Can you FIX BAD whiskey (with spices and groceries?)
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Sometimes you try a new whiskey bottle and it's... not what you hoped for. But what can you do to make it better? There's a finite number of flavors you can pull from mixers and traditional cocktail ingredients. But what if you took off the handcuffs and threw your entire pantry at the disappointing bottle? Turns out, people have been experimenting with whiskey like this for generations! Accidental historical precedent for the win?
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Ahhh yes the bone marrow of cherries, also known as cyanide
Beat me to it
A cherry pit does contain a toxin called a cyanogenic glycoside; however, accidentally eating several seeds or pits will not result in cyanide toxicity.
@@margeoconnor166 agreed. It would take many cherry puts to do any harm. Still though it was an amusing thing in context.
@@margeoconnor166 There's a massive difference between eating a whole pit and a ground up pit, a broken or ground pit being far worse.
It's Carmel
Best way to use bad whiskey.
1: use for cooking
2: drink after drinking too much good whiskey
3: give to your enemies
4. use to clean out the inside of the nosing glass before having real good whisky
I always keep a bottle of bad whisky in the cabinet. Just for the contrast between that and a good whisky
I use Ancient Age for cooking. Its not bad. Just too weak. I don't know what I would have done with Jim Beam Black. I gave it 2 chances and poured it done the drain. Those were the first 2 I tried before finding Evan Williams drinkable and then finding my go to; Wild Turkey 101.
5. add food coloring to make it look like a good whiskey then use as a practical joke.
@@rogerhuggettjr.7675 Evan Williams for the win! WT 101 and buffalo trace are also really solid. Sad that liquor taxes are around 6-7 dollars per bottle.
The best part of a boxed whiskey, is when you finish it, you have a box to vomit in when you are done.
Jacob Kelly 🎶 the best part of waking up if folgers in your cup 🎶
Jacob Kelly That is a optimistic approach to things. I can appreciate that.
Lol not what i was expecting but alright
It's amazing that someone with such a rich palate for whisky can be as picky as a 4 year old when it comes to actual food
On this episode of two beards and a bourbon, exactly how the cocktail came to be. “Make a bad alchohol better with non alcohol stuff”
The cyanide from the Cherrie bones is what gives it flavor.
I was about to comment "little did they know... cherry pits have cyanide"
Someone should let Rex know, less is more sometimes.
You know what l like about these last two episodes?
The Texture.
New challenge: fix Military Special blended. It’s impossible.
How to "Rextify" a whiskey
Rectify was the wrong word dan😂
The Tribe discovered cocktails?
I can’t help but wonder if that Whiskey Tribe “I” animation would work better from the bottom up, like pouring a whiskey 🤔
Brett Lair lmao great comment
I thought it was mimicking the legs in a glass.
I think this mimics it well. Pouring the whiskey pushes air down which then rises up, just as in the video.
I recently picked up a bourbon that I ended up not liking. so I stuck a cinnamon stick in the bottle and left it there for 2 months. it turned into an awesome tasting fireball without the super sweet.
I ended up doing it again and I keep that around all the time now.
NUTMEEEEEEEG!
My Townsend brothers will know.
That's how it is done at the Nutmeg Tavern.
Ah yes townsend lives down the street from me, i get my reenactment gear from his shop. Hes kind of an asshole in person, but he sure knows a lot
Aye
Should we tell Rex that cherry pits are highly toxic?!?
Yeah and alcohol isn't?
Cherry pits are not nearly toxic enough for a handful of cherries to do any damage. It would take thousands to reach a lethal dose. They're just fine.
Cherries can have .17 grams of cynaide in a pit. 1 gram can kill a human sooooo
@@alexgray9136 no it would take hundreds of cherry pits ground up and eaten as paste to kill a human.
Evan Williams is amazing with a bowl of frozen cherries
Two of them in two fingers then melt the cherry in your mouth while you sip. It’s damn near heaven
It doesn't flow like motor oil, it flows like molasses:) Molasses is the gold standard for that comparison.
It wouldn't be motor oil that flows like molasses though. It would be more like gear oil.
The intro's cinematics are ON POINT. A short highlight of what is coming at us.
