hello malty multernative multiverses good one great little mom mentioned that
from sashidi or sashi day thank you sashi uh this is ralphie review 917 extras
in which i talk about extra things over and above single malt and other quality spirits reviews
that i do when it's just the round number and my last review was if tom until 14 year old
integrity bottling very interesting actually and i gave it a reasonable competent market i did
i think it was fair on it and that was ralphie review 917 well this is the extras now this is
where i discuss and deliver a little bit of observations informations and infotainment
over and above singular reviews and i kind of get a little bit more generalist and i
was in the supermarket a few days ago i don't normally go to this uk supermarket because i find
that the atmosphere when you're shopping there is very
stale no that's not quite the right word how about
bland yeah that would not be covered how about i conclude with saying that it's just awful
um and it's called tesco i very rarely shop there
but i did pop in to take a f to take a photograph actually um of the
whiskies that are on sale because supermarket sales of whiskey are a really good barometer
as to what consumers passive consumers are buying and how much they're paying for it
and i noticed that any whiskey with a big name um is being marked up significantly
and any whiskey which is perfectly good if not better that hasn't got such a a visible name
brand name and is more likely to be recently priced reasonably priced or even discounted
and as i was perusing i came across while obviously i'm wandering from the single
malt shelves into the blended shelves so the single malts are put high up in the shelves
so they're elevated they are nearer to heaven malt mates and you've got to look up and see the high
price tags and see well if it's up at the top of the shelf it's superior how very british to the
whiskey's down at the bottom of the shelf where you have to bend down to pick them up oh no i just
reach up and lift down the cherished the elite the desirable the um what's that word that they use
it's not it's not in demand
it's acquisitional yeah have you heard this oh the play of words there's a lot of magic in these
words by the way always be aware of that whenever you see the same phrase or words repeated three
times you're at the beginning or the end of something occult right just so you know anyway
there's nothing from the cult to the spiritual have you seen this let's get down to business
it's just what you've come for to see what i think of this this is fighting makai spirit drink
whoever thought the day would arrive when ralphie would be talking about a spirit drink
now to explain white and makai are makers of pretty standard full-flavored all credit to them
great for cocktails and mixing blended whiskey and this is white makai's light light nice and
red so you don't miss it spirit drink and it's a lighter spirit drink from scotland bottled
21.5 percent and you can buy it in tesco in the uk for 10 pounds 50 a bottle less than half the price
of some blends and most single malts what's not to like let's open this up
and read you a wee bit off the black label once a back back label don't want to mix the
brands up here i'll pour a little bit extra see because there's less of it
white and makai light a lighter spirit drink from scotland made from scotch
whiskey married with sherry oh wait my cat you got me there you got me there
crafted by the expert distillers
they took whiskey and diluted it with water
but they crafted it don't don't you forget that now know your place consumer
here is me steampunker i can't see this label for laughing
but hey i'm not i'm not laughing at it i'm laughing with it because this bottle's got
a great sense of humor crafted by the expert distillers at white makai the
spirit drink has been enriched by sweet sherry casks and freshly emptied bourbon barrels
it tastes great smooth and subtle hint of smoke smooth with clean my steam bunker with
a subtle hint of smoke perfect straight over ice or with your favorite mixer oh wonderful
wonderful and um you can buy in spain just as you know because there's a bit of spanish here
apart from that it says know your limits and the uk chief medical officers recommend that
adults do not regularly drink more than 14 units a week and i have to say adding our sound advice
i don't always follow that advice but some weeks and we certainly do
in case you're a little bit lazy to read the label they've got a nice little cardboard collar
that repeats some of the information on the label and what they've done in my opinion
it's my opinion i mean i could have asked white and mackay what they did i'm going to
have got a nice marketing reply uh probably to do with hand-picked selected bespoke and
all the rest of it but i'd rather just give you my take on it and you take what you wish but um smell
