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"Evan Williams Egg Nog; Christmas Gift Packs"

• Matt Sommerfield & Phil Stokes • Season 1 • Episode 46

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What if your holiday drink could be both festive and boozy? Join us, Matt and Phil, as we embrace the holiday spirit in our Christmas sweaters while putting Evan Williams bourbon-infused eggnog to the test. With only $15 needed for a bottle, we laugh our way through live streaming antics and ponder the rich, Southern tradition of this holiday classic. As we raise our glasses, we invite you to feel the warmth and humor of this seasonal delight.
 
 Our enthusiasm doesn't stop there; unwrap the magic of whiskey gift sets with us, as we discover unique packaging from brands like Maker's Mark and reminisce about past favorites like Bullet's highball Yeti set. There's joy in every unboxing, along with a few laughs over Crate & Barrel's pricing. From impromptu tasting sessions to the delightful nuances of weeded bourbon, these gift sets offer excellent value and a festive twist to holiday shopping.
 
 We're not done yet! Dive into the aroma of cinnamon as we unbox a Larceny bourbon package, complete with a leather-wrapped rocks glass. Engage in our lively banter about whiskey recipes and personal favorites like the Maker's Mark Rosemary Maple Sour. As we humorously navigate the intricacies of whiskey tasting and cocktail crafting, we share our gratitude for friendship and the festive season, rounding it all off with plans for more holiday cheers and a nod to the classic Manhattan.

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Speaker 1:

It's beginning. Hello, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas or Sithmas it is. You like my sweater? Yeah, I do, I really do. Let's see yours. Yeah, this is this. Says my Xmas spirit is bourbon. Oh, nice, I like it.

Speaker 1:

Welcome to Whiskey Bits with Matt and Phil, where we sip on everyday whiskeys and find the funny in our everyday lives. Merry Christmas Phil, merry Christmas Matt. What did you make for us? I'm so excited about this one. Yeah, you know what? We're simultaneously live streaming and I don't know that anyone's going to watch, but in case they are, yeah, what I made is what did you make?

Speaker 1:

This is eggnog. I love eggnog. It's a boothy eggnog. It's a boothy. It's a Boothy eggnog. It's a Boothy. It's a Boozy, boothy or like Boozy. No, I would say it's Boozy, more than Boozy, although we do have whipped cream with cinnamon and a cinnamon stick, like it's very pretty. Ooh, look at that. It's very pretty, look at that. So, merry Christmas Matthew, merry Christmas Phillip. Wow, wow, dude.

Speaker 1:

I don't even know if I've really had eggnog with actual alcohol in it. I think I have. Okay, I don't know if I've had it like that. Good, no, yeah, oh, we can't even see my face. That's okay, nobody cares, nobody's watching. Anyway, I could turn it to the side. I can see your face. That's your face. I'll go like this, alright.

Speaker 1:

So this is Evan Williams eggnog, made with Kentucky straight bourbon, whiskey, blended whiskey, rum and brandy. I like it. This is only 30 proof, but it's ready to serve. Chill and enjoy. Well, because it's got the nog. Yeah, rich and smooth, ready to serve.

Speaker 1:

Original southern eggnog From the old Evan Williams distillery in Bardstown, kentucky Okay, a Southern holiday tradition, made even better with Evan Williams bourbon. Ooh, love it. Shake well, did you shake it well? Yeah, refrigerate it after opening. I did that as well. You did refrigerate it after you opened it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, very good, this is a bottle kill. Yeah, we crushed this one.

Speaker 1:

I had like three of these the other day, or maybe three bottles. One bottle, oh, I, these two glasses were what finished off the bottle. Yeah, so you had three of these two glasses. That doesn't make any sense. Oh, it's so good, it is so good, it's very tasty. It's very, very tasty. Um, obviously you can.

Speaker 1:

You could add your own egg or your own, uh, bourbon or whiskey, whatever you wanted to, to an eggnog and, you know, do something similar. But I mean, why not just buy the bottle for why not 15 bucks? Just buy the bottle and away you go. It's Evan Williams eggnog. It's so good, it's good. Right, I can't Do you have your phone on you, no, but what we can see here is that we are live and Amy is the only person.

Speaker 1:

Hi Amy it and Amy is the only person that Hi Amy is commenting. It's great to see you. Oh, that's good For those of you listening. We are live on Instagram today. We are live on Instagram For this show just because we thought, eh what the heck, why not Right? Why not Merry Christmas? Merry Christmas, listeners. Why not go live?

Speaker 1:

You know, watchers, how many days for the live, how many days before christmas are we 15? It's okay, but but for the listeners, this is coming out just a couple days before christmas. Before christmas, yeah, because what is it? Let's see, it's a couple days before christmas, a couple days before christmas. I don't want. It's the day before christmas eve, oh, okay, so that's a couple days before christmas, yeah.

Speaker 1:

So what I wanted to talk about today? Oh, did you bring presents? I did. I brought some gift boxes, some gift, some gift boxes. So what's a really, what's really cool about this time of the year is bourbon companies, whiskey companies, release these gift packages, these gift boxes, and if you're watching on Instagram Live, you'll see these and you can head out to your local establishment and find these things. But what's really neat is these places. Obviously they sell their bourbon all year round, but what's kind of fun is they will package for the same price, or maybe a dollar more, or not very much more, if at all. They'll package it with something sort of special.

