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There is a lot to be said about memory and tasting notes. That being said there are some absolutes in notes. Yeasts can produce Isoamyl acetate (artificial banana) and Raspberry Ketones. These are chemically identical to the actual chemicals in the fruit. Vanilla and cinnamon have hundreds of aroma and flavor compounds, but the two most prominent are vanillin and cinnamaldehyde. These can both be synthesized from oak, and the chemicals actually exist in the whiskey. Benzaldehyde is the flavor compound that exists in almonds and the pits of stone fruit that gives amaretto its flavor. It also exists in corn. So when you get Marzipan notes, chances are there's a lot of Benzaldehyde in your whiskey.
A tip for the noobs like myself. Start your night with just a sip or 1/4 oz of something familiar, like OF100 or Jack No. 7 or Turkey 101 or whatever your jam is. Then sip just a bit of water to cleanse and then nose and taste whatever it is that you are trying. It will smell and taste different than your baseline and since you just acclimated your palate to the general whiskey taste and you can start to pick out those differences and associate them with aromas and flavors that are familiar to you. For example if I take a sip of Maker's Cask strength right away I get nothing special off it but if I prime the palate first I get a really intense flavor of red jello, like when you just mix the packet with warm water and stir it.
My favorite nosing note: I poured a glass of Laphroaig 10 CS and my wife said: “Is someone paving an asphalt road in here?” They famously had an ad campaign where people gave humorous notes like “tastes like a burning hospital” and “smells like a seagull’s armpits.” 😂 So whereas the ever lovable Matt does a great job describing where notes come from, they are also a vehicle for entertainment and the witty or vulgar or pretentious use of the language, just like any type of reviewing. For instance, see the music reviews of the band in the classic movie “This is Spinal Tap.” I’ll let you look that one up for grins! 😊
Your tasting and nosing notes from your adventure w/ peated whisky are easily some of your best and most vivid. Anybody asked about how you pronounce "Marshmallow"? I've been saying it wrong this whole time. I thought it was said and spelled with an e no an a.
Thank god you didn’t scrap this video. It has been one of my favorite bc I often feel stupid for not really knowing if what I am smelling is wrong bc it isn’t what a reviewer notes or the notes on the distillery website describe. Thanks Matt!
Matt you keep doing you sir! I’ve fought with my buddies on what I’m tasting in the whiskey for years. They honestly think I’m making this shit up. Next time we’re sipping away on a Saturday night in one of our garage bars, I’ll drop your video on tasting notes to give them the middle finger. Cheeky bastard friends. Forget the trolls & haters though Matt! Keep up the good work!
Sorry to hear about the haters. Nosing is an art in itself. I got the Le Nez du Vin set a while back to help. You wanna stump yourself, pick one of those up and pick randomly. 🥃👃
The best taste I've ever gotten on a bourbon was with Sam Houston 15.... It reminded me of chewing on the leather strands my baseball glove as a kid.... E. H. Taylor I get the taste of Cherry pie and vanilla ice cream. Tasting notes are real!
I think this is a must for all newbies. My grandson walking past my son and I and smelling the whiskey we were drinking, he started yelling Froot Loops. By God he was right, he ran and got the cereal to prove his point. My daughter in law was pissed.
Not new to enjoying better whiskeys. This video actually made a lot of sense. And I do love the not so subtle slams on the haters. Great video as always.
Thanks so much for such an educational video! It is very helpful having the nose and flavor notes explained that way. It gives me a better understanding. Also, I'm totally using "hubcaps" as a note sometime. Thanks for helping me grow! Now don't eat too much of that marzipan stuff, we don't want you to grow that way. Keep up the awesome, Porter!
Matt, EXCELLENT VIDEO! That says it all! Love your content. I know it's gotta be hard creating new content on a continual basis. Keep up the good work!!!
