in respone to pewdiepie $60 VS $135 WHISKEY (SCOTCH)

Hey guys, how you doing? We have a different video today. We have a special guest, Buddy Jake. Hey. We're going to do a scotch tasting. This is a first for me. First for me. So we don't really know much. Kind of newbies. Big time newbies on the scotch. So the whole premise behind this, a couple things. I went to the liquor store a couple weeks ago, wanted to get a really smoky scotch. I've only ever had experience with Lagavulin and Bowmore before and Lagavulin was cream of the crop to me and ever since then I bought two or three bottles of different stuff And it's all gone downhill because what I'm looking for is smoke So I figured I remembered a year ago PewDiePie the youtuber did a video and don't knock me if you haven't seen him Lately go watch a video of his he's actually one of the better bigger youtubers. He's not a bad dude at all he did a scotch tasting test about a year ago and i really it was cool it was cool to watch so i figured in that vein maybe i'll get all of these five bottles of scotch and we'll do a video on it that way i'll know you'll know and uh i get some content out of it so we'll see we'll see what we can figure out you know we can uh the connoisseur in us yes figure out here so jake's been doing a lot of research as you know i'm not that type of person so jake jake was the man and took that initiative so we're gonna do we doing like a sip first we're gonna look at the color to see if it's light or dark and I don't know what that means but we'll discuss it in our layman's terms it's light it's supposed to be sweeter okay if it's dark it's supposed to be I think just more aged or something to do with the cask it was stored in more sherry cask okay something like that makes it darker so we'll compare them anyway I guess see which ones lightest darkest and how that affects the taste maybe. I'm going for have you had a smoky scotch before or no? I've not had a smoky scotch. Well then. I've had Johnny Walker red and that is my scotch experience. So I'm pretty excited. All right me too. So down the line you've got Tomatin or Tomatin. Tomatin? You're doing your best Vanna White. Tomatin is an Italian island. We've got Scotch whiskey from the Compass Box called the Peat Monster. I'm thinking this one might be a little bit peaty. Says a smoky, peaty, smoky and complex. The Tomaten is bourbon sherry casks. This is an IPA experiment. We'll talk a little bit about each one more but this is totally different. I don't even know, is this considered real? Uh, it's an experiment. So I think it's still a scotch. It's still a scotch. It's just stored a little different and having different flavors. This is the Lagavulin 16 Years. This was by far the most pricey one at $133. All these other ones were around $88. This one was $130. And then the Laphroaig at the end. Laphroaig, Laphroaig, is supposed to be pretty good. We've got the Italian one, we've got the French one. We've got all the scotch. all the scotches yeah and this one's supposed to be the smokiest ah five out of five four or five out of five and this one's supposed to be the peatiest peat of peat, peat, of peat, so first up is our Tomatin, how do you think you say that? Let's say, I think you got it, I think Tomatin, let me know in the comments, all right, so it's a Highland single malt and there's differences in between where it's from, correct? Yeah so I was doing some reading, I think there's five main ones I think uh there's uh Islay, I think we have two from there, those are usually more smoky and then Highlands are just more uh I think Highlands is the biggest area so it really ranges a lot what they mean but they're not necessarily known for smokiness, all right, and I think I think this one for example is really low on the smoke uh the smoke rating right, zero out of five, zero or five on the smokes, all right so this is a 12 year, all these are brand new, never opened, what what happened, so if you follow my Instagram feed you'll know that Jake and I did a number on this bottle about a week ago or so, so we're pretty familiar with how this one tastes, this is the only one I swear, all the other four are brand new, we haven't opened at all, yeah they're sealed, we'll show you um, but it's not very smoky as the zero to five rating gave it, I think it's a little sweet this one, so we should just do a little bit then just a little bit all right well we want to leave enough to mix a little water in more you tell me that's good yeah scotch glasses yes we're good so what do we do first jake i think first uh supposed to give a good smell good smell see what you can pick out alcohol if i'm being honest this one yeah there's no smells of alcohol Yeah, no floral or vanilla or anything. Nothing really, just alcohol. Yeah. People will taste the subtle. The sip. The subtle. So I think, well, we didn't look at the color. The color is very light. It's pretty light. It's not a dark one at all. Extremely light. As you can see, it's got a little bit of color, but as far as scotch is concerned, I think that's a pretty blonde. You'll have to excuse my snoring dog. And then what, do you swirl it? I think you swirl it. You give it a little swirl and you see if there's any legs on the side of the glass. There are. There are. There are. Decent amount. I would say they're pretty... Viscous? Pretty viscous. Pretty thick. There's some viscosity in those legs. We're going to give it a, what do you think, a 3? 