Speaker 1:

So for me, you know what's weird? We've never done Maker's Mark, we haven't Mm-mm. And there's a recipe on the back, mm-hmm, rosemary maple sour. What? Yeah, oh my gosh. It says spread some cheers. So you have to spread cheers. If you buy that box, you have to spread cheers. Now, that's true, okay, okay, and I'll read out what's on the back of this.

Speaker 1:

We'll kind of do a little review. If Amy makes sure he's spreading cheers, okay, please, we'll open this up and we'll kind of go through. You don't have to say, you don't have to narrate what you're gonna do, just do it. Well, just do just. But then we have another one that we're gonna do. Okay, just relax, we're gonna open this one up. Can you let the? Can you let the process just happen? Okay, so in this one we get a full bottle, 750 milliliters.

Speaker 1:

This is, this is yeah, this is maker's mark. I don't think we've done any maker's mark stuff I would have. I would have remembered the wax. Yeah, this is kind of a. So Maker's Mark is a Whiskey. It's a whiskey, but it's a weeded bourbon. Weeted. It ends up being a little bit more weeded. So I think we could probably crack this open and try it.

Speaker 1:

But what does it come with? Are we going to do that For $23. Do you want to? Yeah, look, we've got the glasses. Okay, it's christmas. I don't know what did you plan? We could do that. The other one too. Yeah, we sure could. We're not even gonna know how to turn the camera off at the end of this completely.

Speaker 1:

So really cool glass that, like rocks glasses, these come in and they've got the. They've got the s4 maker's mark label on there or logo on there. I love it. So, yeah, very cool. And this one comes with two glasses one for you and one for a friend. Oh, or, at least you could one for you, yeah, one or one for yourself and another one for yourself Clean, clean. Well, the whiskey going in there is going to make it clean, I think too. Oh, yeah, for sure, you know the alcohol kills, so it's kind of fun that they do these. Now.

Speaker 1:

A couple years ago, maybe my favorite find was Bullet. Bullet did a. No, I named my dog Bullet after the whiskey. Really, yeah, that's so funny. I feel like you we're just going to throw this. Hey-oh, the crew will take care of it. Yeah, get on that guys. Guys, come on, you're slacking, I mean you're fired, you're all fired, thank you, and you're rehired, okay, I mean, you're fired, you're all fired, thank you, and you're rehired, okay, because we need you. So Bullet did this one. They did 350, 350s, so it was a full 750 of whiskey.

Speaker 1:

But they did a rye oh, that's a good idea and a bourbon, and with it came a highball, yeti. Oh yeah, wow, a Yeti, that was a highball. Oh yeah, wow, the a yeti, that was a high ball. And so you're, you're talking, those things are 25 bucks, so to buy, to be able to buy two half bottles of whiskey, if you will. So a bottle of whiskey, right, for 35 dollars and get a yeti. It was well worth it.

Speaker 1:

Well, same thing with this. Like you know how much glassware is, I mean at creighton barrel, this would be like a thousand dollars. Yeah, this, this single glass, right, $1,000? Yes, wait, crate Barrel. Did you hear what I said? Crate Barrel? Do people even shop at Crate Barrel anymore? Yeah, they have whole stores. You know that. Yeah, you can go in. You're inside of the brand, right, exactly. Yeah, here, let me show you guys. So we're going to do a tasting right here. It's like a special episode of the Maker's Mark, Okay, so what's interesting is when we get to the next one.

Speaker 1:

This is going to be a really interesting little taste test. Yeah, should I take a taste test of the eggnog first or leave it be and let's get to this? No, no, no, is that egg? You know what that eggnog is already. I just don't know if it would ruin it. It's, it's gonna be fine. First of all, did you say fine, it's gonna be fine, fine, fine, okay. Maker's mark. Out of the maker's mark glass. Merry christmas, matt. Merry christmas phil. Let's cheers santa cla Claus is coming to town. Sure is so. Makers Mark, we've never really done this one Again. It's higher in the wheat area.

Speaker 1:

It's definitely one of the most common whiskeys that's out there. You're a common whiskey. I'm sorry, you know what? That was insensitive, it's okay. It's's okay, it's fine, it's fine.

Speaker 1:

So on the nose it's very, very sweet. It's very sweet. Hold on it smells of red wax. No, I'm kidding that's. Stop sniffing the bottle, phil. Oh, sorry, that's the cap. It's because I'm eating the cap.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you can't use. I'm supposed to do that. Um, yeah, you know what's the proof on this? This is 90. Okay, yeah, it's a 90, that that nose is like a 90. I mean it does not kill you on the nose. Yeah, it's actually kind of nice because it's kind of just enough. I can can literally feel it like kind of cleaning my, like cleansing my. I had a little bit of a stuffed nose. Yeah, not anymore. I mean it's kind of like getting up there. Yeah, it's like just enough. Yeah, so it's got a little bit of a.

Speaker 1:

It's healthy, it's a cold remedy. It's healthy for you. It is healthy. Yeah, it's grains. There's corn in there, there's wheat, wheat and like there's there's wheat, corn and wheat corn. There's barley, there's liquid, which means there's probably water in there. It's like all of your seven grains, yeah, all the grains. You can pour milk in it. Eggnog, you pour this in the egg. You could pour milk in it. What if we poured the dad joke loading. No, no, let's taste it. Okay, ready, yep, as he smells it.

Speaker 1:

Sorry, I just looked at your gullet. Did you did my gullet? I saw the gullet. Is that what it's called the gusset? Oh, sorry, are you checking my? My gullet is up here, I think I. I'm like why are you sorry? I just smacked my mic, your gusset, my. Look at it in my jeans. Yeah, I saw it. I was like, wow, that's a big gusset. Yeah, well. And then I thought I need to get pants with a gusset. You really do, but I don't have pants with a gusset. Well, but you clearly have pants with the gusset. Yeah, I call it a gullet, though get at your gullet.