Love the video, love the explanations and love you man. Anyone hating on your tasting notes needs to grow up. Everything we taste is subjective to the individual and should be understood as your own personal view. I wish I had the palette you do. Pleased to finally get a bottle of Wild Turkey kentucky spirit, I have high hopes as rare breed is one of my favourites available in the UK. Keep doing you and ignore the morons ❤
First off, big props for drinking Bustelo. Which, by the way, is probably one of my top 5 things to smell. I am a newbie and I definitely never get a Jolly Rancher or Pink Starburst notes on anything, but I do find it odd that I get heavy cherry notes from Wild Turkey 101 and get so much backlash for saying it. I also hate cherries, so 101, while a great value, is not one I like (Maker's Mark too). I've noticed some dark craft beers I've had have strong coffee and chocolate notes, while containing neither of those in the making of it.I also find there are often times I don't get the notes until after I taste it, even the most common like baking spices, cinammon, caramel, and/or vanilla. Ok, enough babble, I'm going to go have some vodka and let the nose take me back to last night.
Aw man! Hope that Marzipan didn't derail your weight loss too bad, lol. These whiskey tasting notes are one of the biggest things that brought me to enjoying whiskey. It's like sharing a life story with friends just by the notes you get. Also, it's just incredible how such notes develop in whiskey. For example, the latest Junkies JD pick now smells like lays BBQ potato chips on the nose but tastes like Juicy Fruit gum on the palate. This was a great video Matt, keep up the great content.
The dude quotes are on point again! It's funny that you had to even explain tasting and smelling notes, but I glad you did for sure entertainment purposes! "Do youtubers make up tasting notes 'Sean''!" LOL
I'm only 9 minutes in but some scents/flavors are undeniable! I had an Obtainium 15 Year 140pf Light Whiskey and that stuff was 100% butterscotch. I pushed that stuff on people who don't really drink whiskey and they said the same. The way you put it as a suggestion or an essence of a flavor/scent is well put. I've never understood how people honestly tell other people they're not experiencing something. If you can't prove it then you're just being a dick! Great video, Matt! Edit: You have to put marzipan in your next tasting video haha!
Tasting and nosing notes are definitely personal, like you said. I loved this video, Matt...it reminded me that my notes aren't always crazy, they are just based on my memory.
Great advice and explanation! How does one develop the skill of pulling the nose & tasting notes from the whiskey? Perhaps a show on that topic in the near future?
You hit the nail on the head, Matt. Let the haters hate. People that can't relate to tasting notes as a whole should stick with drinking vodka. Oh, and I can't believe that you've never tasted marzipan before, shame on you! Amaretto actually is an italian liqueur originally made of almonds. Cheers!
Awesome vid. Esters are volatile compounds created by reactions between alcohols and acids. Orange, citrus, and red apple smells for example are caused by actual compounds that are found both in fruits in nature and in whiskey or wines as a result of fermentation.
I’ve had a Dancing Goat 8 year corn whiskey SP that the dominant flavor was marzipan. I also believe recency bias of what people ate/drank has extreme influence on folks who believe a freshly cracked bottle can taste radically different a week later. Amongst a myriad of other more likely reasons than the whiskey actually changed.
This video was absolutely hilarious😂 love your content keep up the fantastic amazing work you do! Also I didn’t tell you this but in European small grocery stores all across the US you can find a little thing that is dark chocolate covered marzipan unbelievable
Fantastic video #facts. It is HILARIOUS that some people believe there are "right" and "wrong" nosing / tasting notes for specific whiskeys. Whiskey notes come from your own experiences and memories. As an example - if you never had Flintstone Vitamins as a kid, you probably shouldn't claim to get Flintstone Vitamin notes on Dickel. Cuz uh... how would you know? At that point, you're just copying other people said they got on the whiskey... ...and HEY, wait a minute, KIRA gets notes of French Fries all the time! Hater! Hater!
Great video and topic! You aren't going to be able to recall a tasting note if you've never tasted that thing to begin with! I love hearing the tasting note of sultanas all the time... what the hell is a sultana?!?
LOL I think I agree with all you said. However, there are some chemicals that can be present that represent certain flavors. When ethanol in high concentration interacts with the oak the lignin breaks down and releases vanillin and ethyl vanillin is artificial vanilla flavor. Ethyl acetate is present and tastes a bit like green apple. And the wood will give up cinnamonoids so some spicy notes. If you know the chemicals then you can determine what flavors you would detect. But all the rest of things....yeah just what an individaul might think. You tell it like it is and that is awesome.
This is how it is with cigars. I have to explain this when I say I'm picking up grass or manure. It's not a flavor but a memory. So every review won't be the same.
