TL494 / KA7500 power supply controller to implement PWM and used a NTC thermistor embedded in the top for feedback so it could heat up quickly then run as an Ethanol still until it got hot enough to start distilling any water and stop. It blew up later due to accidentally shorting part of it to earth. And the hole in the pipe you mentioned, I had forgotten about that. I bunged mine up with RTV Silicon, but I had wondered why it was there.
I think you mean variac, not triac.
@@cameraguy4767 Possibly, I just bought an £18 voltage controller box from EBay with a neat little built-in voltmeter to tell me what it's doing. I've not looked inside to see what it's got in there, it's basically a dimmer but It's Chinese and probably will kill me so I'm not going to scare myself silly by taking the lid off! (though I did make sure that it was properly earthed).
@@stevelloyd5785 I wasn't even sure if the diode trick was "legal" anyway, even for my boiling plate. I should really have just stuck to listing what possibly needed to be done rather than suggesting ways to do it - a little knowledge is a dangerous thing!
@@patrickglaser1560 24v was for fermenting the wash rather than doing the distilling, and I believe that I did mention running the fan from a second mains lead.
I never drank a single sip of alcohol in my 20 years of life. But still when the guy describes the flavour and texture of the drink, i can feel it in my mouth.
Laphroaig is my favorite bottle of smoke and peat. Awesome stuff.
Not going to lie my hear skipped a beat! Until I seen it was the "Select." No need to worry that's not all that special :D
I still wonder why Laphroaig Select is sometimes more expensive than standard Laphroaig 10 at Total Wine. But then Scotch prices seem all kinds of screwy since I moved out to the desert.
As a whiskey nerd I am loving these experiments. It’s answering questions I’ve always wanted to know the answered to!
It's a perfect analogy of being siblings . You start together and then life and mythology separate you . Really nice to see the coming together of the pureist and the smokey experimentalist .together you are the perfect symbol of Scotland. It's not easy being brothers as time goes buy. Very Hart warming.
"It was like the entire Amazon Rain forest had basically exploded in whisky factory, it was very smokey."
"Let me taste this. Ew. Super strong. It's got all the flavors still there. Oh, that is bitey bitey bitey that is super oily and smokey, that is... one of the... It's quite nice."
“Bitey bitey bitey” is my new favorite phrase… 🤣🤣🤣
@@shubinternet That's how I describe my kitten. He's cute, but full of sharp pointy bits.
@@shubinternet Especially as /ˈbäi̯tʰi ˈbäi̯tʰi ˈbäi̯tʰi/!
Have you done Buckfast yet? It’d be interesting to see what comes out of a fine bottle of tramp wine.
Or try America's best, Colt 45 .
I wouldn't bother. It can't be improved upon. It's the pinnacle tipple.
@@karm42yn Oh, but it can - he carbonated it.
I mean.... this is a hard-earned upvote. On the one hand, I'd never see this anywhere else. On the other HOW DARE YOU.
We're POSH now, boys! Liquor so fancy it comes with instructions
It says: Danger. Don't try to air destill this whisky.
Acksherly it's an advertising leaflet offering the purchaser of a bottle of The Frog the lease on a square foot of Islay as a "Friend of Laphraoig".
I owe this guy alot. His video on the UVC sterilization lamp really helped me out.
That must be strong stuff, Clive barely tasted it and his ability to speak properly nearly disappeared.
if you've never had it, but like your scotch smokey, try the LIGHTEST one you can find... A cigar beforehand may help. But probably not.
Tricolour beard is simply fabulous today. Love these videos.
It really do be looking kinda 🥵 tho
Noooooo! I don't know if I can make it through this tragedy...
Christ Clive with the banter and Laphroaig you aren't half making me homesick. Born and raised in Greenock. Left when I was 15. Haven't been back in 30 years.
It's OK. You're not missing much.
Oh my god, this was absolutely brilliant comedic content, PLEASE do more!!
I suspect the residue was the oils that came out of the maturing casks when it was matured after distillation. Makes sense that the smoke made it over with the distillation, as that would go into the whisky from the malt, so must've gone over when it was distilled in the first place.
Very cool, even if it was painful to see that bottle emptied into the distiller!
I love how your bro is a legit connoisseur, and you just drink any old swill.
BigClive you are so wholesome and joyful, I appreciate your redistilling series :)
Oh, I love Laphroaig, the "regular" 10 year old single malt is a great value.
