hello malty magnanimous merry makers and thank you to andrew taylor for that mention introducing
here in the bothy somewhere in the irish c rafi review 877 extras
extras because it's not strictly a whiskey review
you've probably noticed that already because it's a non-age statement single malt
and it's not one that i would particularly review myself anyway it's the entry-level laphroaig
but my little brother bigclive.com has been doing a series of deconstructions
of different alcoholic beverages in which he pours them into a water purifier one of
the plug-in water purifiers and he basically um he separates the alcoholic component from what's left
and it's it's not strictly distilling because distilling is a specific process
to um turn low winds into higher strength alcohols this is in fact um what's the name again oh my
goodness right in the tip of my tongue i had the name even before i started recording this
old age doesn't come alone i'm just sharing that with you um it's
oh jeez give me a second i won't be a minute i'll start pouring it and then i'll remember
there we go i'll pour a bit more so you can actually see the color
and i'll post some of this too and explain it shortly there you go
it's a process called rectification
right rectification in which you basically purify or separate one section of a liquor from another
because of the different molecular weights and he's put a bottle of laphroaig through his
water purifier and as you can see i now have a completely clear
version of what used to be laphroaig it's clear as vodka
when i knows it it's mild sweet and slightly chocolatey yeah you weren't expecting that
there's a hint of chlorine about it gradually over time and it will take time
the mild phenolic residue starts to become a little bit more noticeable
taste wise
much more intact it's a sort of slightly confectionary sweeter version of basic laphroaig
where the intensity of the phenolic the actual clout of the phenolic is removed and you're left
with something which is more odavey the flavor the complexity is most certainly missing but it
actually remains a very pleasant and palatable spirit i'll have another taste just to be sure
to be honest i think someone some people would find this
more accessible as a beverage than the original contents but what was left behind in his
water purifier is this very cloudy and very interesting
the nose
is surprisingly neutral considering what you might be expecting to be coming out of this when
it gets separated like that i mean laphroaig is the pitiest the most in your face pity the most
face slapping pity single malt out there that's readily available and accessible to buy
i mean there are others like leche for example and long row but they're far less available
this is i'm going to taste it now i've already tasted it to be honest so it's
not going to be a shock or a surprise but you get something that looks like
breakfast tea with a drop of milk added that's the appearance
sharp citrus ashy very ashy chimney smoke ash
i have to say it's not particularly pleasant
but it's very very interesting when you take a whiskey and just separate it out
from the volatile components when you remove the alcohol from the other components that are
making up the whiskey the reason it's so cloudy is to do with the phenolic content
that's come through in the distillate along with vegetable oils from the barley and extracts from
the cask this is a very young single malt it doesn't it hasn't extracted much from the cask
and the reasons for that is because when you put less active casks in to your portfolio for this
style of whiskey it keeps the phenolics fresher and and people buy laphroaig for heavy pittiness
that's what the brand's associated with so when you separate them out
it's an interesting and eccentric experience and what's kind of curious for me is what happens when
i add a little bit of this into a standard bottle of laphroaig would it make it more laphroaigy
that's a project for the future but what i'm going to do is add this to the glass
and bear in mind this whiskey has been chill filtered it's slightly cloudy but certainly
nowhere is clipped nowhere nowhere near as cloudy as when you've got the residual extract
has it reconstituted as a laphroaig
yes
slightly tamed slightly sweeter slightly subdued but definitely distinctively yes
even down to the tcp notes um this is a novelty it's supposed to be a novelty i'm doing it to save
you the effort and just to link up and have a wee partnership something meaningful with my brother's
site bigplayclive.com pop along and have a look at it if you're interested in gadgets and novelties
and teardowns of products that you can buy on ebay that sort of thing but in the meantime from my
point of view as a whisky and iraq it's just been very interesting i have to say it's not something
i would do myself i just wouldn't do it but he's done it been very interesting funnily enough
i'm going to conclude with another nose and taste of this i think that
this particular separation and then bonding together exercise has actually worked better with
the laphroaig than it has with the jagermeister or the wine which has been the previous experiments i
think it's actually worked a lot better it's been a lot more successful and i think one reason is
because the delicate nature of the single malt we're skiing the fact that apart from a drop
of caramel colorant and frank not much has gone into that otherwise this would be a lot darker
it shows that the delicate nature of pot still distilled
barley spirit malted barley spirit
is actually much more recoverable when you do this exercise than than other liquors
it's got a sweetness about it as well it's almost as if it's become a much more palatable accessible
less brittle version of what it used to be as the entry-level non-age statement
laphroaig in the range the one that you can find in a supermarket i bought this in a supermarket
so very interesting i hope you've enjoyed this i won't be doing any more this is the last one
i thought i'd finish in a single malt and then call it a day i normally my brother's planning
to conduct his experiments with malibu bailey's irish cream and a few other exotic liquors some
people really seem to enjoy this others i think the more serious malt anorak finds it a little bit
daft but there we go it's done and dusted you won't find this anywhere else in the internet only
in my channel original content there you have it thank you for watching malt mates pop back again
for ralphie review 877 extra extras in which i will be presenting a defense for glendronic
that'll be interesting