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Looking to give the whiskey drinker in your life a gift they'll love? Here are my recommendations for top whiskey accessories and complimentary gifts to give this Holiday Season.
0:00 Best Whiskey Accessories
0:41 Craft Cocktail Bitters
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1:39 Cocktail Smoker
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2:17 Everest Whiskey Glasses:
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3:10 Inflatable Bottle Shippers
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4:04 Aged&Ore Travel Decanter:
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Hey everyone, welcome to Bourbon Bites, whiskey reviews with a gaming twist
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I'm Clifton, and today I'm giving you five accessories to give as a gift to your favorite
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whiskey-loving person. So if you missed my video last week, I showed five bourbons that I recommend
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giving as gifts at five different price points, so if you missed that, I'll put a link to it up
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here. I know I have gotten several whiskey accessories as gifts that I appreciated the
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thought, but they weren't really what I needed. Let's be honest, no one needs any more whiskey
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stones. Either they have them already and love them, or they've gotten them as a gift and they've
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tried them and they're not their thing. With that aside, here are my five recommendations for gifts
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for whiskey lovers. So first up on my list are cocktail bitters. Now, there are a lot of different
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brands and, you know, styles of cocktail bitters. I recommend doing something other than Angostura
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bitters. Those are probably the most common ones. They probably already have them, but there are so
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many different craft brands that are creating amazing cocktail bitters that can elevate any
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cocktail. One of my favorites lately has been these Fee Brothers Black Walnut Bitters. Now I
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got these at Total Wine but these are available on Amazon along with several other amazing brands
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including some barrel-aged bitters. Now even if there's someone that doesn't make cocktails on
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the regular they will appreciate having these because there always a time where you have friends over family over and you enjoy making them a good old If you haven had a chance to try these black walnut bitters I highly recommend them I think they changed how I make an old and I typically use these more often than Angostura
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bitters with that one. Now these, along with the other recommendations, I do have affiliate links
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down in the description below. I would absolutely love if you could use the affiliate link. It really
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does help the channel, and I appreciate the support. Speaking of cocktails, the second
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recommendation on my list is a cocktail smoker. Now this is something that I didn't realize I
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needed until I tried it. But what you do is stick this piece on there and fill it with wood chips
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Now you can buy these at your local hardware store. I bought these on Amazon. These are apple wood
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smoked chips. But you turn this on and you light the wood chips and it smokes a cocktail
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flawlessly. Now I've had some amazing smoked cocktails. One of the best was an old-fashioned
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at Hell's Kitchen in Las Vegas. Seriously, they go all out. So if you want to buy like a box like
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you're seeing here, definitely check that out. There's some of those on Amazon. But this one is
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the one I bought. It's about 25 bucks, so I'll put a link to that down in the description below
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Now the next set on my list is a set of whiskey glasses that I actually discovered on Kickstarter
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So these are the Everest Crystal Whiskey Glasses, and what they can do is they can chill your drink
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in 18 seconds or less. It uses this really cool design of Mount Everest, and if you put it in the
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freezer, it will maintain the chill. Seriously, I absolutely love the design of these. I think it's
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really cool and it a great gift for someone that may be transitioning from drinking whiskey on the rocks to drinking whiskey neat Now you can also order a set that comes with this really cool decanter which y know I love decanters when it comes to infinity bottles I love making my own blends doing my own thing Now full disclaimer these probably won ship
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until early next year, but it's always a great idea to include a printout of the Kickstarter
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pledge and show them that, you know, this really cool gift is coming down the line. I don't think
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that's a bad idea at all. I would much rather receive something that's really thought out and
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something really cool like that than just, you know, your basic set of rocks glasses. So just an
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idea if it's something that you think they would be really interested in. So the next item on my
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list, I actually thought I had some around here, but I need to place an order for this right now
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and that is inflatable whiskey or wine shippers. So I'll put up a picture of them here, but they
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are a very affordable and perfect accessory to a whiskey bottle that you may give them as a gift
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for the holidays. I know every time I travel home for the holidays, I always hit up a bunch of
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different liquor stores looking for bottles that I can't get out here in Southern California. So I
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always make sure I have a set of these to bring bottles home. All you do is put the inflator in
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it, pump it up, and there you go. Perfect padding for your whiskey. Now, I've been using these for
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several years. I've ordered several packs of them, and I have not had a single broken bottle yet
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There are a lot of different brands of them out there. I'll put one down in the description below that I've bought before, but especially if you're buying them a special bottle for the holidays
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and you know they're flying in, I guarantee you they're really going to appreciate having this
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because they going to be worried that entire flight home that something going to happen to So the final item on my whiskey accessory recommendations has to go to this aged and ore travel decanter So I actually backed this on Kickstarter last year but I gotten so much use out of it As you can probably tell by the
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amount of dings and scratches on it, but that's totally okay. So this decanter comes with these
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pieces that protect it, but these are also really cool. They have a measurement for two ounces in
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here. So if you're taking a road trip or just a day trip to the beach, you have a really nice
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to canter here, like I said, this has been a bit used, but it's also been a lifesaver when we're
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taking road trips. These walls are super insulated, so it keeps your drink cold. What we've actually
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ended up doing a lot of times is we'll pre-make a cocktail and put it in here. Then when we get
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down to the beach, we open it up, pour it into the cups that are also included and part of the package
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and have a great time just using this small thing that you can put down in your beach bag. This is
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the perfect gift for someone that wants to bring their whiskey or cocktails on the go. So these
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aren't my recommendations for top whiskey accessories to give to someone in your life
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If you happen to like these or have any other suggestions, please let me know in the comments below. I would love to hear them because I'm always looking for gift ideas to give my family
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so I don't get more whiskey stones. But until next time, this has been Bourbon Bites
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whiskey reviews with a gaming twist. I'm Clifton, cheers and happy holidays
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