Great video! This is the most annoying topic that comes up so often on whiskey forums. I genuinely don't get why people who think tasting notes are made up even hang on those forums. Tasting notes are real. As you said, they're very memory associated. Olfaction is a huge part of taste and, as I'm sure many people know, the olfactory bulb connects directly to the hippocampus and piriform (olfactory) cortex. *This is different from other senses that are relayed through the thalamus.* While its unclear if this is the exact reason why chemosensory information (taste + smell) is so much more memory associated, its clearly true that they are memory associated senses. An issue people have is they don't pay attention while they're eating or drinking normally, so when they try to call on notes, they don't have the "vocabulary" to pull from. Additionally, they expect to be able to discriminate flavors right away when.. why would they be able to do that if they haven't practiced? A musician can practice tone discrimination (sans people with "perfect pitch," although they might be analogous to "super tasters") to get better at being like, "Oh, that note was an A. I know that because I practiced enough, have a 'reference' song where I know an A is, and can compare the two." So why would another sense be any different? For reference- I worked in a neuroscience taste lab for 2 years after college and now am finishing up a PhD in separate neuroscience field. But when working in the taste lab, we would run experiments that would require lab rats to discriminate tastes in something called a "Go-No Go" task, and guess what? They would get exponentially better at discriminating tastes! Also, "Just because your bitchass doesn't know what a thimbleberry is..." is a fantastic comment
I love how individually nosing notes end up being. Keep on being you with the notes Matt. And remember you’re successful when you have haters unfortunately 😂
I don't give 2 sh*ts if anyone gets what I get from whiskey. I don't hide the fact that I give very mediocre whiskey reviews. Sometimes I don't taste a damn thing. I really suck at this, but I'm gonna keep on doing it cuz I enjoy it :) Keep being you Matt and F the haters and their small pp's!
Fred also tastes corn bread in a ton of his tastings. Don’t know what corn bread smells like - based on his recollection - but I’ve had enough corn bread to know that he and I have different senses of smell.
Nosing and tasting notes are very real but they are very dependent on the individual. I don’t nose very long I nose just to figure out if it smells good then I go into tasting.. as taste is the real reason we drink if it doesn’t taste good your not going to drink it. Yes some times I’ll get popcorn on some rye’s while nosing but have never had it on my palate. Again if you don’t get all the things others do don’t let that get your panties in a bind. Drink what you like and be happy.. Enjoy!!
Well, there goes 15 minutes of the nosing I’m going to get off a free bottle of Johnny Walker red gifted to me like I do every year around Christmas notes. Thanks.
My senses of taste and smell suck with bourbon notes but are fine for foods. However, all of New Holland’s high abv stuff hits me hard with peach. RD1’s amburana finish tastes like Quaker Oats Apple & Cinnamons instant oatmeal.
One of the kids at work brought in these cheap chili candy gummies, and everybody tried them. Nobody liked them, but they couldn't quite say why. I had one and said that it tasted like shampoo smelled, specifically Garnier Fructis. And suddenly they were all on board, and the bag of candy went in the garbage.
People have seriously time enough to get mad about tasting notes? While I'm not into bourbon, me and my friends do this with beer all the time - smell it and taste it, compare notes and laugh at some shit we could, and couldn't place. And at times, hearing a note just make something you can't place just make sense. Favorite one being a vintage barley-wine which we sniffed for a long while, until a friend places the scent as burnt honey - since his grandpa used to make some honey-caramel-ish sweets? So we tried to caramelize and subsequently burn some honey - and sure enough. There it was. Never stop nosing stuff friends.
Solid gold entertainment. I’m here for the tasting notes. When I need to change my password I come for tasting notes as suggestions. “BruleeButterCreamwithAHintofToastedHay” is my bank password.
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This vid got me as hard as the old bag of brown sugar in the back of the cabinet
All bourbon taste the same. You’re a true alcoholic if you believe there is a difference. Prove me wrong
The shade being thrown at Sean cracked me up!! 😂😂. Keep your head on a swivel, Matt!
There is a lot to be said about memory and tasting notes. That being said there are some absolutes in notes.
Yeasts can produce Isoamyl acetate (artificial banana) and Raspberry Ketones. These are chemically identical to the actual chemicals in the fruit.