3 out of 5 viscosity? Solid 3 viscosity. I have nothing to do with that 3 is in the middle, so we go up and down on the other ones. 3 it is. Alright. Let's see it. Let's see what it tastes. In my nose, when I breathe out, it just tastes alcohol. I can't taste it because there's no smoke at all. There's no... Yeah, it's pretty bland. It tastes alcohol. That's it. like it tastes smooth yeah it's not like a bad very very smooth like a rubbing alcohol or anything but it's just a really smooth high alcohol kind of again this one was 80 bucks might even be 60 bucks i think around the 60 to 80 dollar canadian range it's about 30 bucks American so again this is a highland right and the highland i have my cheat sheet card here it's from the liquor store it's real so it's uh the highland the highlands is very diverse and offer a vast array of different flavors. Look at you Jake. Be prepared. Typical Highland flavors, fruitcake. I'm not, I didn't taste it. Malt, oak, heather, dried fruit and smoke. I get alcohol. Who's heather? Give it a splash of water. It's supposed to dilute the alcohol a little bit and if there is any hidden flavors, you're supposed to be able to bring them out. Makes it a little easier to discern. This is a learning experience for old Joe. We got our little glasses of water here look at this look at us prepared i want like a little like i think just a splash i'm gonna follow your lead i think it's just a splash maybe like no that's too much that's too much i blew it oh i didn't see it okay it tastes weak water we're gonna need a new uh pouring mechanism yeah i'll get a spout we'll just for sure yeah yeah a bit lighter alcohol taste i can smell the water for real do you smell anything different it does it tastes a little different different it tastes different for sure not not just in a watered-down way like it actually a morph like floral like i get looking at a floral tone it's a little hard to pick out exactly what the flavor is maybe okay well i'm gonna give this one like a five I don't know really you know because again what's the scale to ten ten five i don't think extraordinary but nothing it's not a bad draft so I guess five right in the middle kind of where you'd expect it to it might be adjusted it might get all of this might get adjusted yeah everything okay next up the peat monster so we found a review on online by dr. whiskey and it reads cigarette smoking through a meal of scrambled eggs scallops and strawberry cheesecake pears a bag of cinnamon sea salt kelp lemon cheesecake a cloud of peat peaches or nectarines, fire smoke, he then summarizes it amazing balance from start to finish, peat and iodine to fruit baskets then burning leaves or wood outdoors, distinct compartments of flavor that harmonize masterfully, it followed a bit too consonant major thirds and fifths, monstrous cookie monster maybe and that is tasting notes by Dr. Whiskey, oh I think Dr. Whiskey is a funny funny gentleman, Cookie Monster, a shock I think you'll do that, you'll have to zoom in on the picture of that monster, wow yeah that's an intense looking peat monster, you know if one of these guys came for me, I don't know what I'd do, monster so this one again, this one's later I think I think that one, I think it looks like they added the water for us, perfect, oh man all right so we're gonna go a little less this time a little less sketch Oh, that's clear. That is clear. Literally clear. I'm excited about this one. I don't know if it's mainly just because of the box art and the name, but it is interesting too. It is so light. You expect it to be a little different. the color is completely different the name Peat Monster, I was expecting to be called like chocolate milk like for real so this one's a blend, I think so I don't know what... it says the idea was to balance beautifully peaty, smoky aromas and flavors with those that are malty and fruity. Yeah, it is blended. that blending peated single malt whiskeys from different regions of Scotland creates a style that is unique in the world of Scotch whisky. You will find a spectrum of seaside and medicinal peatiness, along with kipper-like smokiness, all surrounded by a core of fruity malty whisky character. Want to try this out? I think so. It's pretty clear. Clear. Clear. There's no doubt it's clear. Oh, I smell something different. Yeah, I know this one smells smoky. It's really smoky. it actually smells really good it smells fantastic very good smell okay legs legs zero very low there's a little bit but not as much as something i don't get anything maybe i'm doing it wrong i don't i don't think you can do it wrong oh yeah okay but like i had one one the other one was a three did we go to three or five that's for sure it's a three for legs we have no comparison no okay maybe it is a two oh it's not so bad i guess i think i