Speaker 1:

Amy left, I'm pretty sure she's. I would leave after that like never. What are these guys? This is not even watching. Did you tag me? No, I don't know how. It's fine. What do you think, though? It's actually really good.

Speaker 1:

So what I was getting to was I got like I don't know why in my head I got gobstopper. Yeah, I don't know why either. Well, there's a real candy sweetness on the very first hit. Yeah, I can, I could see that it's just, it's kind of there, it's not I wouldn't say it's as subtle, as subtle, but it's like, and then it kind of goes away. But yeah, yeah, there's I don't know, there's some sort of just like a candied something, sure Candied sweetness to it and I think, and maybe it's a specific flavor, like orange maybe. Um, that I'm getting a little citrusy, yeah, citrus, maybe that's why because gobstoppers tend to be citrusy, they're definitely a hard candy, they're, they're definitely stop the gob, you know, I mean they'll stop that gob.

Speaker 1:

What do you think? What are you getting Besides a Buzz Lightyear, my favorite character in Toy Story? That's how you get around algorithms. Well, my Christmas spirit is bourbon. Your Christmas spirit is bourbon. No, you know what? I'm actually pleasantly surprised.

Speaker 1:

This is definitely better than I thought it would be. Yeah, I had zero expectation, I didn't even. Yeah, I mean, there's nothing special about this bottle. It smells good. There's nothing. I mean this is Maker's Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon, handmade since 1953. So they're not that old, but they're old to us. But they're not. I mean, this is that old but they're old, old to us. But like they're not like one of the originals, right, but you know, this is a, this is a. Really, it's really good, you know it's.

Speaker 1:

It's, it's kind of a really really common whiskey. So yeah, um, you know, I I don't know that I would necessarily say that it's a daily type like sipper, like I wouldn't, I wouldn't go to this one and be like, hey guys, have you tried this? This is really special, but why is it? It's not to me, because it doesn't, it doesn't have as much complexity, correct, yeah, it's, it's kind of a, it's kind of a run of the mill. It has a thing, it has a thing. I would say, though, to me, though, it has a thing, it has a thing that's a little different than some of the other. You know what I mean. Like in a way, that's like okay, it has a little more than a thing. Yeah, it's got a thing, but it's got a little more than a thing. It's got like a it's. You know it's. It's got something special. It's sweet, it's sweet.

Speaker 1:

You know, I think there's probably five or six bourbons that I would go to before I went to this one, but at the same time, I would love to have this on the shelf for somebody who would come in and be like I'd love to. You got makers, yeah, perfect, yeah, you know what. Or hey, you know what. Like, can you make me a Jack and Coke? No, let me, I'll get you a Makers and Coke, yes, you know. Yes, something like that. This is a step up. Yeah, I have. I have cherry. Or hey, I want to do an old fashioned. Or I want to do a Manhattan or New Year's. That would be awesome. That's a great idea. I can't believe you just thought of that.

Speaker 1:

Do you know what else we should do? Please don't say what I think you're going to say. I do not want to dress up. Yes, we're doing it. It's as if we've read each other's minds. I want you in a grey suit, you're lucky. I want you in a gray suit, you're lucky. I want you in a gray suit.

Speaker 1:

Black shirt Don't say black pinstripe. If you say black, skinny tie, black, no, no tie. Okay, no tie. I can do no tie because none of my shirts button up here, because my neck is too muscular and strong, yeah, no, that's exactly what I was thinking. Like, you're a regular Mike Tyson. Hey, man, just back off. Okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 1:

I have never worn a bow tie. Should I date you? I have a bow tie. You can wear it. I'm doing it. Boom, it's actually an Italian bow tie. Okay, you should wear it.

Speaker 1:

Okay, this is not staged at all. I love it. I think that it's real. Will you show us about it please? Okay, great, I love ruining the tricks you try to do. Hold on, I don't know. I have cherry Coke in the fridge. See, this would be great with cherry Coke and ice, like.

Speaker 1:

I absolutely believe that, 100% believe that I don't have anything going on. None of my sales calls have returned. I don't know if you've been listening. Oh, they could be watching. I don't have a job.

Speaker 1:

Wait, amy said something. We're going to do this. We're going to go up and see what she said. Hold on, oh ow, I can read it from here, you can. It says nice, they don't make gobstoppers anymore. What? Hold on a second. Why don't you look that up on your phone? That is my phone. I know Amy said they don't make gobstoppers anymore. They're her favorite. Yeah, yeah, I don't know about that. We'll have to fact check that. Will you fact check your wife please? No, I think she should fact check herself. Fact check yourself, amy. She probably already did.

Speaker 1:

Oh, okay, yeah, it's true, bummer, that sucks, which is ironic because the gobstopper you have to suck on it. Sorry, yeah, joke it. Gobstopper, you have to suck on it in order to sorry, okay, dad, joke. Um, it's very good, I like. Yeah, it ends up being kind of we have another one, we have another one, okay, should we get into that one? Okay, fine, I'm gonna cleanse my palate here with the egg. I was just about to say reset, reset with the egg. Merry christmas again, phil.

