Man, I was just sharing my bottle of Mellow Corn with a friend last week who is newer into the whiskey world! Everything you said about it is so spot on, and mirrors my own thoughts on it too. Highly underrated indeed.
This speaks so true. Standard Old Grand Dad is my absolute favorite bourbon. When I give it to friends, they agree. The second they find out what it is and how little it costs, their tune changes for the negative. It’s so funny to me.
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
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
I learned about Mellow Corn from this channel. I tried some, and I always keep a bottle on hand now. I met one of my mom's neighbors a couple of years ago who had a large collection of whiskeys. He also had Mellow Corn. It is the best whiskey, for me, at under $20. Cali Riptide Rye is my favorite for under $30 (though I guess it is $33 now).
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.
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!
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.
had this first time at an underground bartender event with ice sculpture...been a fan ever since. literally like drinking candy corn so bring it to halloween events...it's won't disappoint.
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.
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.
I took an emptied whiskey advent calendar and refilled it from my own collection the next year. Surprisingly difficult even though my collection ranges in the dozens and not hundreds.
Mellow corn is such a great bottle for the price! The refill barrels make it a lot less oak forward than its sister, the EW BiB. I used to buy it regularly when it was available here in Korea, but it stopped being imported earlier this year, sadly...
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!
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
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.
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.
Another one from Heaven Hill I think you could say similar thing's about is " JW Dant bottled in bond" high corn sweet simple but tasty chillin on the bottom shelf for like 17-18 bucks US
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
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)
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
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.
I must say, I've seen this bottle coming up several times. At my country it's a 40 euro bottle (it's about the same range as the Balcones baby bleu corn). What kind of puts me off from buying it, is the bottle design (to me it looks cheap for the price here). I know it's a bias on my part, maybe I just should try it some time. Great video
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.
I dont do blind tastings, and thats a shame, because i dont have someone to pour the blind. But I constantly do side by sides and flights…. With wee glens.
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
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.
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.
Thank you for reviewing mellow corn. Absolutely correct about how underrated it is for the price.
Love me some Mellow Corn!!! Now let us never speak of it again. Some secrets are better left secret...
Man, I was just sharing my bottle of Mellow Corn with a friend last week who is newer into the whiskey world! Everything you said about it is so spot on, and mirrors my own thoughts on it too. Highly underrated indeed.
I loved the idea that Daniel's blind whisky tasting involved a spreadsheet. Keep on keeping it real, cheers Daniel, great show as always!
This speaks so true. Standard Old Grand Dad is my absolute favorite bourbon. When I give it to friends, they agree. The second they find out what it is and how little it costs, their tune changes for the negative. It’s so funny to me.
This format is much more interesting than before. Thanks for the cool video!
A good friend bought me a bottle. One of the best kept secrets of whiskies.
Great review, btw.👍🏻
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
As a bottle that I’ve always wanted to pick and just never have…you talked me into it 😁
Mellow Corn is always in my collection.
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.
Mellow Corn is bae
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 hive, you up?
Thank you for singing that at the end. I know I can't be the only one who had that song in my head the entire time!!! 😂
my favorite cheap whiskey by a mile👌
I learned about Mellow Corn from this channel. I tried some, and I always keep a bottle on hand now. I met one of my mom's neighbors a couple of years ago who had a large collection of whiskeys. He also had Mellow Corn. It is the best whiskey, for me, at under $20. Cali Riptide Rye is my favorite for under $30 (though I guess it is $33 now).
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!
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.
'Comparison' (side by side) tasting is another good way to learn about flavors in whiskey, and to determine what you like/prefer.
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!
You just made the best argument for marketing…
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.
had this first time at an underground bartender event with ice sculpture...been a fan ever since.
literally like drinking candy corn so bring it to halloween events...it's won't disappoint.
We belong to a club that does blind tastings once a month - Whiskey, wine, etc, etc.
I learn so much every time!
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.
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.
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.
I serve Mellow Corn to my friends and tell them it's fancy. They all like it.
There's a "Mexican street corn" cocktail with this whiskey that the channel SLB made. Actually pretty nice
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😆
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
Mellow corn is top 2 corn whiskies I've had. It fights way above it's weight.
Children of the Corn assemble..🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🥃🥃🥃🥃
I took an emptied whiskey advent calendar and refilled it from my own collection the next year.
Surprisingly difficult even though my collection ranges in the dozens and not hundreds.
Mellow corn is such a great bottle for the price! The refill barrels make it a lot less oak forward than its sister, the EW BiB.
I used to buy it regularly when it was available here in Korea, but it stopped being imported earlier this year, sadly...
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.
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!
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
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 🥃
Thanks for the video 🥃
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.
Have yet to source a bottle but if it appears in the wild I'll definitely grab one.
as always great content!
Thanks, very interesting. I for one would like to know more about the study you mention.
He is the great cornholio !!!!
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've been looking for my favorite
Another one from Heaven Hill I think you could say similar thing's about is " JW Dant bottled in bond" high corn sweet simple but tasty chillin on the bottom shelf for like 17-18 bucks US
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.
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
Cheers! 🌽🥃
This and JTS Brown are my current favorite budget picks. WT101 of course is also great but the price has inched up
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)
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
Nice
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.
I dig the MFC.
I must say, I've seen this bottle coming up several times. At my country it's a 40 euro bottle (it's about the same range as the Balcones baby bleu corn). What kind of puts me off from buying it, is the bottle design (to me it looks cheap for the price here). I know it's a bias on my part, maybe I just should try it some time. Great video
What’s the distribution of mellow corn? I’m unsure if it’s in south Florida at all
A local bottle shop here in Adelaide Aus has Mellow Corn for $100 AUD.
I was just at Heaven Hill on vacation and bought a mellow corn tank top.. Mellow Corn, EwBiB, and Rittenhouse are the holy budget trinity
Don’t sleep on JTS Brown - tried it for the the first time recently and was very pleasantly surprised! For me hard to go wrong with most HH offerings even their budget wheater (Bernheim) punches well above its price.
I have not touched Canadian Club in more than 30 years.
I would love an experiment where you fake blind Mellow Corn as a high end Irish and see how folks reacted. Maybe put it next to a Powers Gold.
I had it and wanted to like it but it has the ethanol type smell to it and the taste was no go. It's been years so I may try it again.
Daniel, I wonder which CC it was that you raved about for a minute and a half...
I'm pretty sure it was the most basic bottling
dang inflation has arrived for mellow corn. used to pick it up for 11$. now its 14$. its almost outta reach
I dont do blind tastings, and thats a shame, because i dont have someone to pour the blind. But I constantly do side by sides and flights…. With wee glens.
Mellow Corn is awesome and I wish people would stop talking about it so it stops getting more expensive.😅
Drink more Mellow Corn
At 2k likes whiskey vault does a mellow corn barrel pick
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
Please Bring back the Mooch
Welcome all Whiskey Vaulters to Story Time "Drink it Blind" with Daniel!
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
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.
😁🙌🏻🥃
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. 🙃
The one blind listener to whiskey vault thinking "Ah fuck."
AFAIK Mellow Corn is aged 6 years
Elote. It's the best corn.
🌽
50-60$ in Norway for Mellow Corn 🥵
The problem I have with tasting blind is they all end up with the same underlying roofie note. Very strange.
stranger danger
122👍
I is smart
Huh?
I finally finished my bottle and won't be buying another. Its appearance, smell, and taste reminded me of Mazzola Corn Oil.
I have never seen or Hurd of mellow corn. Huh . Maybe not a North West thing? Idk
I will admit that I have looked this one over because it looks stupidly cheap. I'll give it a go.
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.