When I first bought Mellow Corn, it was for 2 reasons: the price was super low, and the bottle art was FANTASTIC! I think I heard about Mellow Corn from the Whiskey Tribe channel, and thought, "What do I have to lose? It's super cheap!" I was pleasantly surprised!! I think it's great, and one of the best values in whiskey, period. And I agree with Daniel here, I hope they NEVER change the artwork!
At least one of the studies: Price information influences the subjective experience of wine: A framed field experiment Food Quality and Preference Volume 92 , September 2021, 104223 A second one: Do More Expensive Wines Taste Better? Evidence from a Large Sample of Blind Tastings Journal of Wine Economics, Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2008, Pages 1-9
Corn whisky is the orphan stepchild of the whisky world. Not many people know it exists, and even fewer drink it. I like corn whisky. I've only been able to find a few - five, unless I'm forgetting something - and two of them were absolutely foul. But there are three that I like and will keep buying: Balcones Baby Blue (if I can find it - ever since Balcones quit making bourbon all their juice has gotten rare here) Abasolo, El Whisky de México Mellow Corn
I feel like since I have been watching you and Rex review whiskeys for so long I have become immune to being influenced by the price. Don't tell Rex but I prefer a budget irish more than I like Redbrest and I think Wildturkey 101 is much better than several more pricey bourbons. So I just wanted to say thanks fellas.
Your attempt to sing the Mellow Yellow brought a smile to my face and memories of how good Mellow Yellow soda is. Mellow Corn is OK, but I find WT101 more enjoyable and versatile. Blind tasting is awesome as you don't know what is in the glass, so you enjoy it for what it is. Thank you for your insights.
Several years ago, I sold wine for a distributor for about a year. I got pretty geeky about it, and I was surrounded by other professionals that knew a lot more than me. As part of our ongoing training, we did regular blind tastings. I’ll never forget when we blind-tasted some chardonnays, which included some cheaper brands and some really high and stuff. The one that got the most positive votes was Kendall Jackson, which was and is available everywhere.
If you want to do a blind tasting by yourself without any clues being left. Get a lazy Susan and some blue colored glencairn glasses, maybe three to five. Then you can mix lighter and darker whiskies mark the bottom of the glasses, spin the Susan and not know which is which.
Heard about MC for years, then some years back we fimall got it in our area. I remember how the first few sips just threw my off, as it tasted like the cereal Corn Pops. LOL! Its one of my favorites.
In my younger years, after graduating from college, I typically drank Jonnie Walker Red when I wanted something more special than a beer, and Jonnie Walker Black when I wanted it to be special. As I moved up the food chain, I began spending time with folks who only drank single malt scotch, so naturally I gravitated to that. For decades, I only drank single malt scotches. In my 50’s, I asked myself if I had become a single malt scotch snob. I wondered if I would really be able to tell the difference. So I bought a single malt scotch a blended scotch that I had never tried. They were both the same price. My wife administered a blind taste for me over the course of three consecutive days. Each day, my notes showed I clearly liked once scotch more than the other although I had no idea if I was even choosing the same scotch each day. In the end, when my wife told me the results, I had picked the single malt each day. That was an interesting blind taste test for me.
So my mom (my whiskey buddy) and i do a blind advent calendar every Christmas. We each pick 12 bottles from the collection and we have to guess style, proof, if it was finished, or bottle. Its a great time for sure
I feel the same way about Canadian club and Canadian club 12 year. All of my friends turned their nose up at it, but it’s a smooth whiskey that I really like. When I didn’t tell them what it was they really enjoyed it. But they look at the price tag and feel because it’s affordable it can’t be good. Also Canadian hunter
Don’t sleep on JTS Brown - tried it for the the first time recently and was very pleasantly surprised! For me hard to go wrong with most HH offerings even their budget wheater (Bernheim) punches well above its price.
Yeah, I definitely need to do more blind sipping. There are more than a few times where I have a tough time just choosing what to have. This might be fun though. Oh and yes, I am definitely corny 🌽😆, definitely found my people. Thank you again for another great conversation! Cheers buddy.