think i think a two two solid two i think one would be like that's just a slap in the face just a slap all right two we gotta leave room for one yeah so two but like the leg rating a little bit smoky this is that someone say peated not me because i don't know the difference i think it's a monstrous amount of a cookie monster, cookie monster maybe so right away it's a hundred percent different than the last one like not even in the same bulk that I don't smell the alcohol in this one, like the uh the smokiness overpowers the alcohol, correct? I like this one it's got like that sticks with you in your nose like when you breathe out the smoke it's almost it feels kind of campfirey kind of smoke like it feels saturating, I don't know it feels like it's good it's good it's good I think I need to pour a little bit more so I can put some water in mine that's good it's totally different you want a little bit more, we didn't get a different water that was probably the perfect amount, it was like a teaspoon Yeah, and again, it does change the smell but just to in all in all honesty just to subdue what it was to me Yeah, what about you? No, I still taste a strong smoke flavor. Yeah, just even less the alcohol. Did you sip it? I haven't sipped it yet, no, I smell the strong smoke flavor, but it just seems dull. Well, that was different. Did it change it for you? Oh, not really. What do you think? Are you picking anything out? No, I'm not. Are we gonna make any bets? Okay Heather We're all keep saying heather and fruitcake and you're gonna be right. I don't know why or what we just gotta make a guess I'm gonna look online. I'm gonna peep. You wanna peep? Hmm what gave it away? Yeah, I don't know honestly like again I get like a more floral yeah when I add the water Definitely it definitely changes the taste though. It does. I find this one's not much uh even before i've learned i'm gonna burn when you drink it no burn no smell burn either like the alcohol no uh i think i've been pretty happy with that i think i'm gonna make a seven 7.5 for me i go i'd maybe do a six we gotta do a six yep we still got that we still got room to grow i hope i hope someone's noted my scottish blanket huh because it's because we're drinking scotch okay this is the one I've been most excited about this is the IPA one this is an experiment when I went to buy these scotches the lady at the LCBO tried to talk me out of buying this she said some people have been not impressed with it it's experimental so that it means it's a little bit different every time because of the IPA cask that it's stored in or what is the word aged in so I said sounds like a challenge we'll get her and see so I am interested in this one a lot it's got a cool bottle this is by Glenfiddich you guys probably know Glenfiddich it's a common around here especially it's very common very common so this is a single malt experimental and untraditional the brewmaster suggested creating a Glenfiddich whiskey finished in an IPA craft beer cask. Something never done in the industry before. Sounds like Brewmaster did a lot of hard work for the people at the liquor store to tell customers not to buy it. Hopefully the Brewmaster doesn't see this. Poor guy. He'll be angry. I don't know how long it's aged. 43%. The experiment is it's not aged. It's not aged at all. That was almost like a champagne. It's a clean one. Entries in the Glenfiddich Experimental Series. So this is a pretty like popular run-of-the-mill like everyday So it's just it's finished in casks seasoned with India Pale Ale. It smells peaty or smoky I'm not sure what the difference is, but not as much as the last one. No, it's no peat monster No, no, it's not a monster at all. It's just an experiment But there's a little alcohol though It feels like somewhere in between yeah the first nothing and peat monster I hear you that is true I don't smell anything but that little bit of smoke little bit of I've described the taste as burning okay it's got it's got a burn to it for sure it's got some decent legs holy she got legs I skip legs skip leg day every day never skip leg day that's uh decent legs on that one actually very syrupy yeah might be might be four she's a four easy I wish I knew how these people got these notes and these tastes and these like different specific you know what I mean yeah I don't really see it practice practice we just gotta practice drink all these bottles over and over again keep drinking until you remember Google yeah it's a bit stingy on the throat yeah it's got more burn the last one didn't the last one went down smooth. A splash of water in this one. Oh! Dirt it! What do I do now? What do I even do? See, that one changed big time. I taste almost like a cinnamon in that one. I see that. Almost, uh, see this one I'm thinking floral kind of. Okay. But I didn't notice that in the last one. There isn't a stronger taste of something in this after. No, yeah, I'm just, yeah, something's, there tastes more in it. It definitely changed the taste. Complex. Uh, with the first one, Thompson, it didn't change the taste at all like now. Right. just alcohol it was the worst by far yeah it's it was