Edit:
Daniel, the somm: "you gotta have a light touch"
Rex, the mooch: *internally wanting to dump everything in the jar*
macerate is to soak in liquid
masticate is to chew
lacerate is to cut/shred....
and caramel is pronounce keuurrrmël (in the states of 'murica)
great video as per usual
What...never heard of Southern Comfort? 😂
The OG when it comes to making swill taste like...well...doctored swill.
Didn't expect that "mastication" came from Daniel. It's Rex's stuff 🤯
Aren't ground up cherry pits super dangerous because they contain a compound that turns into cyanide with in the body
The compound turns to cyanide with exposure to air. But, neither of them drank enough of the swill to endanger them to any degree.
Plus on top of that, I think when he added the cherry to the first whisky he was trying to add the cherry without the pit.
Edit: but the second one... Which I hadn't seen yet... Ooof.
Add Ardbeg to subpar whisky. You're welcome.
That was clearly the 2020 edition of Compass box!💁🏽
So infusing some of the flavours (like when making liqueurs) might actually improve the whiskey....
Makes sense - not totally different from the barrel itself I suppose......
As a quote bad whiskey drinker unquote go with the rule of 3...after 3 drink it dont matter
Did anyone notice Daniel protecting his crotch when Rex first turned on the blender
Most natural human reaction ever 🤣
I think they overdid it, I get they are fooling around but it would be interesting to see if one could really make a bad whisky drinkable by adding subtle noses of ingredients
I can totally see the effort that you all have put into production value this year The videos look and sound so good.
Daniel mumbling Girl from Ipanema made my night lol
Can you guys do a video on the at home aging kits?
Love the intro!
This isn’t rectifying spirits, it’s REXtifying
This reminds me of a Northern Exposure episode.
Aaah, Rex-tifying a whiskey...got it. After reading the comments, looks like I'm not the only one that thought this lol. The mad scientists at work.
Didn't see a reference - the movie "Mr Roberts" - they have scene in there where they are counterfeiting scotch. Review that!
Cool, you changed the Intro. Although I loved the previous one, this one is good too. More modern, and quick. That's awesome
*I use Frangelico and if its cold it's even better*
The editing throughout this video is above and beyond.
I like the new intro, but why is there a random shot of Honey being poured into a Glencairn
The faces Rex was making when running the blender, reminded me of a little kid doing something they knew they shouldn't be doing. These videos are awesome!
Wow. What an intro, reminds me of Chef’s Table...classy move
The new intro is fantastic! Awesomely made and very classy
On this day Daniel and Rex Invented mixed drinks 🍷
The new whiskey tribe intro is FIRE!!!🔥🔥🔥
Who else searched Whiskey in a box at that exact moment?
Edit: I guess I HAVE seen some boxed spirits at a Bowling Alley...
Wait what. Daniel is a whiskey super taster but not adventureous with food? That actually surprised me. The two go hand in hand. If you have reference points in food you can use it with drink and vice versa.
Ehhhh, look at that fancy intro!
Are the Magnificent Bastard glencairns coming back?
whiskeygenius.com/products/magnificent-bastard-glencairn
gang shit
So a whiskey glory hole.would be necessary to enjoy this whiskey?.....I'm intrigued as well as horriified.....and totally out.
Such a baby for complaining about the texture of apples. So....what's the problem with the Okra? It's the texture. LOL.
This one made me laugh! One thought to share, Less is More!! Not so heavy on the add-ins next time
I can't believe you used preground black pepper and preground nutmeg. REMAKE THE EPISODE
cherry seeds have small amounts of cyanide not a good idea to blend them lol
The amount is too small for any real effect
Best way I've found to "fix" a really bad whiskey? Take empty, clean bottles, fill 1/3 cane sugar, 1/3 blackberry, 1/3 whisk(e)y (Not peated whiskeys though. Literally anything else works). Leave for at least 3 months and strain. It makes a really nice liqueur. Some whiskeys just can't be saved any other way.
If you use food to add flavors to whiskey, you're making flavored whiskey. So the title of this video is really asking "Can you fix bad whiskey by using it to make flavored whiskey?"
You have another video called "Is Flavored Whiskey Actually Bad", which exists because people think it's bad. So the question you're asking in this video is actually the reason people think flavored whiskey is bad: because it is. If you try to cover up poor quality with additional flavors, you won't get good quality, you get bad quality with extra flavors.
