Irish People Try Danish Whisky For The First Time

Now tell me this, I always get confused. So do I. Denmark? Denmark. The Danes, the Dutch, the Danish. Swedish. Denmark. Netherlands. I don't think I've ever had any Danish whiskey. I don't think... Are they known for their whiskey? I would never have thought about whiskey in Denmark. Never. Yeah. What are the Danish famous for? Is Sigrid from Denmark? Sigrid? The singer? Yeah. She's Norwegian. Oh. I've never been one for drinking, really. I've never actually had whiskey in my life. First time ever? I'd love to try whiskey for the first time. Do you want to go? I think so. Sure, let's do it. Let's do it. Oh! Very nice. I like that. That's a glamorous little bottle. What is this? So let's see if... I'm going to defer to your whiskey knowledge on this. Like I wouldn't be a huge whiskey expert. Oh, come on, I'm no Darren now. Beautiful bottle. Beautiful. Oh, look at all this. Hey, this is stunning. That's good, that's good. In 2005, on the West Coast of Denmark, nine friends set out to make whiskey with distinctive Danish character. Hurst. So that's what they owe with the slashes. Very good. Hurst. You say it best when you sing it together. Okay, I don't know. I just, I feel like it's going to be one of those. I don't know. I mean, ah. Isn't hygge a Danish thing? The idea of like coziness. HYGGE, isn't there something like that? HYGGE, which is H-Y-G-G-E. It's a word in Danish and Norwegian that describes a cozy, contented mood evoked by comfort and conviviality. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't get much cozier than whiskey. So this is perfect. I'm quite partial to this now. What's it called again? Stonin. Stonin, yeah, that's what I keep saying. Stonin. A lot of head off this, I would. Yes. That's serviceable. It's definitely whiskey. There's something okay in the state of Denmark. Gorgeous. Very easy drinking. It tastes very mild and like blended. Quite like Jameson. Yes to the Vikings. Yes to Stonin. And to the Nine... Nine Friends is a lot. I wouldn't have Nine Friends to make a distillery with. To start a business with. I would bet you they're all rides as well. I know. Show yourselves. So I tend to judge them on like how fiery it is. Yes. That's pretty fiery. It is. It's burny, but it's not gassy, if that makes sense. Now look, I know these are all wonderful adjectives. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is supposed to be smooth and delicate. I like it and it's very easy to drink, but I prefer my whiskey to have a little bit more fieriness. Maybe not an ethanol burn. It's not that, but this is really nice and smooth, but I hope they have some more that have a little bit more... I wish Darren was here to explain to me what I'm explaining. He's like, what you mean is this? I want a bit more of a kick. I want a bit more of a slap in the face. Do you know what I mean? I wish Darren was here so he could slap me in the face. I know, me too. What? Sorry, yeah. Bonk, bonk, bonk. Ooh. Bonk, bonk, bonk. Okay. Bonk. Stunning. Ooh, this is cool. Oh, this looks like a mythological folklore thing. Look of I, like a body, like a waterfall melted. Sounds like a... I thought you were like rapping. Sounds like a douchey song. Yeah. Oh, look at that percentage. Pretty high percentage. That's pretty high. 45.7 ABV, baby. I know this looks a bit satanic, but I don't think in Danish folklore it is. But I think the Danes are big on their folklore. Yeah. Just like the Irish. They have a lot of really cool stories that I need to learn more about. Spanish vermouth cask. Vermouth is minty, right? I thought vermouth was mint. Vermont. Vermouth is a fortified wine. Right. That's kind of like a before dinner aperitif thing, is it? Like we're in like an Agatha Christie book. Yeah. And vermouth, I find, is absolute gack. I've never tried it. I love when brands do a little tinkering, get a little freaky. It's great. So I'm excited for this. Get a little freaky. Yeah. Yes, that is definitely your spirit. He is a freaky guy. Yeah. This guy fucks. And I would. A drink. Well, there's more fire in that, isn't there? Are you? Ooh. What? No. This is so nice. Oh, yeah. It's good as never. No. No, no, no, no, no. When you said no, I didn't realize you were stopping yourself from doing something. I thought you were saying that about the drink. No, the drink. I was saying, what is it about goat people in movies? There's something about them. That is lively. Kind of like a fireball. Got up my nose and everything. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that one's engaging you on all levels. It tastes more layered. There's a bit more of a party going on in my mouth. It's a bit spicier. It's a bit warmer. It's a bit more tingly. I'm getting it more crunchy, spicy. I thought the last one was sweeter and this has a bit of a tang to it, a bit of a bite. You know you're right. I can still feel it on my tongue. It's like. Again, my not descriptive whiskey language, it doesn't have the dragon fire. It does have a little bit of warmth in it, but there's something that's making it go this way as opposed to that way. Yes. It's really nice. But how's it affecting your hygge? It's ramping it up. Oh, it's ramping it up. Yeah, it's really cranking it up on the hygge scale. But is that a good thing? Yeah, all hygge cylinders are firing right now. Wow, Jesus. I don't know if that's supposed to be. I don't know if that's. No, we are rocketing towards who got at a furious pace. That's very similar. Oh, bastard. Bastard? A stunning bastard. Stunning bastard. That was like a foreign person doing an Irish accent. This is kind of a wolf rat things. Roaring bastard. Yeah. And they're like carried through. So the other one was kind of similar. I feel like they have a series of these. Oh, this is fun. Did you read that? You probably read that like five minutes ago. So it's a rye whiskey with a mezcal cask finish. How