hello multi mysterious mumbling m m m ms because it's a big protracted malt mention i had to cut
it down a little bit uh but thank you to pavel kalinowski for the mention introducing 928 extras
so question is where the good whiskey's to be found um it's all very well known
again buying a bottle of bad whiskey these days it's getting increasingly easy to do
i'm just giving you an opinion you see the thing is mock mates i buy virtually 100
of what i review on this channel and i always have done in the very very rare occasion
that i am given a bottle of whiskey i will absolutely ensure that i let you know and
this has happened once in five years so i'm out there with the money from the um google
adsense income from advertising and also from my patreon pal supporters a big shout out to my pals
who are following me in ralfy ralphie and patreon um who are getting some very juicy extra content i
don't put out in the main channel because the subscribers and very valuable uh helpers in
helping me to provide a budget for the spirits that i buy and you see this gives me an advantage
an advantage is that if i had been given a bottle of whiskey then there's an unwritten contract
and you've got to play the game and this is the way journalism works
and there's plenty of online commentators who will take samples but i think the main
thing as long as they disclose it so long as that they're not covering it up and trying to hide it
that's the important thing let the viewer decide in the value of the content but in the interests
of transparency and integrity any reviewer who is reviewing a with a spirit um and has been
given it for free should really mention that and another benefit of the fact that i buy my
whiskey's another spirits is that i go to a shop and i get a bottle
off the shelf which is basically exactly the same bottle as you would be getting if you
went into the shop and bought that bottle off that shelf around about the time that i did
and that's a big big difference compared to the free samples given out by distillers which tends
to be bottled as very flattering versions of their brand and it's not the first time over the years
that i've tasted a given bottle from a distillery and compared it directly with one i owned and they
were two were they were the same single malt but the two were very different quality very different
not just a bit by the way serious difference but i don't criticize the the distillers for
that because it's business they're looking after business it's real life buyer we buyer beware but
buyer take care but i want to help you to take care of buyer because i know your pain
because there's times i buy a bottle to review and in the old days i just put it aside and i
say no i'm not going to review that it's not good enough for review but that's changed now because
there's more and more single malts coming out that frankly are are distinctly inferior versions of
what they used to be and i'm not happy about it i'm really not and you need to know this because
i'm not trying to be a nuisance here and disrupt the industry particularly but when people buy one
bad whiskey from a bunch of 10 they'll forgive it but some when someone goes out and buys two
or three bottles of bad whiskey that they've not enjoyed they stop buying whiskey they walk away
they go to bourbon they go to rum they go to rye they buy a few bottles of cognac or brandy
they might even get into mezcal or maybe even grappa because there's some really
good grappa out there you don't see it don't hear about it but it's out there
you don't need malt to have a malt journey alternatives can provide your moment
as part of your malt journey but if you're prepared to do a little bit extra work
you can certainly cut down the risk of buying a poor quality bottle of whiskey you can do so
significantly if you take the three-step challenge i'm going to explain the three-step challenge to
you now the three-step challenge to avoiding bad whiskey great title i'll use it for the video
number one when you're looking at buying a bottle of whiskey get your mobile device out
or go on your laptop and put the name of that whiskey and followed by a reviews enter your
search engine and just see what comes up look at the little star ratings and then follow them back
to see where they're coming from to make sure they're not marketing that they're not uploaded
that's where you start point number two once you've narrowed things down and you may be
avoiding the worst of the whiskies build up a good rapport in us with a specialist liquor shop
you might not actually visit there too often but if you order by mail and they know you is
a good customer and furthermore you've checked them out to see if the people behind the counter
who are managing the till actually know what they're talking about i want to tell you about
these people some of them are just in there for the money possibly part of the family
and they're not actually interested in spirits at all so they can tell you nothing
they're useless in that respect they'll give you the bottle they'll take your money they'll
give you a receipt and you'll leave and that's fine so long as you know where you stand but in
other specialist retail shops you've got people who it's become a little niche in their life
they happen to find themselves doing that job they take an interest in what they're doing and one
reason why is because when they're buying whiskey in from suppliers and bottlers and distillers
they get free samples so they can get to sample spirits rather than you having to pay for them and
then they can tell you what they thought of them and if they respect you and respect themselves
they're going to give you an honest opinion and that gets to the point when you build up
a rapport that you say to them you walk in you say rightio what do you think would be interest to me
don't tell them what you're looking for ask them what they think you should be looking for
this will open up your panorama and your view of single mops significantly and over time you'll see
more and more and more independent bottlings feature and fewer a few official bottlings
particularly unfortunately from the biggest makers of whiskey corporate multinationals work a certain
way and they're looking to engineer and and feed from a certain socio-demographic passive consumer
and when they've got the volume of the operation they need that because there's
not enough serious anoraks and genuinely informed connoisseurs to go around for all these bottles
and once you kind of lose your reputation it's very very hard
to get it back if you ever do just ask glendronic
third step whiskey clubs online whiskey clubs whiskey forums video whiskey sites
reddit whiskey sites facebook whiskey sites
some of the old timer well-entrenched review sites like myself at ralphie.com or you could go over to
whiskeyfun there is more availability of reviews of informed reviews on whiskey in 2002 than has
ever existed in the history of whiskey and to avoid bad purchases and your disappointment
make full use of this resource because the more you do the homework the more the bottles
of whiskey you buy are going to pass the quality control targets that you've set for them and the
less disappointed you are and the more your malt journey is filled with wonderfully tapestried
and rich moments there you go i'm ralphie hope you've enjoyed this click subscribe if
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