That symbol on the left side of the label is from the now gone Medley Brothers Distillery. Heaven Hill makes it now but the Medley Brothers created it. I like to post this info as it's my last name and my paternal grandfather lived in Tennessee so I could be a distant cousin? Cheers
We've been getting a lot of big name American brands here in Quebec recently but not Mellow Corn yet, very interested to see how much they'd charge since they've always put bourbon in line with MSRP (wish I could say the same for Scotch)
Mellow corn is my absolute go to. I saw your vid with Rex and that's what influenced me to go out and buy a bottle. I haven't looked back. Yes the label is great. I do not wear shirts with logos however a Mellow corn t shirt will be the only exception! Gotta get one. Just as a little experiment I dropped a piece of candy corn into a pour and wow, to you Daniel and any one else out there you have to try it. Happy Halloween!
Picked up a 2L home aging barrel last weekend. What better to pick to add extra wood flavor to than a high quality whiskey that's been in used oak? So Mellow Corn is what's going in for my first fill.
So soooo many people overlook the cheaper whiskey and drinks in general just because they are cheap. I’ve always said that you should never judge a drink by its price as there’s some dam good cheap drinks out there.
There’s a few whiskeys I’m familiar with that taste different on different tastings. Not huge differences but enough to notice. I don’t know if it’s just me; maybe things taste different to me regardless whether they actually taste different, depending on my mood or what I’ve eaten, etc… I like mellow corn. But I’d rather have Evan Williams BIB
Man I was super bummed to see you and Rex decide to segregate and focus on the channels separately. But having reinvested in this channel I have totally changed my mind. Rex with his ADHD (no offense intended) approach does way better over at the tribe. And you with your in depth knowledge and gift for story telling, I can tell the right decision was made. I watched your channels since 2018 and didn't have my first bottle of whiskey till this fall. I have decided I am to dumb for bourbon and too poor for scotch so I am starting in Irish.
Not a member of this particular cult, so I'll join you with the closest I've got... Evan Williams Bottled-in-Bond & Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond. I could blind them and try to tell them apart but ... I mean... that one's pretty easy. 🙃
Let's not pretend that drinking blind is automatically a more accurate assessment. This infallibility of blind tasting is one of the most annoying things in the whiskey community. Rather than focusing on learning about different flavors, how to identify them, and how they interact with each other, we are just told over and over to drink it without knowing anything about it. Can it give a different perspective on what we are tasting? Absolutely. Is it the only correct way to assess a whiskey? Absolutely not.
Cult of the Corn has arrived
I tell everyone about this bottle! Best for your buck in like, all of whiskey.
Children of the Corn assemble..🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🥃🥃🥃🥃
Thank you for reviewing mellow corn. Absolutely correct about how underrated it is for the price.
I loved the idea that Daniel's blind whisky tasting involved a spreadsheet. Keep on keeping it real, cheers Daniel, great show as always!
Love me some Mellow Corn!!! Now let us never speak of it again. Some secrets are better left secret...
This format is much more interesting than before. Thanks for the cool video!
Mellow Corn hive, you up?
I love doing blind tastings. They are so much fun, especially when you think you are sure about what it is and you're wrong.
When I first bought Mellow Corn, it was for 2 reasons: the price was super low, and the bottle art was FANTASTIC! I think I heard about Mellow Corn from the Whiskey Tribe channel, and thought, "What do I have to lose? It's super cheap!" I was pleasantly surprised!! I think it's great, and one of the best values in whiskey, period. And I agree with Daniel here, I hope they NEVER change the artwork!
A good friend bought me a bottle. One of the best kept secrets of whiskies.
Great review, btw.👍🏻
At least one of the studies:
Price information influences the subjective experience of wine: A framed field experiment
Food Quality and Preference
Volume 92
, September 2021, 104223
A second one:
Do More Expensive Wines Taste Better?
Evidence from a Large Sample of Blind Tastings
Journal of Wine Economics, Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2008, Pages 1-9
Mellow Corn is always in my collection.
Corn whisky is the orphan stepchild of the whisky world. Not many people know it exists, and even fewer drink it.
I like corn whisky. I've only been able to find a few - five, unless I'm forgetting something - and two of them were absolutely foul. But there are three that I like and will keep buying:
Balcones Baby Blue (if I can find it - ever since Balcones quit making bourbon all their juice has gotten rare here)
Abasolo, El Whisky de México
Mellow Corn
We belong to a club that does blind tastings once a month - Whiskey, wine, etc, etc.
I learn so much every time!
