"Welcome to RWF, we're going to choke back cheap Canadian horse wizz from PET bottles. In the unlikely event that you want to get your hands on them, they're in the dumpster out back so help yourself."
Rex complaining that there is "a job" that needs to be done while mooching whiskey, is the world coming to an end? Also, I imagine that this is the most Daniel has ever died on the inside.
I thought that was just used for mixing with coke/soda because my first experience with it was just burning alcohol sensation. Admittedly, that was also before I had any experience tasting spirits and attempting to note the nuances in flavor and learning which ones were cheap, enjoyable etc.
@@wasabista1613 yeah I don't know between that and the tasting notes that I've searched for with a very highly sensitive sense of smell and I can't find it I'm starting to wonder if I even care to watch the stuff anymore
@@counselthyself2591Except it's not and legally fits the definition of Canadian whisky. US-Canada trading rules mean that if a product is sold in the US and it is labeled as "Canadian whisky" then _it has to meet the Canadian legal definition of 'Canadian whisky' even if it isn't sold in Canada._ We export low-quality crap to the US but it still fits in the category of Canadian whisky.
@@counselthyself2591No, it's not a loophole, look up the legal definition of Canadian whisky for yourself. It allows for barrel-aged neutral grain spirits as part of Canadian whisky, absolutely no need to lean on the 9.09% rule which is for alcohols external to the definition of Canadian whisky. Never mind the article, I've read the actual laws governing this and I am telling you that you are misapplying the wrong part of the legal code. Look it up for yourself: Food and Drug Regulations (C.R.C., c. 870), B.02.020 [S]. (1) Canadian Whisky, Canadian Rye Whisky or Rye Whisky A distillery can distill neutral spirit from cereal grains, age it in barrels for three years, and call it a whisky and there's nothing in the Food and Drug Regulations that says they can't. Canadian whisky regulations are a lot less strict than you seem to think, and it's what gives the entire Canadian whisky industry the international reputation of being cheap well whisky because the majority of large-industry mass market products are exactly that, based on a backbone of neutral grain spirit.
@@counselthyself2591Yup, that's how it can work and in the case of the giants often does work. But it doesn't _have_ to be that way so don't think that this is how all Canadian-produced whisky is made. I'm just talking about the biggest mass-markets, the sort of brands that distill 100,000L of spirit before lunchtime. When you're working at that scale you need some way of standardizing your output and that's with neutral grain spirit with flavouring whiskies blended over top. And in the case of really crappy exports to the US, the big distilleries never throw a barrel of whisky away, they just downgrade it into cheaper and cheaper brands until they find a use for it. Eventually that ends up being "bottom-shelf export to the US for a few bucks" and it ends up in a terrible-cheap-bottle roundup like this episode. I personally prefer craft bottlings like Shelter Point, who do not use neutral grain spirit both because of professional pride and because of the BC craft distillery regulations I mentioned earlier that prohibit using neutral grain spirits. Much more expensive than a bottle of Canadian Club but much more care also goes into the product.
@@counselthyself2591The law says they could blend US neutral grain spirits in, but the historical context of the 9.09% rule was to loophole around a US protectionist tariff against Canadian whisky and that hasn't been in effect for at least a century, so there's no tax break to be had in the modern day. The trading relationship between Canada and the US is completely different now, so there's zero benefit to adultering Canadian whisky with aged neutral grain spirit, unless the result tastes good. Don't overthink this. The 9.09% rule rarely gets used and when it does it's to create interesting products, usually in small batches that only have distribution within Canada. For example, Forty Creek Foxheart is Canadian whisky blended with 10-year-old Jamaican rum, and I've bought several bottles because it's my go-to on the rocks drink on a hot summer day. Bearface has also toyed with the 9.09% rule, having released in the past a bottling called Bearface One Eleven with 2-year-old mezcal commissioned specifically for that blend. Another bottling is Bearface Wilderness Series 01 which was made with barrels that aged in a shipping container in the woods (not too unusual) and one of the barrels was infused with matsutake mushrooms for a week for earthy umami flavours, making this mushroom-infused barrel legally NOT WHISKY and only usable in the blend thanks to the 9.09% rule. Canadian Club even quietly made use of the 9.09% rule to blend in small amounts of sherry, cognac, and younger Canadian rye to puff up the flavour profile of the 41-year-old one-off Chronicles release. The REALLY CHEAP Canadian whisky featured in this episode is not bending the rules or pulling any underhanded stunts. It's just... really cheap, and it's really cheap because it's bad. No sneaky messing around with the 9.09% rule, it's just cheap bad whisky being exported to the US so bars have cheap commodity whisky for cocktails.
Best episode ever. Daniel's face was like a sorority girl doing the walk-of-shame and Rex was like her friend that wants to talk about last night and relive it.
While the "from the bottle" lulz are great, shouldn't Daniel have provided red Solo cups for the frat boy experience? Do a 'How Do You Solve a Problem like Canadian Mist" episode. Rex can do it in song to the tune of Maria from The Sound of Music.