Speaker 1:

You know the cinnamon stick smells so good. Oh, you know what I that that is. Oh, my goodness, I might have to go get cinnamon sticks and make the like. Just, I might have to go get cinnamon sticks and wear them all over my body. They make like cinnamon cologne. They do. Yeah, I'm just gonna, I think I'm just gonna throw it on myself. You'll be irresistible. People will be like I feel like I want to have you in my coffee and I'll be like I know I want to have me in my coffee too, and sometimes I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me show you what I brought. Okay, I didn't bring this, you did. What am I holding? More wheat, smoother sips, paper plane, kentucky meal.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so this is larceny. Look at this, look at that. We're going to open this up and show this is I'm actually really, I'm really pumped about this. Uh-oh, somebody's on. Who is it? Who is it? I can't see. I'm so blind. We should have moved that closer, yeah, but then we wouldn't be able to see ourselves. I'll open this. I'm going to go look. Okay, okay, so this is Larceny. What's up? Allie, it's Allie, hi Allie, yes, hi Allie. She has come. All right, this is it. This is what you've been waiting for. All right, so I am live.

Speaker 1:

This comes from Larceny. Yeah, it does this from larceny that. Yeah, this comes from larceny, okay, again. So the the maker's mark. I think that was like 22 bucks, 23 bucks, the whole thing, with the whole thing. Yeah, special, now normally the bottle. I mean, you know you're looking at 20 glass, 20, 20 or so dollars, 20, 23 dollars, something like that. So you're, you're in a pretty decent deal to grab the glassware. It's not $1,000 worth of glass, but it's good, okay, it's good, okay. So that was a lot of time. Oh, you know what we didn't do before we opened this? We didn't read the recipe on the back of the Maker's Mark one, we'll do that at the end. Yeah, whatever. Okay, it is a weeded bourbon. We haven't done any larceny.

Speaker 1:

This is a favorite of a lot of friends that I have as well. So this comes as a Clayton and Kroom leather wrapped. Leather wrapped that's the way I like them Rocks glass. Now, look at this thing, look at this thing. I have one of these. That is nice. It is really nice. I'll show it to this camera. That's like. That is nice. It is really nice. I'll show it to this camera. That's like Show it to this camera. Look at Allie, look at that. Look at that. Can you see it? It's like a cuff. It's like a fisty cuff. It's a rocks glass and you can pull the leather off to wash it. Don't ever wash the leather off. No, you gotta wash it. The glass, yeah, but you put that on there when in Rome, when in Rome, just saying statements. So the reason that this one attracted me was is I have an Eagle Rare glass wrapped in leather, just like this.

Speaker 1:

Oh well, aren't we just so fancy that I picked up at the Buffalo Trace Distillery when I was down there last a couple of Novembers ago, okay, when I went down there A couple of Novembers ago. Okay, when I went down there A couple of Novembers ago, we're going to crack this one open, crack it. So this is a small batch, crack it. Should I just Crew you? Pick that up? Okay, that's inappropriate. Pick it up. Okay. So this is small batch.

Speaker 1:

92 proof weeded bourbon mash bill. Okay, john E Fitz. Weeded bourbon mash bill. Okay, john e fitzgerald larceny, established 1878. Uh, this one comes out of kentucky, john larceny.

Speaker 1:

Oh my gosh, I don't even know what to do. Okay, let's just get into this one. So 94 proof. Oh my gosh, I don't even know what to do. Okay, let's just get into this one. So 94 proof. Couldn't have done that if I tried. You just tossed it into your eggnog. Nah, it'll be fine. Oh, that was a nice pop, that's a good pop.

Speaker 1:

Did you guys hear that, listeners? Did you hear that? Basically, what it was. So this one only came with one glass. Uh-oh, sucker, we're going to have to share. We're going to have to share. I have more glasses, but this is more fun.

Speaker 1:

Dude, you got one over there. No, really, where is it? I forgot. Where's the Santa hat? Oh, I left them upstairs. You want to wear this one? That one's not as real. I left them upstairs. You want to wear this one? That one's not as real. You can say what you want to say, but when you say it only time, okay, go ahead. Ellie said something else. Hold on, well, while you're up, why don't you grab that glass? She said beautiful, thank you. While you're up, you should't you grab that glass. She said beautiful, thank you. While you're up, you should grab the glass. Okay, so this is the Larceny bourbon. Okay, we're going to.

Speaker 1:

I don't know if it's the leather glass or the Leather glass. Well, yeah, there's leather on the glass. You want to sit in there? Put some leather on this, okay, well, well, that's weird. That was a weird way of of asking for a drink of a little bit bigger.

Speaker 1:

Okay, does it have a leathery smell to you or no? Um, no, but let's ask. Let's ask the leathery. Oh, she loves the concept of the leather over the cup. It is a, it is a neat. It is a neat concept. A lot of football players feel the same way, do they? Yeah, they love the leather over the cup, oh, okay, okay, I need to smell it on your glass, because all I smell is leather. And I'm gonna smell your glass and we'll see if the get the leather. Oh yeah, no, you're smelling leather. Yeah for sure you're not just smelling. Let your. The leather has permeated the.

Speaker 1:

The glass, yeah, well, as to be expected, it is a rocks glass. So you know, it would be nice. I think that would probably insulate the rocks a little bit and keep it from getting too cold, but what? But what do you think on the taste? It's got a little bit of a hit, a little bit of a punch. It's like you had a plan but you got punched in the face, right?

Speaker 1:

Oh, you should use that a lot for the next episode. Are we back to Mike Tyson? Are we going to Mike Tyson for the first time? No, you, we did say it earlier in this episode. We should talk about Mike Tyson in the next one, though I will make sure you do remember that. Use your memory powers and remember that. I mean, I think that's going to be like if I, I think that's going to be a theme. I think there's going to be a theme. I think there's going to be a theme.