I keep trying to find better. Have spent three times the price trying to find better. Laphroaig 10 still beats them all for me.
My Costco carries Lagavulin 16 for $55, I find it to be a bit higher value, though that didn't stop me buying the Laphroaig 10 when they had it in stock
Great mixed into homemade icecream
@@wingracer1614 I may have to try some. My favourite so far has been a 10-year Aberlour. But I haven’t had a Laphroaig before.
(I drink so infrequently that I keep getting new 8, 10, 12 year old bottles for Christmas while the prior one is still over half full, so I haven’t had to actually make any purchases for an exceedingly long time. Especially because someone in the family takes old casks off of distilleries’ hands and spends weeks draining out the dregs, so I also receive small bottles or flasks of those, as well as ones in the proper packaging.)
Someone ruined it for me when they announced "YUK, It tastes like TCP"
Oy! I literally cried (with tears) when I saw you pour the entire bottle of Laphroaig into the distiller! I am still crying, I think. At least on the inside. My heart is bleeding. I am not a big alcohol consumer at all. Especially the hard stuff. But Laphroaig is something that I always try to have on hand. It is THE very best alcoholic beverage I have ever tried. Expensive, too, but SO worth every penny.
Dear God Clive, you've lost your mind distilling such nice whisky...
Good afternoon from the state of Washington. OMG You are so funny thank you for the pick up of my day. It has not been a good day so far.
Thank you the day ended a little better than it started the court didn't give my STBX what she was wanting this time. Now I have to wait to see how bad I will get hurt in the divorce trial next month.
Hope you are all doing well. And like I said before thank you so much for the up lifting video I really needed something to smile about today and that really helped.
"Obliquitous" - How Clive behaves after drinking it
“Eeewwww…..bitter……almost like cigarette smoke” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Don't know about in Scotland but here in North America wood is hard to come by, and is expensive. I could see someone turning to making barrels out of old railroad ties to age their whisky in.
I'll take it
That looked very tasty! Certainly tastier than the meths I watched you drink the other day.
What meths ?
i love the way at 1.18 clive combines the words ubiquitous and obligatory to end up with 'obliquitous'.
Obliquitous (noun):
Definition: The state of being necessary and everywhere at the same time.
Example: "In the world of technology, the presence of smartphones has become obliquitous, as they are deemed essential and seemingly omnipresent in our daily lives."
very funny, I want to see Ralfy's face now when tasting the reconstituted, left over whisky lol!
"Like the Amazon rainforest exploded in the distillery" is possibly the most accurate description of a Laphroaig I have heard to date.
It's not even a particularly expensive scotch but it still made me wince a little
YES ! Another instalment of the distillery experiments! I love this, it has opened my eyes to a whole new world of alcohol 🥴! Thank you for another episode 🙏
My favorite tipple. Its not everyone's choice with the smoky-peaty flavor. Some of the aged bottles are a little sweeter and smoother but still like liking an ashtray. Cant wait to see what Ralph has to say.
Kind is a scotch newbie here. How does it compare to something like a Lagavulin? I liked the 8yo bottle I got once and was looking for something similar.
@@madladlabs Smokier - it's like standing in the middle of a peat fire. Quite a strong medicinal character from the TCP as well which can be off-putting for some. Advice though - get the 10 instead of the select it's a better experience (in my opinion)
@@madladlabs It's quite a medicinal taste, strong smoke and peat. A lot of people don't like it so much if they are used to Highland whisky, but it's well worth a try.
@@madladlabs For me, it's better than even Lagavulin 16. A bit less sweet, less of the dark fruit character but a more nutty middle that is just divine. Like honey roasted and smoked cashews. Laphroaig 10 is still my favorite despite continued efforts to find better. If you liked Lag 8, you may very well love Laphroaig 10
@mad Lad Labs If you can afford it and wish to try it, do so you will not find a better whisky in it's class, it was my favourite but nowadays I drink Penderyn instead
Islay Whisky tends to have an oily texture on the tongue. Learned more about whisky and its history in Edinburgh on holiday and thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience. I like a nice smooth Lowlands whisky.
When you tasted the residue, your cap frowned. LOL.
I left a bottle of 18y Chivas Regal at my sister's house. Her boyfriend really enjoyed it, and felt bad about drinking it all, so he bought a different scotch to replace it with.
The replacement left an aftertaste reminiscent of having licked an ashtray.