I feel like since I have been watching you and Rex review whiskeys for so long I have become immune to being influenced by the price. Don't tell Rex but I prefer a budget irish more than I like Redbrest and I think Wildturkey 101 is much better than several more pricey bourbons. So I just wanted to say thanks fellas.
Mellow Corn is bae
There's a "Mexican street corn" cocktail with this whiskey that the channel SLB made. Actually pretty nice
I love doing blind tasting in whiskey, rum & Cigars. It truly opens the palette past the mind seeing a label. I wish more people would do it.
Would be cool to see a 120proof Mellow Corn or a 8 year Mellow Corn. I bet they have something somewhere at HH that be cool. But Make it a $40 bottle
I think those would sell for sure
Your attempt to sing the Mellow Yellow brought a smile to my face and memories of how good Mellow Yellow soda is. Mellow Corn is OK, but I find WT101 more enjoyable and versatile. Blind tasting is awesome as you don't know what is in the glass, so you enjoy it for what it is. Thank you for your insights.
Several years ago, I sold wine for a distributor for about a year. I got pretty geeky about it, and I was surrounded by other professionals that knew a lot more than me. As part of our ongoing training, we did regular blind tastings. I’ll never forget when we blind-tasted some chardonnays, which included some cheaper brands and some really high and stuff. The one that got the most positive votes was Kendall Jackson, which was and is available everywhere.
If you want to do a blind tasting by yourself without any clues being left. Get a lazy Susan and some blue colored glencairn glasses, maybe three to five. Then you can mix lighter and darker whiskies mark the bottom of the glasses, spin the Susan and not know which is which.
Don't let everyone in on the secret of mellow corn😂 i don't want that cheap price to go up haha
All hail the corn that is mellow!
Heard about MC for years, then some years back we fimall got it in our area. I remember how the first few sips just threw my off, as it tasted like the cereal Corn Pops. LOL! Its one of my favorites.
In my younger years, after graduating from college, I typically drank Jonnie Walker Red when I wanted something more special than a beer, and Jonnie Walker Black when I wanted it to be special. As I moved up the food chain, I began spending time with folks who only drank single malt scotch, so naturally I gravitated to that. For decades, I only drank single malt scotches. In my 50’s, I asked myself if I had become a single malt scotch snob. I wondered if I would really be able to tell the difference. So I bought a single malt scotch a blended scotch that I had never tried. They were both the same price. My wife administered a blind taste for me over the course of three consecutive days. Each day, my notes showed I clearly liked once scotch more than the other although I had no idea if I was even choosing the same scotch each day. In the end, when my wife told me the results, I had picked the single malt each day. That was an interesting blind taste test for me.
Cheers 🥃
So my mom (my whiskey buddy) and i do a blind advent calendar every Christmas. We each pick 12 bottles from the collection and we have to guess style, proof, if it was finished, or bottle. Its a great time for sure
I have this one in my collection, and i like to go bsck to it every once in a while just to enjoy something cheap, thats still good.
I always have either Mellow Corn, Evan Williams, or Old Grandad on my shelf. Right next to a Macallan 12 or a Balvenie double wood😆
I had my fiancé pour me a blind with 6-8 Irish whiskeys and I was at about 60% correct. Always a fun exercise!
I feel the same way about Canadian club and Canadian club 12 year. All of my friends turned their nose up at it, but it’s a smooth whiskey that I really like. When I didn’t tell them what it was they really enjoyed it. But they look at the price tag and feel because it’s affordable it can’t be good. Also Canadian hunter
I finally finished my bottle and won't be buying another. Its appearance, smell, and taste reminded me of Mazzola Corn Oil.
I was just at Heaven Hill on vacation and bought a mellow corn tank top.. Mellow Corn, EwBiB, and Rittenhouse are the holy budget trinity
Don’t sleep on JTS Brown - tried it for the the first time recently and was very pleasantly surprised! For me hard to go wrong with most HH offerings even their budget wheater (Bernheim) punches well above its price.
He is the great cornholio !!!!
Yeah, I definitely need to do more blind sipping. There are more than a few times where I have a tough time just choosing what to have. This might be fun though. Oh and yes, I am definitely corny 🌽😆, definitely found my people. Thank you again for another great conversation! Cheers buddy.
Nice
This and JTS Brown are my current favorite budget picks. WT101 of course is also great but the price has inched up
Thanks, very interesting. I for one would like to know more about the study you mention.