Speaker 1:

This is good, it's very good, this is a lot. Okay, side by side, I prefer the Larson, oh well. Yes, this is more sophisticated than the makers. But you can't say sophisticated until you're wearing a suit. Okay, fine, I will not. The next time I say sophisticated will be when I'm wearing a suit.

Speaker 1:

But this is, this is different, in a way that is a little more high end. Yeah, like this is one where I don't know, I mean, I could put it in a mixed drink, but it'd be like the top tier mixed I you know. Yeah, like I would sip this. Yeah, but if I ran out of stuff to me and I'm like I really need a old-fashioned or a manhattan, I would, I would, I would use it, but but this would be a sipper. Yeah, this is really, this is really tasty.

Speaker 1:

Um, I'm, I'm really a big fan. I I've tried larceny before. I don't know if I've ever had them. I have. I've tried this before on some recommendations from some friends. Wow, we're so fancy, but um, no, it's sophisticated, but yeah, I can't say it. Okay, uh, I've tried this on on a um, on a recommendation from a friend. I wasn't a big fan the first time of the friend. I wasn't a big fan of the whiskey. Oh, okay, um, but because it was so bad, I then became not a fan of the friend right, you're like, dude, this is what you're recommending. No, I'm kidding, this was a, this was a, this, this and uh, I was wrong the first time I was wrong.

Speaker 1:

My pal has changed, for sure I've had. Your pal has changed my palate. Palate has changed my and my pals and your pals like, well, I'm here and he's not. I'm just kidding. No, I'm here and he's not. I'm just kidding. No, I'm still friends with him. He's still a good guy. No, he's an awesome guy. And there's multiple people who are like, really, I feel like he's a bad person. No, no, no, but I really I'm enjoying this.

Speaker 1:

And it's not just the Maker's Mark and the eggnog speaking, it's the cameras and the lights and the crew. Get back to work. I mean, look, how are we supposed to do this show if our crew, you left this. What did I do? Well, I'm sorry, it's not me, it's the crew. That's what I'm talking to you. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go switch cameras because I feel like we have a lot more to talk about. I'm going to go switch the cameras. We're going to keep rolling, but I've got to do the crew's job Because they're not doing it, and I'll check on the comments, because there's comments on the live. So hold on here. No, keep going. You want me to talk through the camera? Yeah, it's fine, who cares? Nobody cares. We're going back to the Maker's Mark. So this one. So this sounds really interesting.

Speaker 1:

The Maker's Mark Rosemary Maple Sour. So have you had a whiskey sour before? Yes, okay, so this is one and a half parts Maker's Mark, three quarter part fresh lemon juice, one half part maple syrup. Do you have any of this stuff? We can make this drink. I definitely wait. What is it? Lemon juice, maple syrup? Yep, a sprig of fresh rosemary, oh, yeah, in the garden. Okay, and do you have another fresh rosemary sprig and a lemon slice for a garnish? I don't know if I have a lemon slice, but we could go to the store. Okay, I think, for I do not know the time this, this, I mean a rosemary maple, like I'm trying to think of the, the flavors there. That's really interesting. Rosemary and maple is not something you typically see together. Yeah, the rosemary very fragrant, amy says.

Speaker 1:

Amy commented on the live, so we're live streaming this for those of you just listening. Yeah, just if you've listened so far and you haven't paid attention to 39 to 29 minutes of this, like if you've just joined us, we're live, we're live streaming. This am Amy says, not if you're live, but hey, podcast listener, if you're just joining us 29 minutes in, we are live streaming. How would they even do that? They'd have to be like they won't. That's why I'm making fun of you. That would be like skipping to the end of the episode. They're like, let's get this over with.

Speaker 1:

What's next week? All I want to hear is someone say next time, whiskey bits. Remember your odds, I'm even correct. So the odd episodes, that's you, amy said, tell us you have, tell us you have add. Without telling us you have add. I'm offended, but it's also true. I don't have add. I got tested. I don't have. I probably have something. Okay, maybe a goiter. You ready, you ready for your goiter? I think you've got a nevis. I did have a nevis and the nevis is gone.

Speaker 1:

Okay, here's how you prepare the Baker's Mark Rosemary Maple Syrup. Smack one sprig of rosemary between the palm of your hand Is that what it says? And activate its aroma. Place in a shaker. We're Mr Miyagi in this, mother. That's how you do. That's how you smell whiskey. That is how you smell whiskey. I did that the other day. I spilled a little on my hand and I was like, alright, isn't it great, I'm gonna rub it in. It actually was really good. It's really cool, isn't it? I can't stop sniffing my fingers.

Speaker 1:

Add remaining ingredients and shake with ice. So the remaining ingredients would be maker's mark bourbon, fresh lemon juice and maple syrup. Strain into an ice flake filled glass. Okay, garnish with lemon slice and a fresh rosemary. It's a recipe.

Speaker 1:

It's going to tell you what to do, okay, okay, merry christmas. That sounds fantastic. It does sound good. Well, rosemary, they're like. We wanted to taste like a christmas tree. Okay, I get it. That makes sense. Thanks a lot. But like the maple, the maple syrup is gonna taste like a christmas tree as well. That's true. The sap of a christmas tree is like. They're like oh, it's like a christmas tree drink. I instantly want to try this. We're gonna have to make it, mark. If your name was, that would have been really good. I'd be like we're going to have to make her Mark. Do you think that's how they got the name? The guy was Mark and they're like hey, mark, we're going to have to make her. I think that it's. The maker wanted to put a mark on it and did that. That makes more sense, and so now it's Okay.