very pleasant it's simply whiskey diluted by about 50
and this is quite important because when you look at the price 10 pounds 50 someone who's maybe
in to buy a bacardi breezer or a cherry sours or a
bourbon bomb blaster something mixer drinker perhaps even some a kind of dragon super
monster you know that generation and i'm i'm just giving you a perspective
and they're saying oh that's cheap and it looks like whiskey and i don't like whiskey
because i prefer my bacardi breezes and my mango slushies and melon mega bombs with the bright
colors that when you switch the light out the glow in the dark that sort of stuff so they might buy
a bottle of this because it's not as expensive as that whiskey and they smell it and they taste it
and it's really quite pleasant
in fact it's really not that bad at all for a dilute whiskey for the amount of dilution
that's taken place it's got i have to say i've had worse whiskies than this
it's nothing much in the finish because it's been heavily diluted but what they've done is they've
taken the whiskey cut it with water significantly and then they've given that little bit extra
sherry and bourbon influence in their own secret recipe however they do it and it works for 10
pounds 50 a bottle you're getting a very decent palatable great little mixing shoot style drink
where you can bang the glass in the bar and knock it back in a winner and you won't start choking
so for for very for young drinkers who are inexperienced in drinking and drinking and don't
mind making a fool of themselves in bars it's going to actually be quite a civil actually quite
an impressive option to some of the other dreadful concoctions that are paying very good money for
i was at a restaurant earlier in the year
and the people next to me in the restaurant were buying cocktails
and the price they were paying for what they were getting
i couldn't laugh on the outside but i was pushing my pants laughing on the inside
honest honestly once people have had a few drinks they can become very very gullible as
regards price of things particularly when they're using the card and just doing a swipey swipey
what's the actual taste of this
multi cherish semi-sweet lightly sweet not imposing
it's got that white makai note to it and i have to say that the casks involved in this are
actually pretty decent by modern standards um i'm surprised but there you go you guys shouldn't be
pre-judgmental about things and the reason they can sell this i want to say this at the moment
just to get out of the way in case i forget the reason they can sell this for 10 pounds
50 a bottle is because excise duty tax pure tax is based on the volume of alcohol in the bottle
so by reducing the volume of alcohol the virtually half the tax thresh tax demand
from eight pounds 40 or whatever it is for a standard bottle to for about four pounds
24 pounds 30 and that by the way is is a huge difference as regards profit making a reasonable
profit out of the drink for the distillers and helping them um put this in the market
at what is a very competitive price and i commend waiting makai for it you know hey i'm impressed
but um it really tastes like a decent blend to which you've added about 50
water and then you've let it rest so it no longer tastes diluted it tastes diluted
married and it's what you call blender strength roughly because blenders when they're
nosing and tasting whiskeys they need to get to the core of them what they're what they're
dealing with very very quickly so they put a lot of water water in to really bring the
to tone down the alcoholic nip and distraction to get at the core flavors that are being knocked
off by the alcohol so many blenders will be nosing and tasting at roughly 20 alcohol anyway um and if
you're adding ice hey this is what you're gonna get from your whiskey sure it may have a little
bit more flavor but that's been compromised by the coldness of the ice um cooling the drink
and killing the flavor this is why a lot of white wines are served chilled because if you had them
at room temperature they would taste horrible all that acidity you know it's true one more tasty
if you were introducing a young person to whiskey and you didn't want to frighten them
you could give them a glass of this and you could not go wrong clean fresh flavoursome
sure it's loaded with caramel but it's a blend it's a spirit drink blend which is absolutely
fine so i'm not in my high horse for this one it's fun i'm glad i bought it it's been a good hoot
absolutely and i don't see many people even going out their way to to review this in any way um but
i am and um as a a seasoned old single malt drinking hack that tends to go for single cask
single malts presented with integrity strength and delivery um if i was to give this a spirit drink
mark out of 100 i'd give it a good solid 85. simple is that hey i'm alfie in the bothy hope
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