Also, I'm pretty sure the methods you're using in this video are pretty far from the successful flavoring techniques that actually exist which people actually use. You're odds of failure here are pretty much 100%.
1. Use it in mixed drinks
2. Get drunk on decent whiskey, then drink the bad whiskey. You really won't notice how bad it is......... probably.
Whiskey & food? Bourbon and pecans, and bourbon and dark chocolate.
FYI: Sugar does not dissolve in alcohol, but it does in water. Dissolve sugar in a minimal amount of water, then add the water to the whiskey. The same applies with salt.
Just a little, you know, thing, obviously they survived fine, but eating the centre of cherry stones (whilst apparently tasty, almond like) produces hydrogen cyanide when digested.
Shoulda put all those ingredients in a cheese cloth (or some other fine mesh material) sachet to allow them to flavour your whiskey, like a teabag, therefore avoiding particulates and other little floaty thingys in your drink(s) :-) Also avoiding all those straining, straining, attempts. :-D
Just have to remember how potent a lot of your ingredients are lol(i cringed watching how much molasses Daniel was dumping in, for example)
Then let it 'steep', checking it every 1/2 hour or hour (or less if you so choose), till you get near your desired profile(s).
You could also divide your ingredients into separate sachets, so you can add or remove at your leisure, controlling the strength of particular flavours.
(A good experiment for a later date, following the aforementioned process, would be to have a second set of everything, but with the additives kept in a freezer till time to use, because i read somewhere that the thawing process, affects the speed/quantity of the release of flavours...and it could be amusing.....errm...I mean...educational...to see it proven or disproven, by the esteemed Master Mooch, and Master Hobbit..uh..I mean Somalia...umm?...Sommelier)
Just a thought ;-)
Ok here’s a horrible idea. Pick up something called mberry from Amazon. It hijacks your tastebuds and turns everything sour into sweet. Then try whisky on camera. You can blame me.
The best thing to do with Kentucky Gentleman other than mix it with Coke is use it to make a coffee liqueur. To a quart add a half a vanilla bean, instant freeze dried coffee and sugar, about a half to a cup each. Let sit for 90 days.
Or make coff surp surprise. Bottle o KY Gent or Carstairs drink a few drinks replace the loss with dried cherries. Wait three times. Get hang over. Have mimosas at 10:30 go to work late, have coffee, go home cuz you look ill. Go fishing drink, beer because you lost job and need eats. I assume you own your home else DONT DO THIS
Add maple syrup. Strange but true. The cheaper the spirit the more you add. Knob creek 5ml to 30ml. cheap whiskey 50/50
For adding flavours you can not call it whisky if you add f.e. maple syrup or picklejuice. But!! You can barrel-age just about anything. I wonder wat would happen if you age a whisky in barrels that before had aged pickles or maple sirup in them.. 😊
Yes, we would love to see you try!
Whisky in a box sales in 2020 just went up exponentially across North America.
Rum works fine for that kinda apple, but Brandy works best. With a bit of cinnamon and brown sugar. Mmmmm...
Can you flavor whiskey absolutely. You need to make flavored syrups or toasted spices. You absolutely need heat to bring out flavor compounds before adding into alcohol.
quality canadian maple syrup, cinnamon stick, some real vanilla bean, whole peppercorn, and a little time, these things work without effecting the spirits clarity.. What the hell guys XD
This isn't really fixing whiskey as much as making shitty cocktails, haha. Brings back memories of making the cheapest of booze palatable as college kids.
Pour pale, flavorless whiskey thru brown sugar in a coffee filter. A small amount of wet coffee grounds works too. Really, your making a liqueur. Good vanilla extract. Lemon, orange zest. Get some toasted oak chips and re-age. I made a mint Julip concentrate one time, but didn't write down the amounts.
I tried to infuse a cheap whiskey with apples, oranges, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla. Needless to say, it didn't turn out great. At all. Haven't experimented since because I don't want to waste any more whiskey. :P
Careful guys. This may be a touch NSFW. After all. Rex was (mixed) nutting in the box (of whiskey)
I once had a cheap bourbon I strongly disliked. I added 1/2 a teaspoon of honey, 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice to the bottle. It went amazingly.