do you feel about mezcal? I haven't had much of it, to be honest with you. It's lovely. But I really like it, yeah. Mezcal, I had on this channel before. And it is, if I recall, terrible. Local rye, local barley, local water. It smells strong. Whoa. It does. It's very strong. Shall we? We shall too. Oh, that's a smoky whiskey. It's a weird taste off that one. That's as expressive as I can get. Yeah, this one's like, it doesn't even really taste like a whiskey. No. That's divine. It's so fiery. It's really good. It's really nice. Very smoky. That may be my favorite so far, to be honest with you. That's really good. You disagree, wow. No, I like it. How dare you? How dare you react that way to my own opinion? God forbid I have a moment where I'm not beaming at you. You don't have to judge me. But it's not as aggressive as the flavors I associate with this kind of a drink normally are. Like this is more palatable. What kind of licorice-y thing going on? I think that's the mezcal. That dash tequila is oily, but it's almost like an oiliness. Yeah, no, I can get the oiliness. I'm behind it. It could be the fact that I've had two other whiskeys beforehand. I'm just going to agree with anything, but. That is true. Yes, indeed. I concur. It's really nice, because I don't like mezcal, so I would not have bought this. But mezcal is lending a depth to it that wouldn't necessarily be there. I can't believe how much I'm learning about whiskey thanks to this channel. It's very smoky. It's stunning. I mean, this could just be a bottle of scotch. Like, it's fab. It's really, really nice. Scotch isn't my favorite. This doesn't make sense. Scotch isn't my favorite type of whiskey, because I do find it too smoky. Drink some sort of mezcal cask, Finnish, Danish. Mezcal has the sweetness that tequila has, but then it's wasteful. This is, like, not too smoky. Maybe the smokiness is too smoky. I like some scotch. Sorry, sorry. This is not, it's not Kiera's podcast. It's almost as if you forgot the camera was on. It's raining in. What the hell just happened? This one is not showing a lot. No. They're kind of keeping it close to their chests there, aren't they? Rye and whiskey, like you've never tasted it before. I'm kind of sad that it doesn't have a beautiful illustration. Yeah, where's, what? Because they do it so well. Where's our, where's our hit? I'm guessing they like their rye. Yeah, they seem to. Made using local rye and barley, floor-malted, distilled in direct tired pot stills, and matured in virgin American oak barrels. Floor-malted, I don't know what that means. Darren! Oh, I wish, if he's in this video, I'll have a cut symbol. What? Guess the percentage. Okay, I'm going to say 42. No, 48. Oh! Oh, vanilla, notes of vanilla, citrus, and mint. Don't tell me what I'm tasting. I'll tell you if it's vanilla and mint. I'm not sure if I like the three of those comboed together. Vanilla what and mint? Citrus and mint. They're all three main flavors. Yeah, what's that? Very, very dominant flavors. So putting them together is crazy. I feel like I might not enjoy this as much. What, simply because of the bottle? Yeah, maybe. Won Best Danish Rye at the 2018 World Whiskey Awards. Well, listen. Okay. Yeah, I mean, Danish rye, it's the world famous thing and it couldn't be any better, right? I guess we should taste this, right? We should, we should. There we go. Cheers. To my favorite bottle. I really like it. Yeah, it's not bad. I think it's really nice. Oh, I feel like I'm breathing fire on the aftertaste. That's nice. God almighty, it's pretty tame for 48, isn't it? It tastes like a perfectly lovely American rye, but it doesn't taste as exciting as the other ones. Right, okay. So it's lovely. I would happily drink it. See, that for me has an element, I think it's the citrus. Maybe I don't like citrus in my whiskey because it is sharper than the other ones that are smoother. These words are very impressive. It was so good at the start and then this weird flavor comes through. I'm not gonna say it was good at the start, but definitely it was better at the start. Your opinion may be colored by the fact that there's no hot ******* goat boy on the front. What can I say? I'm a simple creature. I'm the goat boy. You like what you like. I like what I like. I ain't gonna yuck your yum, okay? I do love the illustrations. I just think it's so gorgeous. There's a note of vanilla in the smell. Ah, okay, let me try again and try and seek the vanilla. So vanilla, citrus, mint. I don't get any mint. I am hearing vanilla. I really wanted to like this one. Yeah, you really did want to like that one. I was a little different to it at the start. I'll be totally honest. Well, I'm a ******* baby. I like my whiskeys sweet. What's this on the hygge scale? On the hygge? Oh, oh, very good question. Five rocket chips out of 10. There should be no rocket chips on the hygge scale. The metric scale, I'm who bad? ------- pay attention! There should be no hygge! Four varieties of Danish whiskey. How are we feeling overall? Maybe steer away from the rye a little. I would like to see a peat. Yeah. Danish whiskey. They had that peat. You know the man who was found in the bog? You know the Tolland man or whatever he was called? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like they had him. So, I mean, obviously they've got bogs, so they can do the whole peaty thing. It was gorgeous. The branding on the bottles, lovely brand. Would actually like to try more Danish whiskey. So, let us know what other brands we need to try. They were nice whiskeys. They stood the test of time. We've been here for three days and they, that was a ---- joke. Cut to there. I was like, where's he going? I don't know. If you'd like to see more of these videos where myself and this, you just get drunk and say wild things about goat boys, then why don't you hit subscribe below? 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