I've been looking for my favorite
I had no idea that Corn Whiskey had to use uncharred or used barrels. Blinds are great fun, sometimes just guessing the region is a massive challenge.
Have yet to source a bottle but if it appears in the wild I'll definitely grab one.
I have not touched Canadian Club in more than 30 years.
That symbol on the left side of the label is from the now gone Medley Brothers Distillery. Heaven Hill makes it now but the Medley Brothers created it. I like to post this info as it's my last name and my paternal grandfather lived in Tennessee so I could be a distant cousin? Cheers
I would love an experiment where you fake blind Mellow Corn as a high end Irish and see how folks reacted. Maybe put it next to a Powers Gold.
Thanks for the video 🥃
Cheers! 🌽🥃
We've been getting a lot of big name American brands here in Quebec recently but not Mellow Corn yet, very interested to see how much they'd charge since they've always put bourbon in line with MSRP (wish I could say the same for Scotch)
I dig the MFC.
A local bottle shop here in Adelaide Aus has Mellow Corn for $100 AUD.
as always great content!
dang inflation has arrived for mellow corn. used to pick it up for 11$. now its 14$. its almost outta reach
This is the reason I never watch a whiskey review before I try a new bottle. I don't want my opinion altered by an expectation
Mellow corn is my absolute go to. I saw your vid with Rex and that's what influenced me to go out and buy a bottle. I haven't looked back. Yes the label is great. I do not wear shirts with logos however a Mellow corn t shirt will be the only exception! Gotta get one. Just as a little experiment I dropped a piece of candy corn into a pour and wow, to you Daniel and any one else out there you have to try it. Happy Halloween!
AFAIK Mellow Corn is aged 6 years
Picked up a 2L home aging barrel last weekend. What better to pick to add extra wood flavor to than a high quality whiskey that's been in used oak? So Mellow Corn is what's going in for my first fill.
The one blind listener to whiskey vault thinking "Ah fuck."
Mellow Corn is awesome and I wish people would stop talking about it so it stops getting more expensive.😅
So soooo many people overlook the cheaper whiskey and drinks in general just because they are cheap.
I’ve always said that you should never judge a drink by its price as there’s some dam good cheap drinks out there.
There’s a few whiskeys I’m familiar with that taste different on different tastings. Not huge differences but enough to notice. I don’t know if it’s just me; maybe things taste different to me regardless whether they actually taste different, depending on my mood or what I’ve eaten, etc…
I like mellow corn. But I’d rather have Evan Williams BIB
I had it and wanted to like it but it has the ethanol type smell to it and the taste was no go. It's been years so I may try it again.
Drink more Mellow Corn
Elote. It's the best corn.
Man I was super bummed to see you and Rex decide to segregate and focus on the channels separately. But having reinvested in this channel I have totally changed my mind. Rex with his ADHD (no offense intended) approach does way better over at the tribe. And you with your in depth knowledge and gift for story telling, I can tell the right decision was made. I watched your channels since 2018 and didn't have my first bottle of whiskey till this fall. I have decided I am to dumb for bourbon and too poor for scotch so I am starting in Irish.
Not a member of this particular cult, so I'll join you with the closest I've got... Evan Williams Bottled-in-Bond & Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond. I could blind them and try to tell them apart but ... I mean... that one's pretty easy. 🙃
What’s the distribution of mellow corn? I’m unsure if it’s in south Florida at all
Daniel, I wonder which CC it was that you raved about for a minute and a half...
I'm pretty sure it was the most basic bottling
Welcome all Whiskey Vaulters to Story Time "Drink it Blind" with Daniel!
50-60$ in Norway for Mellow Corn 🥵
🌽
I is smart
The problem I have with tasting blind is they all end up with the same underlying roofie note. Very strange.
stranger danger
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I have never seen or Hurd of mellow corn. Huh . Maybe not a North West thing? Idk
Huh?
Three letters. M. F. C.
MFC
Let's not pretend that drinking blind is automatically a more accurate assessment. This infallibility of blind tasting is one of the most annoying things in the whiskey community. Rather than focusing on learning about different flavors, how to identify them, and how they interact with each other, we are just told over and over to drink it without knowing anything about it. Can it give a different perspective on what we are tasting? Absolutely. Is it the only correct way to assess a whiskey? Absolutely not.
Not a huge fan of the MellowCorn because dare I say it… it’s a bit corny for my liking.