Made my own with a diff recipe and it is the bomb, used a simple sugar syrup though and I used whole dried peppers...accidentally left those in too long, man it'll make your head sweat with a shot...going to try it again and next time not leave those in any where near what I did last time lol.
+Joseph Benavidez I really like Evan Williams actually. But you're not going to find anything AMAZING at this price point. I am more of a scotch guy anyways.
+Joseph Benavidez If you like Jim Beam, check out Old Grand Dad 100 Proof, Wild Turkey 101, and WL Weller. All tasty bourbons and none are very expensive.
Not IMO, cinnamon isn't soluble in alcohol (or water). So you'd just have to filter out the tiny cinnamon particles anyway (or drink them I guess). But if you put a equal amount of ground cinnamon to the 5 sticks he used and did not filter it out you'd probably have something that wasn't drinkable and would be inventing a new kind of cinnamon challenge:)
My guess is that fireball is actually made by adding a simple syrup to the whisky. And that's why it is taken down to 66 proof as opposed to the whisky base of 80 proof. So you could make a cinnamon infused simple syrup, add that to a Canadian Whisky and you'd have something closer to the real thing. Though IMO this vid gives a much better recipe bc I think Evan Williams is probably better than whatever cheap(?) base Canadian whisky FB uses.