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I was challenged by Adriana at Whiskey Mountains to do the 5 Rye Whiskey Challenge. Here are my picks for each occasion.
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You only need 5 whiskeys, rye edition
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Hey everyone and welcome to Bourbon Bites Whiskey Reviews with a gaming twist
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I'm Clifton and today I have been tagged to do the 5 Whiskey Rye Whiskey Challenge
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Big shout out to Adriana at Whiskey Mountains who tagged me in this. Go check out her channel, tell her I sent you
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But yeah, this is the latest edition. I've done two of these so far. But this one is all rye whiskey
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So there are five occasions in this challenge where you may need a rye whiskey, so these are my recommendations
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The first whiskey in this challenge is, of course, your daily sipper. For me, this actually changes a lot with rye whiskey, but lately, I've been really loving Wild Turkey 101 rye
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It used to only be available in liter bottles or larger. Thankfully, they now have a 750ml version, which actually is a lot more affordable
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I think this was $24. But yeah, it's just a freaking solid good rye whiskey
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At 101 proof, it offers a lot just being a daily sipper, but it's also fantastic in a good old-fashioned or Manhattan cocktail. Now, as with other wild
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turkey rye products, it's not really a high rye rye. So if you're a bourbon drinker, I think this
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is a very approachable one. If you're trying to get into rye, this is one that'll kind of give you
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that rye spice, but won't blow your palate away with like some ryes do. The next category is a
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cheap mixer. Now for me personally, I don't typically buy a cheap rye to be a mixer. If I do
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it will be something like Diggle Rye which of course is young MGP rye Don have any on that because I think when I want a rye cocktail I want it to be like I said an old or a Manhattan So if I not using Wild Turkey 101 I either
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using Sazerac rye from Buffalo Trace or Rittenhouse rye from Heaven Hill. Both right around $20
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but I think that's the perfect price point for a mixer. I'm not going to typically mix my rye
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with like Coke or lemonade or anything like that. I'll stick to a bourbon or an American whiskey for that. So for me currently, it's got to be Sazerac rye. This one's a little bit harder to
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find in some areas. It was $22 where I got it. But yeah, sometimes hard to find if you can't find it
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Rittenhouse Rye by Heaven Hill is an awesome alternative. The next whiskey on this list is an
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impress your guests whiskey. This is the bottle that you pull out when you know you got your
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whiskey loving friends over. What are you going to grab for me? It's got to be Kentucky Owl Rye
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This is actually batch two, which is 11 years old. There's a few other batches, batch four being the
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latest. But yeah, I think this one is actually gifted to me from a friend, which makes it even
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more special, but a lot of people have wanted to try Kentucky Owl. It's harder to find. It's also
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a very high entry price. I think this is like, what, $180? But yeah, I think this is a really
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good one to impress your guests, show them a bit of what a premium rye can be. Plus, this bottle
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is pretty damn sexy. Whiskey number four is a Friday night pour. Y'all know this means you're
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about to go hard, go big, and with me, lately, again, lately, it's been Wilderness Trail Rye
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This one's 110 proof, but there are store picks that get even higher proof than that, I believe
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Such a really complex rye It something that you really want to pour a glass and sip on it and think on it a while It currently Sunday night but you know what I think there some time for some wilderness trial rye On the nose there is no denying this This is a rye whiskey a lot more
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so than the Wild Turkey 101 I was drinking earlier. There's still a lot of sweetness from the corn
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obvious on the nose. Let's see how it does on the palate. Cheers, guys. Gonna do a little whiskey mountain shimmy there. This is so good. It's so rich and bold and spicy
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Even though it's only 56% rye, there are big, bold flavors in this whiskey
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And like I said, it's something you want to sip on for a while. So it's not something you want to just down like your daily drinker maybe
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Sometimes, of course. And finally, we are down to our fifth whiskey recommendation of this rye whiskey challenge
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This is your personal special occasion bottle. I know some people are going to put their BTAC here
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They're going to put their Pappy Van Winkle rye. I'm gonna pick something that's almost as hard to find but only because it's so limited to me
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It's got to be mcdeer's toasted barrel rye now. This is the 2020 batch. I do recommend the original batch
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I think it was late 2017 early 2018 that one I think is the superior product
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But still this 2020 release when I saw it in my store. It hit my store for about 90 bucks
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I bought three of them. I seriously I love this stuff so much and if you can't find this one
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There is the barrel strength rye. Very, very good too. Honestly if I couldn find this I would be almost just as happy with that one But because I bought three of these this is my current special occasion rye whiskey And since I recording this only a couple days after going through to the next round of Mad Madness of course over on ADHD Whiskey channel
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I think that's a cause for a special occasion for, what do you say? America. I've always wanted to
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say that. So this particular bottle is 108.6 proof, but could you look at the color on that
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It's absolutely gorgeous. If you don't know, with this release, they do some extra toasting
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on some barrels that they put the whiskey into, adds a lot of that toasted marshmallow
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note, which is, y'all know, my favorite note on a whiskey. Oh yeah, just on the nose, you get that sweet, charred element, but lots of marshmallow fluff
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goodness too. So cheers to round two. Coming for you, Perry. That is fantastic
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It's nothing like what you would kind of expect from a typical rye. I think that toasty, smoky kind of note is the dominant flavor here, but it's something
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that I consider one of my favorite notes, like I said. I am highly honored to consider this my special occasion of war
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So those are my five whiskeys you need. So now's the time for me to challenge someone else
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And who better to challenge than my upcoming competitor, Perry Ritter from This Is My Bourbon Podcast
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Perry Bear, are you up for the challenge? Let's see it. Thank you all so much for watching
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This has been Bourbon Bites Whiskey Reviews with a gaming twist. I'm Clifton. Cheers
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And I'll see you guys next video
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