Whiskey Tangent

Please consider supporting us at https://buymeacoffee.com/whiskeytangent New News: Jim Beam Halts Production in 2026 • Brown-Forman Profits Down Nearly $60 Million • Irish Whiskey Needs to Evolve • WhistlePig Opens Whiskey Row Experience • Whisky Advocate’s Top 20 Whiskeys of 2025 • The Mint That Fights Binge Drinking • Country Star Hospitalized After Wild Trip to L.A. • Drunk Ne'er-do-well Wreaks Havoc in VA Liquor Store New Whiskeys: Barrell Dovetail Toasted • Castle & Key Cask Strength Wheated Bourbon • Castle & Key Extra Old Haitian Rhum Cask Rye • Jack Daniel’s Tanyard Hill Rye • Lost Lantern Scotch Lover’s Collection • Penelope F**k Cancer • Sazerac Rye Full Proof • Wilderness Trail High-Rye Bourbon • Wilderness Trail Wheated Bourbon • Wilderness Trail Rye New Music Credits: Retro News at Nine (Stinger 1) by Steve Oxen and Just Breaking (Softer) by David Fesliyan from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com • News Sting and Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod from https://incompetech.filmmusic.io

Please consider supporting us at https://buymeacoffee.com/whiskeytangent At long last! We’re finally getting to taste possibly the most elusive spirit we’ve ever sought out on an episode that's been a full three years in the making. And while we do that, we also end up tasting two other similar expressions to see how similar they actually are. But the real question is: Can the JD ASM live up to years of fevered anticipation and outsized expectations? Click play to find out! Music Credits: Freedom by Choc Mic McNeil at https://soundcloud.com/chocmic/freedom • Fireflies by Kevin MacLeod at https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html

Please consider supporting us at https://buymeacoffee.com/whiskeytangent Whiskeys: 1792 12 Years Aged Bourbon • 1792 Full Proof Bourbon (Benash Store Pick) • Oppidan Bottled-in-Bond Four Grain Bourbon (South Jersey Bourbon Drinkers Pick) • Bardstown Bourbon Co. Château de Laubade Aramagnac Finished Bourbon • Bardstown Bourbon Co. Foursquare Rum Finished Whiskey • Lagavulin Distiller’s Edition Single Malt Scotch • Bomberger’s Declaration Bourbon • Old Carter Bourbon Batch 11 • Blue Run High Rye Bourbon • Nashtucky Special Release 8-Year Single Barrel Whiskey • Doug’s Infinity Bottle • Nulu Single Barrel Select Wheated Bourbon (New Jersey Bourbon Barrel Club Pick) • Elijah Craig Private Toasted Single Barrel Bourbon (Benash Store Pick) • Frey Ranch Barrel Strength Single Barrel Bourbon (New Jersey Bourbon Barrel Club Pick) • King’s County Single Barrel Bourbon • Obtanium Canadian Light Whiskey • Glenlivet 12 Year Signatory Vintage Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Tangents: We've locked ourselves in Doug’s vault again for another night of high-proof hijinx! • The lowest proof is 96.6 • Ed’s last girlfriend was like the Barton’s 12 Year • We're already breaking the rules with the first whiskey • Doug has minions • Ed curses first • The Vietnamese hoagies will clear our palates • Wait, is this a department store whiskey? • Doug’s wine-drinking wife, Sue, joins us! • Clean up, aisle Ed • Somehow Doug always wins the lottery for expensive bottles • You have to divide all prices by six in front of Sue • Apparently, “Kentucky Fried Chicken” is a tasting note now • Doug did an Infinity Bottle (that Sue wants to sell on eBay) • Doug punishes Scott (and Scott likes it) • Three minutes of giving Benash their flowers • Maybe Doug can convince Freddie Noe to send us the whiskeys he owes us • The Frey Ranch smells like weed • Apparently “Carving a pumpkin and pouring vodka in it” is a tasting note now • Here, feel that cork • Doug trolls us on a blind tasting • The hoagies were a lifeline • Most people have friends, Ed Music Credits: Sleek Panther by Fesliyan Studios at https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

Please consider supporting us at https://buymeacoffee.com/whiskeytangent Whiskeys: The Dead Rabbit Blended Irish Whiskey • Natterjack Batch 1 Single Grain Irish Whiskey • Bushmills 12 Year Single Malt Irish Whiskey • Knappogue Castle 12 Year Single Malt Irish Whiskey • Clonakilty Private Barrel Select Rivesaltes Cask Finished Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey Tangents: Marty and Rachel join us on our first trip back to Ireland in over 3 years! • The 4 types of Irish Whiskey • Our rain- and Mezcal-soaked trip to The Dead Rabbit in NYC • Apparently “wax and pesticide” is a tasting note now • Don’t pith me off! • New from 7-11, the Irish Whiskey Big Gulp • WTF is a Natterjack? • Apparently, “bottom of the pecan pie” is a tasting note now • #minteresting • The frog is so metal, bro • The history of Bushmills (finally!) • Apparently, “sad mushy grape” is a tasting note now • Our non-Mezcal-soaked trip to Molly’s Shebeen in NYC • Go 'Nilla! • WTF is treacle? • Her name is Dickensheets! • WTF is Lemon Piff? • Gas v. soda prices • Marty’s a terrible driver in Ireland • Irish people do a lot of hurling • The Gentile Cut • WTF is Rivesaltes? • The grape must do what • Ed likes to expose his “barrel” to the salt air Music Credits: Whiskey on the Mississippi, Teller of the Tales, Fiddles McGinty, Folk Round, Midnight Tale, Heroes of a Thousand Battles, and The Pyre by Kevin MacLeod from https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html

Please consider supporting us at https://buymeacoffee.com/whiskeytangent Whiskeys: Sazerac Rye • Sazerac Rye 18 Year • Thomas H. Handy Sazerac Rye Tangents: Join us as we taste our way through all three of Buffalo Trace’s Sazerac branded expressions and make one VERY expensive cocktail! • Sazerac QuickStory • Sazerac is also a coffee house and a company • Remember when Baby Saz won The Ocho? • The clove Necco wafer returns! • You can’t predict what water will do • Apparently “cherry bubblegum” is a tasting note now • Baby Saz doot doot doot doot doot • We got a bunch of 5 year olds! • Scott gets a little weird • Stick that whiskey up your a$$! • Ed’s spittin’ facts • Scott threatens Ed with Malört • Best. Sazerac. Ever. • Some people be bougie • #cheapbastards • Scott’s like Van Gogh • Ed used to be invited to the shore (sad trombone) • Which Sazerac is best? Music Credits: Whiskey on the Mississippi, Parisian, French Cafe, Feelin’ Good, Five Card Shuffle, and Onion Capers by Kevin MacLeod from https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html