Doing that to Laphroaig should be considered a crime against humanity
For science.
Okay then, as the Bad-Idea Fairy has been appeased, now on it's a crime.
Sidenote: Is "Bad-Idea Fairy" universal across English speakers and what are other equivalents?
It's ok, it's only Select. If this were Laphroaig 10 I'd be with you calling for a trial at the Hague.
My dad was a Laphoiag man, It's probably a good thing there's a lot of feisty sea in between the Isle of Man and the rest of the Whiskey appreciating world. I'm sure Big Clive will be fine.
It's a select it's ok
@@Javaritto QuarterCask would be even worse and calling for an intergalactic trial
The open mouth thumb shot is working, you're at the top of my feed!
You’ve had a bottle of that before filming this video didn’t you Clive 😆
You're ready to go to the next level, Clive, build a complete fractionating tower. Electric sleeve heater with control via the HOPI, you know the score.
Love the channel BTW, I've always felt the Apocalypse would have soft Scottish narration.
can't wait for the ralfy review!
It's now in the description.
Your thumbnail poses are the bloody best!
I always forget what Clives face looks like when it's in a thumbnail because I'm so used to his hands, voice, and workbench lol.
This is the kind of information that we can’t live without.
I was just about to call this brother torture but when he is in on the joke ... Give it all it can take!
Interresting effets of soft redistillation on peat itself. Just go nuts with this series, we all (especially us spirit tasters, but shhhh) will be greatly rewarded in the end ^^
“Not my style of whisky”, it is mine! It was funny seeing your unfamiliarity with such packaging. I very very rarely drink or buy whisky, but when I do, it’s that kind of thing. I don’t think I’ve ever had one without a cork in, come to think of it. The “instructions” you tossed were probably just boasting about their heritage and location and other products, haha.
I suspect the oils came from the wood casks, which are smoked. Lots of wood has oils in, which would undoubtedly dissolve into the alcohol as it sits around.
I've had that Stuff... I eventually got the taste for it about Half way through the Bottle...
When I first opened it, It smelled like it had been aged inside a hollowed out railway sleeper... The smell was just like Creosote.
I Like the Smell of Creosote and it was Expensive so I'm finishing it.
When you tasted the sludge that was the look I had when someone gave me a can of Milwaukees best, not sure about now, but at the time it was considered Bum beer, totally bottom shelf CHEAP AF beer🤢
Oh no... Indeed disgusting Milwaukees Beast, but what about Steel Reserve?
Somewhere on a little island at the southernmost tip of the Inner Hebrides:
"Ach, ah fill a greet distorbance en the Foorse. Some dough-heid adoolterating me finest".
Best thumbnail yet though.
It is very scientific to break things down to smaller components to see what they are made of. It sounds like you have found significant differences between posh and crappy whisky.
A complete lack of caramel for a start.
Since I love both Brothers and whisky this is better than Christmas was. :)
If Ralphy gave it you expressly for the purpose, I can (just about) forgive you this time Clive.
My wife loves that island Lap-Frog paint stripper. God knows why. it tastes of salt peat and death, funeral pyres w/o enough wood but with the essence of a fish that washed up on the rocks quite some time ago.
Make mine a Highland, even a nice blend will do.
"Clistal Creer" I've never heard that expression...Is it an Isle of Man thing?
Flied Lice
The smoke flavour is in the whisky before distillation -- it's from the use of a peat fire to dry the malt -- so it's not a surprise it survives a second distillation too.
Ach aye, I was hoping you wouldn't blaspheme single malt. One of the best beverages ever invented. Funny though.
'Oh, that's quite nice' - Clive is a master of understatement.
That is no way to pronounce Islay... it ends in a soft "a" not a hard "a"... as in "isle-ah".
I can only imagine Ralphy's disappointment.
Teach him to be called Ralphy
Was one of my favourites, if not THE favourite Single Malt in my heady days of drinking before visiting AA !!
I wish I could taste and smell through my screen
I'm rather enjoying this weirdness of alcohol experimentation. I'm sure Ralfy can't wait for this whole thing to be over with. I enjoy seeing your experimentation and Ralfy's reaction. Cheers.
One of the few whiskies I have never liked, tastes like soil.
Great! I like everyone who does not drink it. That leaves more for me! ;)
My favorite spirit in the world. If I have a least favorite however, it is the select. Your experiment is proof that Laphroaig doesn’t add flavor but distills it into their whisky.