it was smooth but it gave it gave nothing other than that right like I can't pick out the flavors these last two but this is it they're there they're the last bottle it's the strip scratch for real we looked at some points on that last one the IPA just to see see what flavors we were supposed to find and I can see where the experimental part might be coming into this based on these flavors all right so when you the nose did you smell candy necklaces what a lemon zest milky corn flakes with a sprinkling of white sugar I didn't I didn't pick these up I wish I did because that would be interesting it'd be a lot more entertaining yeah it's like a bowl of cereal yeah that's what I want to think of when I'm drinking scotch old soggy bowl of corn flakes. Yeah, so it gets better. So the finish, that Ovaltine, Ovaltine finish. Cocoa pop. Hints of damp green leaves. So it's, you know, the one interesting thing, and then everyone else will say it, but cinnamon is in the flavors. Really? So yeah, no florals. How is cinnamon in the same ballpark as milky? It's in there with a sprinkling of white sugar oh yes yeah next up the fro the frog the frog is French guy yeah oh so this is the one when I posted on Instagram my number one Tomatin they were saying get this get the frogs I've never had this apparently this is the smokiest of the smoky correct this is the smokiest of the Oh, that is a cool bottle. It looks almost like a Jameson bottle. It does. It's kind of green. Very green. Very green. It looks like a light-colored scotch as well. Hard to tell in the green bottle. Hard to tell in the green bottle. Because I would say it's a green-colored scotch. Right. And I just don't think that's going to hold up. This probably tastes like 7-Up, I think. It's like a Mountain Dew. A pinch of Mountain Dew. Laugh frog. So it looked online, and this was described as the best breakfast scotch. So keep that in mind. Keep that in mind. Yep. That's how I eat my scotch, bacon, and eggs. If the other one tastes like cornflakes, this one probably just pairs well with it for breakfast. Because it's a complete breakfast. Indeed. All right. It smells alcoholy. Do you smell alcohol? I smell a little alcohol. I definitely smell smoke. Yeah, I smell smoke. It's smoky. It's a different smoky smell than P-Monster. 100% it is. Like, P-Monster smells like campfire to me. Overpowering. P-Monster, yeah, it smells smokier, just really campfire. I like the smell of it a lot better. Do you? I smell a lot of alcohol personally. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah, I'm not getting that. Not much legs, really. No. Probably down there. It's there, but it's... What does that even mean, at least? I have no clue. It's for the leg scale. You're right. Yes. That's what it is. That's it. I like my Scotch's leggy. I like, like... Touche. Touche. All right. That's... I find it really good. It smells... It tastes smokier than it smells for me. for me i find that little little exactly the opposite yeah yeah i smelled like more alcohol nice i tasted good amount of smoke yeah i like it actually yeah probably this is probably my favorite one so far to be honest I find it has like Peak Monster has some good flavors but it went a little extreme with monsters and uh like yeah like a monster like a monster would do your friend just you overdid it the downfall of all monsters just going too hard and too far and too far and took it to the extreme and that's why you get mobs mobs of villagers chasing you with pitchforks and and torches and this guy just said whoa whoa enough enough calm down you know and uh i found a good balance i think i like it this is my favorite one by far yeah i would have to agree a frog it's french yeah i like that one i figured ronaldo said that's great stuff he smells the smell of medicine the smoke can remain at ninety-five years we say bearded I'm not sure where that last one cut out that we were talking about how much we loved it and I looked up and it said you filled up an SD card because you talked way too much so you just filled up a 32 SD card I really like it very good we just added some water to it this is my favorite by far kind of see a little bit of a salty taste like now that you you read about the like it's in your head or the Isla one, see you mentioned those flavors. I'm looking for those flavors specifically. I can kind of see I think a little salt. Where that comes from. I can't see seaweed. I don't know what seaweed tastes like. There's seaweed juice. It's smooth. I like the smoke. It's not overpowering. Definitely. For a 5 out of 5. When I read about it. Yeah 5 out of 5. I thought it was going to be a crazy smoke. Compared to Peat Monster, it's just tame. It is tame. Can I say floral again? Is that just a broad spectrum? I don't get anything else other than that. Floral? Floral? Is it floral? Floral? Floral. I like it. I'm definitely... Let's just check out what the people who know what they're talking about say. Yeah, yeah. I might give that one like a hard 7, 8. Definitely, definitely, it's definitely a good breakfast scotch. Uh-huh. Like the teachers say. Yep, you can eat that with a flapjack. It