Japanese Whisky is a LIAR (sometimes)

Loved the Taketsuru 12 and 17. Still have a few bottles. They deffinitely used Ben Nevis in this line. They have "apparently" stopped due to pressure, but hard to find the facts on this.

I like it when Rex is sober and we get some education from Daniel ❤

Omaze are a horrible company.

I have purchased like 4 or 5 bottles because of your videos. I think I have spent like $600.00 on them.

Akashi, aka White Oak Eigashima, is a fantastic distillery and sake brewery for that matter. They technically had the first whiskey distilling license in Japan, circa 1919, but didn't use it until the 1960s, Suntory was the first to distill whiskey in the country

Distill blue raspberry lemonade Kool-a!d

One side note, not all shochu is made from rice. They can also be made from either sweet potato or barley. Barley shochu has been my favorite of the three.

Lived and worked in Japan and have been back many times. Just returned from Tokyo. Japanese whisky has a way to go before it recovers. Best thing I had was Ichiro's Malt Chichibu The Peated 2018 release but good luck finding it outside Japan. Also, I figured out where all of the Springbank disappeared to. 😎

Planning a guys trip for later this year. Any great whisky festivals you’d recommend?

Of the dozen or so Japanese whiskeys I've had, I found they were somehow lacking soul and purpose. Compare it to Macallan 18 (1987) or even Glenlivet 21 Archive and Japan's best tastes lacking depth, soul, and character. Over-rated.. for now..

Hey, guys. Love your channel. Been watching it for several years, now. I've kinda fallen out of the whiskey hobby, mainly because I couldn't justify the amount of money I was spending on it. lol. I still like watching your channel, though, because I still like learning more about it.

I have a request. When you back reference another episode, can you put the link to that episode in the video notes? I'm really curious where that sulfer/match video you referenced is going.

this is also why i love Bourbon!

Living in Japan I watched this to try and figure out what was a good option over here, and I feel like this was a very different video than I was looking for, but still very interesting.

You guys should try Yama by bainbridge mizunara cask. I believe the only American Japanese whiskey, as bainbridge won the mizunara wood in an auction and made barrels out of it! Smells like banana bread! Love it and love the Channel

The naruto sound 🤣

Ah, sponsored by Omaze...I thought it said Omegle at first. That's a very different thing lol

Love the nerd videos

Your lack of concern for the fact that you have an alien just totally Bustin Loose in the Distillery is concerning.

There's a racial element to this many Asians don't have the genes that other races do that allow us to process alcohol better
So it really fucks them up and it's a biological reason.

Loved this episode! Please more like this!

A few of us have been saying this for a while.
Nikka from the Barrel or what I prefer to call Ben Nevis with other stuff added to it.

Evidently you guys are fans of it's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. One of the best shows of all time. Cheers 🥂

FYI the suntory with the blue label is named AO. That translates to blue.

Please slaughter the edm extraterrestrial with not delay. It is disturbing.

Does the omaze girl that explains the house come along with it too, cuz hot damn I'd buy that house and have a wife I the process too. Hehehehehe

Japanese whiskey is ridiculously overpriced where I live...

Gaki no Tsukai. Nice. lol

"....so I can mooch your collection for research." I'm using that one for sure. Essential viewing here. Cheers.

The Always Sunny clip cracked me up

I feel like that llast bottle is going to cost me a lot of money to track down.

Omaze is a shitty scam that gives very little money to the charities.

I have a bottle of Nikka from the Barrel. It's one of my favorites I have in stock. It basically taste like Glenlivet 12, but with a higher proof and a little sweeter.

Have you ever tried Suntory Very Old, Very Rare whiskey?

Costco has a great Japan whiskey in stock. Don’t remember the name. It’s like a sweeter version of Classic Laddie

I'm here to see which one gets you nice and tipsy.

Lil Uzi Vert- “Money longer”

They use this music on the educated barfly

Japanese anything is a liar sometimes. Think about it :P

Great episode!

That's why I only drink American

Would love if yall did a deep dive on Canadian whisky

Regrets not getting a few bottles back when prices weren't astronomical on my trips to Japan...

Speakin on transparency can we talk about kaiyo they wont call it Japanese because it technically was aged partially off the coast of japan even though everything else was done in Japan.

Masataka Taketsuru, Masataka Taketsuru, Masataka Taketsuru, Masataka Taketsuru... That's fun to say.

I love Japan and my wife and I love visiting Japan (even been to two distilleries), but I never found Japanese whisk(e)y to be worth the price. HOWEVER, I like getting Suntory Toki JUST for High Balls. That flavor profile is very similar (at least to my memory) to the canned Suntory High Balls you can get at Japanese convivence stores. So the past year or so, when I am feeling serious Fernweh - I mix that stuff up with some plain soda/seltzer water and wedge of lemon and I get to feel like I am traveling. Even drink it with some pickles, rice crackers, edamame or other Japanese-like snacks to feel like I am in some Izakaya (minus the 300 yen cover charge).

I was actually given a bottle of Nikka 17 as a gift years ago and it’s sat on display now. The end of this vid has me properly excited to crack that bottle some day waaaaay down the line.

If they have a mailing address or office in the state from which it is sourced can they avoid the inclusion of the source on the label?