Vanilla and cinnamon have hundreds of aroma and flavor compounds, but the two most prominent are vanillin and cinnamaldehyde. These can both be synthesized from oak, and the chemicals actually exist in the whiskey.
Benzaldehyde is the flavor compound that exists in almonds and the pits of stone fruit that gives amaretto its flavor. It also exists in corn. So when you get Marzipan notes, chances are there's a lot of Benzaldehyde in your whiskey.
Very cool info! THat's one of those things that I vaguely knew, so I appreciate you breaking it down.
Listen here red, don’t change a thing. We love you just the way you are! PS, thank you for Mansplaining to the short PP holding goobers
A tip for the noobs like myself. Start your night with just a sip or 1/4 oz of something familiar, like OF100 or Jack No. 7 or Turkey 101 or whatever your jam is. Then sip just a bit of water to cleanse and then nose and taste whatever it is that you are trying. It will smell and taste different than your baseline and since you just acclimated your palate to the general whiskey taste and you can start to pick out those differences and associate them with aromas and flavors that are familiar to you. For example if I take a sip of Maker's Cask strength right away I get nothing special off it but if I prime the palate first I get a really intense flavor of red jello, like when you just mix the packet with warm water and stir it.
My favorite nosing note: I poured a glass of Laphroaig 10 CS and my wife said: “Is someone paving an asphalt road in here?” They famously had an ad campaign where people gave humorous notes like “tastes like a burning hospital” and “smells like a seagull’s armpits.” 😂 So whereas the ever lovable Matt does a great job describing where notes come from, they are also a vehicle for entertainment and the witty or vulgar or pretentious use of the language, just like any type of reviewing. For instance, see the music reviews of the band in the classic movie “This is Spinal Tap.” I’ll let you look that one up for grins! 😊
"This one goes to 11"
"Shit sandwich"
@@DrJimmy88 You can’t print that!
@@tommyrq180 I read that in a fake British accent!
When I drink Rare Breed it brings back memories of last Saturday when I drank Rare Breed.
Your tasting and nosing notes from your adventure w/ peated whisky are easily some of your best and most vivid.
Anybody asked about how you pronounce "Marshmallow"? I've been saying it wrong this whole time. I thought it was said and spelled with an e no an a.
Great video, great explanation Matt, all the same applied to cigars too. It’s all about building up the reference notes.
The best tasting explanation video on tasting notes I have seen Matt. Explaining it in a way we can al understand. Well done sir!!
Thank god you didn’t scrap this video. It has been one of my favorite bc I often feel stupid for not really knowing if what I am smelling is wrong bc it isn’t what a reviewer notes or the notes on the distillery website describe. Thanks Matt!
Most gentlemanly, polite rant ever!
The power of suggestion transition to “like and subscribe” was the most memorable thing from the video, hands down!
Matt you keep doing you sir!
I’ve fought with my buddies on what I’m tasting in the whiskey for years. They honestly think I’m making this shit up. Next time we’re sipping away on a Saturday night in one of our garage bars, I’ll drop your video on tasting notes to give them the middle finger. Cheeky bastard friends.
Forget the trolls & haters though Matt! Keep up the good work!
Sorry to hear about the haters. Nosing is an art in itself. I got the Le Nez du Vin set a while back to help. You wanna stump yourself, pick one of those up and pick randomly. 🥃👃
Love waking up in the morning to a nice cup of coffee and the new ADHD video! Keep up the good work bro!
Love the subtle Lebowski reference. Great vid Matt, notes have a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-yous......
Beautifully said! LOL
I also LOVE marzipan! I cant believe youve never had it before! Glad you have finally been introduced! :D
Again spot on big guy , fun part of the taste with my buddies
Different guy different stories !
Great explanation! Such a cool way to describe the experience.
Best comedic whiskeytuber on RUclips. Made me laugh do hard I ppd my pants
Finding the small hints of flavor combinations isn't specific to alcohol, it's more a combination of tasting and smelling anything in general
The best taste I've ever gotten on a bourbon was with Sam Houston 15.... It reminded me of chewing on the leather strands my baseball glove as a kid.... E. H. Taylor I get the taste of Cherry pie and vanilla ice cream. Tasting notes are real!