makes sense now. Pears, mangoes, lemons, seaweed, and it all topped off with iodine. Oh, iodine! Oh, that's your salt! No iodized salt, I think so. Okay, iodized salt maybe Peat Monster. Was there salt in it though? There's salt, salt's one of the characters really? Oh, I mean it mentioned it on there is one of the flavors that could have No, that's pretty good. Yeah, I didn't get it. No floral, a no floral. Sorry Jack, flowers, jackal and two out of five with Jackal. Oh, five of them. Each bottle of La Frog comes with the gift of friendship. Oh. It's right here in the instructions. We should have read the instructions before we started. We were probably doing it all wrong. This is the last one up. This is La Froggin'. You might have heard of Ron Swanson talking about it. This is by far the best, before all of this, the best scotch I had ever had. I'll tell you now in two minutes what I like better, that or the La Frog. Oh, she's a darker one though. Way darker than all of them put together. Right. Really? That is really dark. Especially if you put that ball beside the peat monster. Oh, she's got a wooden nose alarm. What do you think? Soft or heavy on the top? I think it's gonna be heavy. Think it's gonna be a champagne kind of Oh. Me, mid-body. That's a five. Like most of our ratings. It's five. Player safe, she's a five. So this one is definitely an Isla. Isla? I smell it from here. The smoke? Oh, this is like a peat monster type. Oh yeah? That level of smoke in there? Yeah. I don't know what people are talking about with this. It's a four and the other is a five on the charts because this is already, I can smell it. It's much, much smokier. Yeah. Okay. I still know the peat monster level of smoking. No, you're right. Okay. The peat monster was wild. More so than the... The fall? Yep. More so. The fall? This is what I think of when I think of Scotch. This color. Oh, no. Oh, no. No, no, that's pretty good. That's a strong leg looking into the light. She's got legs She knows how to use them. She knows how to use them. Yep. At least we can agree on that. It's a five. Yeah, definitely. I would put this definitely above. This might go to the top. It's heavy. It's a heavy smoke, but this is a smooth, good smoke. It's not overpowering smoke. Right. I like this. It's a heavy smoke without being campfire smoke. It's got a leg, cigarette, filter. She's going right to the top of my list. That beats Le Frog, I think. I like that one a whole lot. That's really nice. That's really nice scotch. It's close this one and Le Frog. I don't think we're gonna it's not supposed to be Le Frog. So I'm gonna call you Le Frog. That's what it's supposed to be. Well it's Scottish so it's like Le Frog. No that's Irish. Le Frog. It's like Swedish. After the Swedish capital. Le Frog. Haglöfs Värna. Somebody told me I butchered the word Haglöfs Värna almost as bad as the word scotch. as bad as they butchered the word Fjällräven. It's supposed to be like, Fjällräven. And they're like, something, boy. And they call it fall raven. It's literally spelled like F-J-E-L-L. Fjällräven. Fjällräven. Yeah. No offense to Swedish people, you know I mean, somebody's definitely going to tell you that we're doing this wrong. Oh, 100%. And the fact that I poured it on myself every time would make me agree. We are wrong. You know what? That's my experience. I do most things wrong. Yeah. Turns out all right, though. That's how you do things first time. how you learn yeah that's true i've never done this before yeah i might even drink one of these this on ice yeah this one's smooth this one's smooth like this one uh La Frog wow sorry look the frog uh yeah those two are very smooth they're a good level of smoke um it's really close for me between those two i'm gonna go out on a limb and say this one's a 8.5 And the La Frog is a 7.5. Or maybe even an 8. But I think I like them all, really, except for the IPA and the Tomatin. Those two really weren't what I was looking for. Although, if I think I had to rate it, it would be the Lagavulin as the number 1. Then the La Frog as number 2. The Heatmonster as number 3. The IPA and then the Tomatin. What do you think? I think I'd do the same, except I think I'd swap the Tomatin and the IPA. I think I'd put the IPA at the bottom and the Tomatin above that, but the IPA was just kind of... It was not as aggressive. It was different. It was experimental. Was it? Not in a good way. It was an experiment. Yeah, it was an experiment, and not all experiments work out, i.e. Frankenstein. Frankenstein Yeah. All right, guys. Well, maybe we're going to wrap this up. I know we've been talking for a long time. I hope you enjoyed this. enjoyed this this is obviously just a one-shot video you know what I mean I'm not gonna be doing a vodka review down the line but we enjoyed it well yeah we could do maybe like a beer a beer one more time beer one I don't know more about beers I think I think we both pull that one off a little I've drank my share of beers I think in my day yeah yeah yeah we do that cool well then we're gonna wrap this up thanks guys for watching tune in soon for another camping video I'll see you soon