You guys are crazy ... but in a very good way. However you are going at it all wrong, to fix a bad whiskey just add a couple of sticks of toasted oak that you made yourself from a piece of firewood. Maybe add a small piece of cinnamon stick, maybe a couple of peppercorns, maybe a whole clove, maybe a piece of dried orange peel. Then filter it after a week. You get a whole new whiskey that is a big improvement over the starting "bad" whiskey.
Dudes! Full flavor molasses? You should have opted for the mild! At least you didn't accidentally buy blackstrap.
I didn’t have the patience to look through 181 comments, but I might be the only guy who appreciates “the girl from Ipanema”
For caramel you should use just the sugar and no other things. There will be very different flavors as you progress through the darkness of the caramel.
You can infuse all kinds of flavors into an alcohol. I make my own vanilla extract with a 750 of vodka or generic white rum. If the vodka/rum has it's own distinctive flavors then it will confllict. add 10 to 20 whole vanilla beans into a 1 qt jar and pour the rum over it. Close it up and let it sit for 10 days. shake it up daily. You will get a different end flavor depending on what type of vanilla beans you use.
I probably drink more Kentucky Gentlemen than I care to admit, however, only ever mixed. I'd like to try to add some stuff, just don't know about whole bits of blended chocolate or caramel.
I've fixed bad whiskey and rum by dropping in some charred sticks from my pecan tree for a couple of months. I've done it with grouse scotch which was a terrible buy and some rum my son brought back from Jamaica which tasted like sweaty feet soaked in lighter fluid. I've heard that a sonic jewelry cleaner will speed things up.
I actually found that Wicked 87 spirits whiskey on sale at Total Wine and decided to pick it up as well. I went to grab a bottle of Chivas Regal & anything that tickled my fancy. I actually didnt mind it.
You want a real challenge? Try to fix Piehole Pecan Pie. The gross fake pecan smell & taste is 🤮
Ummm... hello!... you are supposed to spank the mint before you put it in the drink!!!!
As an avid canner, I think it's a little crazy to think the rubber gasket contributed anything. I've also had an infinity bottle with a rubber gasket for a year and that stuff was delightful. However, I'll accept that anything is possible.
Who would’ve thought that a snobby drinker would be a picky eater, hmmm
Cyanogenic glycosides are naturally occurring chemicals found in many fruit pits or seeds that can release small amounts of cyanide as the body metabolizes (or processes) them. And according to poison control a small amount causing harm is "exceedingly rare". Effects on Hobbits are not known.
Awsome you guys are experimenting with souvide. Often you need to cook the alcohol off before you souvide with it to get best flavor. You should reach out to RUclips guga on souvide everything. Would be an awsome dry week episodes.
Isn't that how Southern Comfort came into being? Spices and fruit were added to crap whiskey to make it palatable.
Even know i dont drink anymore. And never could get past the burn to find flavor. I still watch these knuckle heads...
I Luv the expressions on Rex's face while blending...
I'd love to see a tribe episode on the worst value for money whiskeys. Not just expensive stuff that's good but not good enough to justify a huge price tag. Like, regular whiskeys that are terrible for the money.
You need to see the scene from the old Henry Fonda movie Mr Roberts where they “make” scotch on a WWII ship. Genius! ruclips.net/video/e4QNBypC9vs/видео.html
You should look into how snaps is made. It's basically what you're doing. But without blender.
Also. You can use a coffee filte to get out solids.
They say running cheap vodka through a Brita filter will make it no different than expensive vodka, does the same work for whiskey?
I think that Daniel is the Adam Savage of the Whiskey Tribe. Or of whiskey in general.
Aw hell, you made me waste a mouthful of Jameson watching this. And by wasted, I mean dripping down the front of my screen.
The best answer is sugar...think soda and cocktails. As far the heated whisky I still think that that are just speeding up oxidation. Maybe you could try comparing the cooked to a real old bottle or see if there is a big difference between a new and half full bottle
Butter & Brown Sugar For Me & Hold the Chicken Strips
I think Dan just doesnt like Fruit...
Fix cheap whiskey= give it to your friend .. and buy better whiskey
I’m surprised they are ok. That many cherry pits broken up in alcohol has a good bit of cyanide leached out.
Pls pour this through a water filter and carbonate it so it actually tastes like vomit and nobody has to drink this, ever
Actual vomit be like 11:29