I think this is a must for all newbies. My grandson walking past my son and I and smelling the whiskey we were drinking, he started yelling Froot Loops. By God he was right, he ran and got the cereal to prove his point. My daughter in law was pissed.
This isn't just great for newbies. This is great for anyone. Thanks for the time.
Definitely one of your more informative videos. Good stuff Matt!
Thanks so much on how I might approach a sip of a bourbon or rye. Now I know I should be looking for memories also...
Absolutely love your videos! Keep it up man!
Props for going DEEP on that marzipan bite haha, that was a lot. And congrats trying it for the first time :)
Matt talking shit is the best!!!
Not new to enjoying better whiskeys. This video actually made a lot of sense. And I do love the not so subtle slams on the haters. Great video as always.
Thanks so much for such an educational video! It is very helpful having the nose and flavor notes explained that way. It gives me a better understanding. Also, I'm totally using "hubcaps" as a note sometime. Thanks for helping me grow! Now don't eat too much of that marzipan stuff, we don't want you to grow that way. Keep up the awesome, Porter!
Matt, EXCELLENT VIDEO! That says it all! Love your content. I know it's gotta be hard creating new content on a continual basis. Keep up the good work!!!
I appreciate you saying this, and you are hilarious!!
Love the video, love the explanations and love you man. Anyone hating on your tasting notes needs to grow up. Everything we taste is subjective to the individual and should be understood as your own personal view. I wish I had the palette you do. Pleased to finally get a bottle of Wild Turkey kentucky spirit, I have high hopes as rare breed is one of my favourites available in the UK. Keep doing you and ignore the morons ❤
Wicked awesome explanation and backed by common sense. If you want to ditch that BRT-02…..send it my way…😎
Excellent video Mr.Porter!
First off, big props for drinking Bustelo. Which, by the way, is probably one of my top 5 things to smell. I am a newbie and I definitely never get a Jolly Rancher or Pink Starburst notes on anything, but I do find it odd that I get heavy cherry notes from Wild Turkey 101 and get so much backlash for saying it. I also hate cherries, so 101, while a great value, is not one I like (Maker's Mark too). I've noticed some dark craft beers I've had have strong coffee and chocolate notes, while containing neither of those in the making of it.I also find there are often times I don't get the notes until after I taste it, even the most common like baking spices, cinammon, caramel, and/or vanilla. Ok, enough babble, I'm going to go have some vodka and let the nose take me back to last night.
Aw man! Hope that Marzipan didn't derail your weight loss too bad, lol. These whiskey tasting notes are one of the biggest things that brought me to enjoying whiskey. It's like sharing a life story with friends just by the notes you get. Also, it's just incredible how such notes develop in whiskey. For example, the latest Junkies JD pick now smells like lays BBQ potato chips on the nose but tastes like Juicy Fruit gum on the palate. This was a great video Matt, keep up the great content.
You are an absolute riot! Great info and amazing smack talk to those haters! Loved it!
this was great! Right up there with your Van Winkle how-to-taste-bourbon review.
Marzipan! Hey, I get that. How about Cardamom? A little citrus like a Kumquat? LMAO
The dude quotes are on point again! It's funny that you had to even explain tasting and smelling notes, but I glad you did for sure entertainment purposes! "Do youtubers make up tasting notes 'Sean''!" LOL
Have to put out in the universe that Matt you are so dam entertaining. Please never change-- I look forward to every video you drop-
Nothin but love for ya here bro!
When I taste or smell whiskey the memories that always come back are previous times I've tasted or smelled whiskey...
Love the Belvita blueberry breakfast biscuits. They are great.
I'm headed to Isle Royale backpacking in 2 weeks. Hope the thimble berries are ripe so I can add them to my oatmeal! That's funny you mentioned that!
I'm only 9 minutes in but some scents/flavors are undeniable! I had an Obtainium 15 Year 140pf Light Whiskey and that stuff was 100% butterscotch. I pushed that stuff on people who don't really drink whiskey and they said the same. The way you put it as a suggestion or an essence of a flavor/scent is well put. I've never understood how people honestly tell other people they're not experiencing something. If you can't prove it then you're just being a dick! Great video, Matt! Edit: You have to put marzipan in your next tasting video haha!