That sigh was just right with the background noise, very nice👌 1:10
Nice work,Clive! Now time to see what Ralfy thinks!
The 2nd distilling process removes all the crud that is added after the first process, caramel and old oak oils, peat residue etc. The stuff of serious hangovers.
It also removes all the good stuff added to the whisky by the barrel aging process, meaning the resulting drink is 0 year old whisky.
Oooooo!! Your a brave man Clive, doing that to Laughing frog whisky! Death threats will follow, sacrilege, sacrilege, sacrilege, just wrong!!! (Although, I would love to taste the clear stuff) Must see what Ralfy says. 👍 😎
Oh, you've gone and done it now. My favorite whiskey... I may try this, lol. I have used it in a marinade and it worked well.
I so enjoy these experiments you come up with.
But I must admit my favourite chill out vids that you make are the 1hr + of watching you create your lighting masterpieces 😋 while talking about a range of topics.
Keep thinking outside that round box,
Jo Olo
That’s sacrilegious doing that to a bottle of a wonderful malt lmao, you sir are the mad scientist love it.
Started watching this at 14:25, when 30 seconds in, I got a visitor. I paused the video and left Clive about to pop the seal of the posh scotch he was about to distil... my visitor stayed a lot longer than I expected, and finally at 18:54, I was able to continue watching. You are selling the whiskey better than Ralfy does lol
You will obtain a better distillation of the Ethanol if you change the Water distiller with a 74f thermo switch. I did that with a coffee maker and it works a treat. Boiling point of ethanol is like 73f and the water distiller is running at like 212f.
Boiling point of ethanol is 78.37° CELCIUS
Laphroaig is a favourite of mine.
Reminds me of taking the scuttle to the shed and collecting coal for the fire back when I was little.
FINALLY!
Waiting all day long for something to happen.
Work is over, I have prepared dinner and now bligclive uploads. Lovely.
Love the crossovers! I actually started following Ralfy's channel first and then Big Clive and it blew my mind when I found out you were brothers.
The fact that you enjoy the taste of Laphroaig while apparently not very familiar with it (many people don't like it or consider it as an acquired taste) quite offsets the blasphemy of mangling such a nice whisky.
I worked at a distillery for a short while, the whisky would, some times, come out of the casks at 125 proof, they had to add water to bring it down to brands regular 90 proof .
Though it was possible for customers to walk up to the door of the distillery and buy an entire cask with out it being tampered with .
The reason it "makes the place smell nice" I think is the distiller runs too hot and the coil on top can't cool it enough, so you get a lot of whiskey vapor in the house. Try running the power through a diode to slow It down, you can bypass it with a switch for initial heating. That way you should keep more good stuff. Just don't worry about the power factor. Also see other comment from Phil Ogden about the little hole in the condenser pipe.
“There must be a leak in the distiller".
Sure Clive, I believe you :)
It's tiime for a wee drinky!!! Thx buddy for some distilled action
I’m with you on corks for whisky bottles. They don’t seal as well as wine corks, and they are a proper nuisance to fiddle with. There’s a reason that the screw top replaced corks.
The little URGH at 3.47 cracked me up for some reason haha
what you have is the best flavoring for desserts,you can also use it for bbq sauce,it breaks my heart to see such an amazing whisky destroyed but it is really interesting,the flavor is strong so it doesn't taste like nothing when you have a cigar with it
You should do a Pastis. I know you did Yeager Meister a while back, but something like Ricard or 51 would be interesting. It doesn't take much water in Pastis for the louche to appear. Distillation would be interesting.
And to think I have been mispronouncing Laphroaig all of these years.
Pro tip if you do a twirl you can make a vortex a little Whirlpool that makes the spirits pour out faster because it doesn't have to stop for the air bubbles plus it looks cool👌 if you do another liquor video I'd recommend it
I heard from Ralfy you're planning on putting a few fairy drinks through it like Malibu & Baileys.
If so, I can't wait. I love seeing the products, it's not always intuitive.
Also, love the beard. Red, white, black and perfectly trimmed.
It's like having your own personal flag, on your face. I'm jealous.
I bought my brother a bottle of 15 year old Laphroaig maybe 15 or more years ago for £30 from Tesco, absolutely gorgeous stuff. I see Whisky exchange has what I believe is the same one up at £325 now.