Speaker 1:

So here is Now Larceny. We decided that this was the better of the two whiskeys, agreed, mm-hmm. Or is it just different that I'm a little concerned about the bear. I feel like, okay, listen, add, are we sure that? Yeah, the Larceny tastes better, but the bear has the bottle top Stuffed up, kind of like in a Right and it's like in a hard spot. All right, so the Larceny bourbon actually offers two recipes. So not only did it taste better than the Maker's Mark, it gave us more value, that's true. And I have copper mugs. You know what? We'll just try them all. Okay, so we have copper mugs.

Speaker 1:

You would have had to see the second recipe that I'm going to read for your foreshadowing. No, I did see it before, okay, so the first one I'm going to read to you. I'll start with the Kentucky Mule. It's a Scottish Mule. Is that what it is? It's a Kentucky Mule, okay.

Speaker 1:

Okay, it's two ounces of Larceny bourbon. Hey, we have that. Three ounces of ginger beer, I don't have that. One half ounce lime juice and one half ounce of simple syrup. So it's a Moscow mule, but it's a Kentucky mule because you put whiskey in it, okay, instead of vodka. That's not as creative. So you do all that stuff and then you drink it. Do all the things, you just put it all together and stir it up and then you drink it. Yeah, so it's a drink you drink. It's a drink you drink, okay, all right. Okay, I mean, this one's a little bit more, I'll go with it. This one sounds a little bit more interesting. Less To me, okay, I think when you talk about a Christmas gift box, maker's Mark gave us a very aromatic.

Speaker 1:

Okay, it's so aromatic. Here's the other one Of all the aromatics, it's the most aromatic. I would agree with that. Okay, that's Jewish Trump. I would agree with that. Who is that? Maybe Barack Obama? I would agree with that. Let me be clear. If you were going to tell me that, I would agree with that, yeah, be clear. If you were going to tell me that, I'd say I would agree with that. Yeah, all right, now I get down. Okay, reset, okay, paper plane.

Speaker 1:

Three quarters of an ounce of Larceny bourbon. We have that. We have that. Okay, I guarantee you don't have this, try me. Which is three quarters of an ounce of sweet orange aperitivo, aperitivo? Yeah, I do. Actually, do you really? I don't have orange aperitivo, I have regular aperitivo. Shut up, I think so. Or is it Aperol? There's Aperol and Apertivo. It's Apertivo. Yeah, okay, I have one of those. What do you have the other one, aperol, amaro? No, aperol, aperol. Yeah, that's different. Three quarters of an ounce of Amaro what the fuck is that? And then three quarters of an ounce of fresh lemon juice. Combine all the ingredients in the shaker, add ice and shake until chilled. Strain the cocktail into a coupe glass or a cocktail glass.

Speaker 1:

Cocktails Garnish with a lemon peel or a paper plane, An actual paper plane, that is just. That's called the paper plane. They could have called it anything. At that point they were like ah, what do we call it? I don't know. All right, I give, I give that's.

Speaker 1:

If we were to rate these by five stars I don't even know why, why I would do that, but I would say that I would say that the large so random. I think we'll talk about that later, because I want to get to the bottom of the stars comment. Let's talk about stars later. But the Larceny bourbon. I would say better bourbon, worse options.

Speaker 1:

When it came to the recipes, like, did you phone it in? A Kentucky mule is a very common thing. A paper plane this is a common thing. My kids make it all the time. It's a lot of stuff. I saw a paper plane on the floor the other day at a bottle stand.

Speaker 1:

But if we're talking unique New York, we're looking at spreading some cheer. We're going to do the Maker's Mark Rosemary Maple Sour. We're going to do that, yeah. So let me get this straight. We have to take a picture of a Manhattan, which means we're going to pour a drink and make it for our future episode, because we take pictures way ahead of time. And then we're also going to do I'm sorry, I'm just gathering all my whiskey yes, hold on, let me just. Okay. Then we're also Cheers, cheers. Yeah, there we go. Also going to do the what is that called? Schleppe, leppe, ding dong. We're going to do the rosemary, that one Rosemary maple, the rosemary maple sour.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, don't just you just keep repeating what I'm saying. If I keep repeating what you're saying, should I just keep repeating what you're saying? Yeah, you should. I'm really upset. I don't have the Santa hat. That was the one piece of this puzzle.

Speaker 1:

That is some skill, man handling an eggnog whilst drinking a whiskey. I gotta tell you, like just sip by sip, back to back, sips, right, isn't it not good? It's not good, it's not as good. Well, you mean, that's not as good. Hold on. Not as close, not even close. Sorry, shouldn't have inhaled Too deep of an inhale. Yeah, it's, the larceny has a little more depth. I would say, yeah, I'm a big fan of the larceny.

Speaker 1:

And look, I think if we were going to say our whiskey bits stamp, stamp of approval, it definitely goes with that larceny. We can do that. Are you ready for this? Yes, it's your bottle, right. Yeah, okay, hold on, are you ready? I'm ready. But first you haven't left this many times in an episode that I can remember we have episode that I can remember we have Amy says Adderall. Amy has suggested I take Adderall.

Speaker 1:

We have our Whiskey Bits stamps of approval here, an actual sticker. Would you like to put it on the bottle? Well, I didn't know. Know, would you see how good the, how easy these come off? I would say if you wanted to put this on the back right here, uh-huh, there's a nice piece of glass right there. Oh, look at that piece where that would fit. Yeah, really, really well. You could also do the side if you wanted. Oh, you could do the side. But I would say, right here on the back, this is like a we're going to put the stamp of approval.