We love Matt, protect this whiskey Wizz at all costs, also now I want a tube of marzipan
Tasting and nosing notes are definitely personal, like you said. I loved this video, Matt...it reminded me that my notes aren't always crazy, they are just based on my memory.
Great advice and explanation! How does one develop the skill of pulling the nose & tasting notes from the whiskey? Perhaps a show on that topic in the near future?
Favorite video so far! This or the glitter beard. Love your work. Team Dan!
You hit the nail on the head, Matt. Let the haters hate. People that can't relate to tasting notes as a whole should stick with drinking vodka.
Oh, and I can't believe that you've never tasted marzipan before, shame on you! Amaretto actually is an italian liqueur originally made of almonds. Cheers!
Straight facts!!! Great explanation of the tasting process Matt in a way only you can 😂😂
One year of sipping, all bourbon tastes different, but i pickup no notes lol. I just think ohh I love this one, that’s the extent of it for me.
I like to smell the empty dryed out glasses in the morning after a few pours, crazy how different they all are.
This video reminds me of good and plenty candies. Cause this is licorice ain’t for everybody. Well said Matt.
Pops the box open “Denmark”. 😂. Awesome video.
Nailed it Matthew,great video.
Awesome vid. Esters are volatile compounds created by reactions between alcohols and acids. Orange, citrus, and red apple smells for example are caused by actual compounds that are found both in fruits in nature and in whiskey or wines as a result of fermentation.
That bought back a memory of eating a mouse made of chocolate coated marzipan with a licorice strip tail. Mmmmm
I’ve had a Dancing Goat 8 year corn whiskey SP that the dominant flavor was marzipan.
I also believe recency bias of what people ate/drank has extreme influence on folks who believe a freshly cracked bottle can taste radically different a week later. Amongst a myriad of other more likely reasons than the whiskey actually changed.
This video was absolutely hilarious😂 love your content keep up the fantastic amazing work you do! Also I didn’t tell you this but in European small grocery stores all across the US you can find a little thing that is dark chocolate covered marzipan unbelievable
Fantastic video #facts. It is HILARIOUS that some people believe there are "right" and "wrong" nosing / tasting notes for specific whiskeys. Whiskey notes come from your own experiences and memories. As an example - if you never had Flintstone Vitamins as a kid, you probably shouldn't claim to get Flintstone Vitamin notes on Dickel. Cuz uh... how would you know? At that point, you're just copying other people said they got on the whiskey...
...and HEY, wait a minute, KIRA gets notes of French Fries all the time! Hater! Hater!
Great video and topic! You aren't going to be able to recall a tasting note if you've never tasted that thing to begin with! I love hearing the tasting note of sultanas all the time... what the hell is a sultana?!?
Cafe Bustelo FTW!
LOL I think I agree with all you said. However, there are some chemicals that can be present that represent certain flavors. When ethanol in high concentration interacts with the oak the lignin breaks down and releases vanillin and ethyl vanillin is artificial vanilla flavor. Ethyl acetate is present and tastes a bit like green apple. And the wood will give up cinnamonoids so some spicy notes. If you know the chemicals then you can determine what flavors you would detect. But all the rest of things....yeah just what an individaul might think. You tell it like it is and that is awesome.
This is how it is with cigars. I have to explain this when I say I'm picking up grass or manure. It's not a flavor but a memory. So every review won't be the same.
LOL... since I only love what you post, you know what that says about me. Hahahaha
Madagascar had me rolling! And then Denmark! Chef’s Kiss my friend.
Great video! This is the most annoying topic that comes up so often on whiskey forums. I genuinely don't get why people who think tasting notes are made up even hang on those forums.
Tasting notes are real. As you said, they're very memory associated. Olfaction is a huge part of taste and, as I'm sure many people know, the olfactory bulb connects directly to the hippocampus and piriform (olfactory) cortex. *This is different from other senses that are relayed through the thalamus.* While its unclear if this is the exact reason why chemosensory information (taste + smell) is so much more memory associated, its clearly true that they are memory associated senses.