Speaker 1:

It's like a tramp stamp of approval. You say tramp stamp, live on Instagram. Well, I just did so. Sue me, don't, actually, because I couldn't afford the lawyer. It's going to look so good, dude, and I didn't even think about it. But look at the way the colors look. That's really cool. That is actually really nice. That's really neat. Can you show that to our Instagram followers? Yeah, so it actually goes really well. The colors go well with that Larceny brand. I think we should talk to Larceny about it. We should tell them Anyway, check this out, right there, ski beds stamp over. Now it's backwards, backwards on here. I'm glad amy's watching. What else is she got? I'm glad she's watching. Okay, I, this looks really cool, I think. I think when next year, if we were to make any plans, I think next year we should try to make it down to Larceny. We should bring this. We should show them how well it fits, yes, and that it received the WhiskeyBits stamp of approval.

Speaker 1:

Congratulations, you've won an award. You've won a major award. It's a major award. Ham Hal, you said you want it. Yeah, mind power, smee, mind power. It's a major award. Christmas story it could be anything, right Major. Look at how major this is. You know what? It could be a bowling alley. There could be anything in there. How are they going to pack a bowling alley in there? There could there could be. There could be anything. How are they gonna pack a bowling alley in there? That could be a deed to a bowling alley. The deed great, great movie. I don't expect him to bring the whole great, uh, great great whiskey. I really enjoyed. I really enjoyed that one. I'm really glad we tried the the maker's mark I.

Speaker 1:

This really kind of falls into a like I'm sorry, guys, this does not get our stamp of approval. I know they have a lot of other varietals that are out there that are available. There's some, there's some cellar age stuff that I know is really good. I think their their standard run of the mill stuff is tasty but really kind of falls into our mixer. It's a mixer on your shell mixer.

Speaker 1:

I wouldn't. I would not put this one. I would not say that you absolutely have to have this one. I think if you're looking for something that you have to have, that's 23 available all the time and right now, throw this larceny because it's in the gift pack. And right now on the gift pack you would get this beautiful leather wrapped glass. It's nice.

Speaker 1:

Um, it does add a little bit of fung's way, oh, smell and taste to leather. The drink is very leathery. I think it's a nice little insulated piece and, and certainly it is a nice looking glass. It's sitting out by the fire. It gives you something to hold on to. Um, I, I mean, I love it. Um, I love the, I love it. I just, I, just, I love this class. Do you love? I love? What can I say? I love this class, I love this class. Michael's god, oh, my goodness.

Speaker 1:

Um, you know, it is interesting mixing the elements of leather, and is that an element? Leather's not an element? I'm gonna say leather should be an element. Let's move it up. Is the element table? I think we move it up to element status, because what is it? What is the height? Is it on the periodic table? It should be le. I think leather. Okay, yeah, I think le already has. I think that's lead? Actually no, lead is PB, because that makes sense. Can we talk about the periodic table? I mean really? I mean, who is nicknaming the elements? Who is naming these? Who is abbreviating lead, l-e-a-d as P-B? It don't make no sense. But what does make sense is sipping the eggnog through a cinnamon stick straw.

Speaker 1:

Do it, you won't do it. There's a lot of people out here saying that you won't do it. There's a lot of people and saying that you won't do it. There's a lot of people and by a lot I mean of all the people, of all the Amy's watching the live. I like this. They go. It's very good eggnog. It's very good eggnog. That was the most obnoxious. That was the most obnoxious and you've smacked your lips so many times. That was probably the most obnoxious sound that we've ever had on this podcast. I'm going to increase the dBs in that section. That did not work. No, I didn't think it would. You would think it would work, but it does not.

Speaker 1:

I realize that it is a complete waste of a cinnamon stick, but I'm not sure. I'm not sure that I will drink another eggnog without a cinnamon stick sticking out of it. Here's the thing the smell, the aroma, just the aroma alone. Yeah, when's the last time you used a cinnamon stick for anything? Ever, nobody uses them. I had to open your obnoxiously large jar of cinnamon sticks. Do you need two? You have 70. I know you guys bought a cinnamon stick. I will have those for my grandkids when their kids are alive. That'll be a hand-me-down for the grandkids.

Speaker 1:

What are you going to do with this when we're done? You're going to throw it away, right? I think I might frame it. I don't know what are you going to do with this when we're done? You're going to throw it away, right? I think I might frame it. I don't know, what do you do with the cinnamon stick? You frame it. No, that's not what you do with cinnamon sticks. It does this weird thing where it unfolds and you're like oh, that's not how you're supposed to be, you got to be rolled up. Really, it unfolds, yeah. When it gets wet, yeah, well, yeah, okay, it releases itself really from its burden. I have rolled up like a doobie. I have not. I do not have any experience with cinnamon sticks, it's just. This is the first time I've ever even touched one.

Speaker 1:

They are intimidating. Let me, there's one thing I know about cinnamon sticks is they're extremely intimidating. They will to look at and to manhandle. And you do not want to manhandle no, you don't. You don't want to be in the back side of a cinnamon stick. I'll tell you that that is, uh, that's a dangerous place to be.

Speaker 1:

Let me tell you, I've got stories I could tell you. I won't because I don't remember them, but they're there. Yeah, the stories exist. I I don't know what they are, but they're there, they're there. Do not sip out of that. I try, I could. I can't, it doesn't work.

Speaker 1:

The is that the best, uh, glass of eggnog you've ever had? It actually really is. It's pretty good, isn't it? I think it's the eggnog, it's the whipped cream, it's the cinnamon and the cinnamon stick. The stick is the best. You know it's a multi-sense experience, multal, that's not a word Multi-sense experience. You get the smell of the cinnamon stick, the taste of all the Polysensual yeah, kind of like that Polysensual, multiple scents, all the scents, polyscent, maybe even Scent, and then also sensual, because it's kind of oh, no, no, just sensual, but it's kind of sensual. No, no, sensual. No, I know it's sent-tual, but like it's also sensual. No, no, just sensual. I think I want to snuggle up with this cinnamon stick, phil. Sensual Scent. I'll go up with the cinnamon stick, sensual Sent. There's a T at the end of it, there In the middle. Sensual Sent, you chew. Sensual. Sensual yeah. Sensual yeah.

Speaker 1:

Hello, viewer, is there more than one? Well, we might be up to three. We have crossed over into the 47-minute mark. We have tried larceny, we have tried maker's mark, we have an eggnog and it is Christmas. Merry Christmas, merry Christmas, phil. I would be remissed if I didn't. I know we want to be funny, don't not be funny, but it is Christmas, it is Jesus' birthday. Yeah, and that is the reason for the season. Mm-hmm, okay, that's all I wanted to say. No, no, this is really good. We have to say it, we do, and we said it and we did, and there it is. We have to say it, we do and we said it and we did, and there it is. We did Jesus. It's a festive time, but remember, that's what it's about. Yeah, it's not about eggnog, it's not about whiskey, it's about the birth of Jesus. Yeah, and that is the best gift we could have. Oh man Now, oh man Now. So good If, instead of wine, it would have been whiskey, that would have been nice, like when he turned water into whiskey.

Speaker 1:

If he would have turned water into whiskey, I would have enjoyed that. I would have appreciated that as a thing. Just a note, I would have enjoyed the wine too. Well, I'm sure it was good. That had to be some good wine. I mean, the Bible says it was the best Of all the wines. It was good wine. Who is that? I don't know. I don't even know what I'm doing. Even a person.

Speaker 1:

You sounded like you had brain damage and then tried to speak for the first time. It was good. It was good wine. Wine, it was the best wine. I. Now you sound like somebody with like a speech impediment. Wine, I'm all the wine. You sound like somebody who's had too much wine. Fine, phil, merry Christmas.

Speaker 1:

Thank you for buying both of these for me. I really appreciate that you're leaving them here. I mean I can't believe that. I can't believe it either. That is incredible. It's a miracle. It's a Christmas miracle. And the 300 bucks? I mean that is amazing. And you just dropped it. What about the shopping spree? We're going to go on. Oh, that too. I forgot about the shopping spree. We're going to go on. Oh, that too. I forgot about the shopping spree. We have to go on the shopping spree, oh, my goodness. Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1:

Merry Christmas, merry Christmas, it's going to be the next year and we've got to figure out what we're going to do for our New Year's episode. I can't wait to plan this one. We should do a lot of planning ahead of time. Okay, let's really do something. Well, first of all I mean spoiler alert we're going to do Manhattans. We already said that. Okay, I'm going to be in a bow tie. Okay, you're going to be in a gray suit. It's hard to get me in a suit.

Speaker 1:

I think that we are going to focus mostly on quotes from Mike Tyson. I love that idea. I think that's the perfect entrance into the new year is focusing on Mike Tyson quotes. It makes the most sense, does it? Well, you know he's a guy and he said things. It's either that or we.

Speaker 1:

I mean we could sing a song to death. Let's do it. Okay. Pick a song. Alright, I'll pick a song to death. Let's do it. Okay. Pick a song. All right, I'll pick a song. We will. We will sing it. We will sing it or speak it. We'll speak, sing it Until until it is absolutely obnoxious. Yeah, like most of our episodes. What is the most obnoxious song that you can think of? I don't know. I've got it. Surprise, next week you're going to hear it. I have the song in it. Yes, I've got it All right, but this week I'm drinking. I'm finishing it. This is good.

Speaker 1:

Merry Christmas, phil. Merry Christmas To the best eggnog and the best friend, I would. I would Hurt, hurt, hurt. I would. I would Heart, heart, heart, heart. I don't know how to do it. Heart, heart, heart. It looks like I have a. Yeah, you look ridiculous. Like, put those lobsters down. Put the lobsters down, all right, merry Christmas everybody. Thanks for tuning in. All of you. Merry Christmas and all all. A good night. Good night, all three of you. I appreciate it, thank you. Thanks to all of the. If you're just joining us on the podcast, 51 minutes in oh, we got a Jesus saved. Amen, ah, amen, yeah, all right, congrats, matt.

Speaker 1:

It's another Christmas episode and cut next time on whiskey bits. I know, 2025 it's. Oh, we just dated it. Well, of course we did. Oh, okay, we, that's what we're doing here. So for for tonight um, we thought we would class up this joint a little bit, yeah, uh, by getting dressed up and we're gonna going to do Not joints, oh okay, no, we're going to do the old fashioned Nope You're so Rewind Joints. No, we're not doing joints, we're doing Manhattans. Oh so, manhattan, traditionally, classically, however you want to say it, it just sounds fancy Well, and it goes into a fancy glass and like it's just very, very fancy Nice legs. So I figured we had to dress up. Yeah, dude. Hey, thanks for tuning in to Whiskey Bits. Please like, share and subscribe wherever you watch or listen to podcasts.

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