An issue people have is they don't pay attention while they're eating or drinking normally, so when they try to call on notes, they don't have the "vocabulary" to pull from. Additionally, they expect to be able to discriminate flavors right away when.. why would they be able to do that if they haven't practiced? A musician can practice tone discrimination (sans people with "perfect pitch," although they might be analogous to "super tasters") to get better at being like, "Oh, that note was an A. I know that because I practiced enough, have a 'reference' song where I know an A is, and can compare the two." So why would another sense be any different?
For reference- I worked in a neuroscience taste lab for 2 years after college and now am finishing up a PhD in separate neuroscience field. But when working in the taste lab, we would run experiments that would require lab rats to discriminate tastes in something called a "Go-No Go" task, and guess what? They would get exponentially better at discriminating tastes!
Also, "Just because your bitchass doesn't know what a thimbleberry is..." is a fantastic comment
I love how individually nosing notes end up being. Keep on being you with the notes Matt. And remember you’re successful when you have haters unfortunately 😂
I don't give 2 sh*ts if anyone gets what I get from whiskey. I don't hide the fact that I give very mediocre whiskey reviews. Sometimes I don't taste a damn thing. I really suck at this, but I'm gonna keep on doing it cuz I enjoy it :) Keep being you Matt and F the haters and their small pp's!
Awesome... enough said!
"Which you've never smelled a bush in your entire life" Damn son! lol
Asking for opinions, is kentucky owl batch 12 worth buying, online 200. Is post Dixon kentucky owl any good?
Best explanation I have ever heard,
Matt…you son of a batch…great video!
Fred also tastes corn bread in a ton of his tastings. Don’t know what corn bread smells like - based on his recollection - but I’ve had enough corn bread to know that he and I have different senses of smell.
John J. Bowman is so far the only whisky I've tried that gave me a marzipan taste, just subtly in there. Now I want more John J. Bowman.
I like how you pronounce marshmallows, I think I pronounce it wrong. Keep up the great videos fishing ;).
It just has to taste good that's it. If I pick any notes then that's cool ,not trying to nerd out too much
Nosing and tasting notes are very real but they are very dependent on the individual. I don’t nose very long I nose just to figure out if it smells good then I go into tasting.. as taste is the real reason we drink if it doesn’t taste good your not going to drink it. Yes some times I’ll get popcorn on some rye’s while nosing but have never had it on my palate. Again if you don’t get all the things others do don’t let that get your panties in a bind. Drink what you like and be happy.. Enjoy!!
The hot plastic from a porta-potty. That's Mello corn
Well, there goes 15 minutes of the nosing I’m going to get off a free bottle of Johnny Walker red gifted to me like I do every year around Christmas notes. Thanks.
You took that tube of marzipan like a champ, lol
Damn you power of suggestion
My senses of taste and smell suck with bourbon notes but are fine for foods. However, all of New Holland’s high abv stuff hits me hard with peach. RD1’s amburana finish tastes like Quaker Oats Apple & Cinnamons instant oatmeal.
It’s the same thing in wine. It’s the alcohol that gives it the aromas and flavors.
One of the kids at work brought in these cheap chili candy gummies, and everybody tried them. Nobody liked them, but they couldn't quite say why. I had one and said that it tasted like shampoo smelled, specifically Garnier Fructis. And suddenly they were all on board, and the bag of candy went in the garbage.
Awesome video - can't wait until you use marzipan in a review for the first time now!
Is their name Sean Paisley... 😅 Great video, Matt.
i loved this video!
Love this video.
I'm pretty sure that I've picked up on the hubcap note when drinking a cheap blended scotch. Mildly metallic, with a whiff of wheel bearing grease.
This was AMAZING 😂
People have seriously time enough to get mad about tasting notes?
While I'm not into bourbon, me and my friends do this with beer all the time - smell it and taste it, compare notes and laugh at some shit we could, and couldn't place. And at times, hearing a note just make something you can't place just make sense.
Favorite one being a vintage barley-wine which we sniffed for a long while, until a friend places the scent as burnt honey - since his grandpa used to make some honey-caramel-ish sweets? So we tried to caramelize and subsequently burn some honey - and sure enough. There it was. Never stop nosing stuff friends.
Solid gold entertainment. I’m here for the tasting notes. When I need to change my password I come for tasting notes as suggestions. “BruleeButterCreamwithAHintofToastedHay” is my bank password.