Gotta respect the “2 dog hunter” as my father in-law lovingly calls his Canadian Hunter whiskey. He can’t remember what it’s called, but knows what’s pictured on the bottle.. 😂 The idea of stringing bottles to the ceiling and layering the floor takes me back to my submariner days. That is literally what we did with food cramming it anywhere possible, as food for the crew is actually the only item that limits how long a sub can stay underway/submerged. We strung bags of food, potatoes, etc to the ceiling, and lined the floor with canned food with a plywood layer for easier walking. Don’t miss those days one bit!
I sat down to lunch early and didn’t have the daily video to watch while I eat. So I sat here like an idiot for four minutes staring at my food waiting for 11:00 and the video to drop. Cool story. I know. Cheers!
This is my favorite Rare Whiskey Friday yet. This is really funny, growing up I had a lot of people that drank plastic canadian whiskey. Rich and Rare, Canadian Mist, Black Velvet, etc. You can’t even fix this stuff with most cocktails.
@@allencapone956 so does my sister, prefers it to any bourbon I’ve given her from basic Jim Beam to Eagle Rare 17. Scotch she spat in the sink so I gave up on that. She liked BV and Tequila.
Best episode so far.... Loved that you drank them "as god intended" I think a 'cairn would have exploded if the Canadian spirit would have touched it. Someone mentioned using Solo cups, also not a good idea as they surely would have melted from whatever Canada uses they claim is whisky. I grew up with Canadian whisky, as my parents were not heavy drinkers and just had some in case friends came over..... Now i know why we never had any people visit..... Over the years I was not really a whiskey drinker either, a good beer with friends now and then. One day a few years ago, I found the whisky videos here on the tube and learned about bourbon and what REAL whisky is all about. One day I was cleaning a shelf in the basement and found a bottle of Canadian Club unopened, Thought to myself, Oh hell no and tossed it in the trash bucket and out it went.
So many great things in this episode. Daniel just saying screw it and drinking straight out of the bottle. Rex aerosoling whiskey. Daniel just squeezing bottle and spraying onto the floor after Rex says to do nosings. Rex trying to be the 'responsible and stay on task' one (never thought that would happen) and saying they have a job to do here and Daniel just responding 'NO.' just so great. Also I've definitely had those days or been given those types of tasks where it is just, nope, not gonna happen. (They never involved drinking whiskey though, lol)
As Canadians, after seeing the successful results of sending Celine Dion, Nickelback and Justin Bieber south of the border, we realized we could just keep exporting disasters down instead of dealing with the consequences of our failed experiments
I hate laughing so much as I can recall my Dad having a bottle of Canadian Club in the cabinet and regret massively never buying him a good Irish or two. Will raise a toast to him tonight.
There should be a homeless edition episode, where u go to tent city under a bridge and ask them what they like to drink, and give them nice expensive ones vs cheap ones
The budget scene is because our whiskey costs 2.5 times as much as in the USA. You say these are available for 10$ but the cheapest whiskey at my liquor store is 30$. I just watched an episode with Michters ( I think somebody said 35$ ) and here it's 90$! I read an article recently that an ordinary Canadian whiskey can be made for 7$ a bottle but sells for 35$ after taxes. Not many aficionados here ( unless you can afford it ), just looking for a drink. I picked up a bottle of Buffalo Trace here today for 42$. Beer is even worse, my local beer store sells the cheap stuff for ( 24 bottles of Busch ) 39.50$ for a 24 pack, cans are even more money. Cigarettes are 120$ to 160$ a carton!! When you are stuck in the winter with nothing better to do . . . This is what free health care costs y'all!! lol
Cheap Canadian whiskey is designed to mixed in cocktails and even then it’s cheap for a reason!! I drink Gibsons 12yr and coke when I’m mixing whiskey drinks. It’s a few dollars more but well worth the expenditure!
As someone who has tried (a sample bottle of) Canadian Mist, I was really looking forward to seeing their reactions. Canadian Club at least tastes like whiskey. Canadian Mist tastes like the sort of chemicals the Joker would fall into a vat of.
I forgot Canadian mist existed. When I was young (five years old, and I'm sixty-four now) my parents had parties every Saturday night. They always drank cocktails made from four roses (their cocktail was one oz. of whiskey, one maraschino cherry topped off with mountain dew in a ten oz plastic tumbler) One weekend they replaced the four roses with Canadian mist. They felt it was fancier because it was imported! And yes I was bar tending at five.
And as a Canadian, I've never actually seen a bottle of it on the shelves. Now... Signal Hill... There's a whiskey worth trying out if you get a chance.
Daniel: F@&k it, we’re going to drink these out of spite. Rex: but……we have a “job” we have to do. Loving the work ethic fellas, what doesn’t kill you….
Great fun! Your comments are bang on, but as two guys running a whisky marketing school you do realize that if Americans didn't buy this crap, Canada wouldn't produce it, especially in the quantities that you refer to. Hell, I toured the Crown Royal distillery in Gimli, Manitoba, and was told that your own state of Texas drinks more Crown Royal than any other place in the world, with Texans buying more CR than Jack Daniels or Jim Beam. It's really a pallet issue, not one of production. Supply follows Demand.
I strongly recommend that the Wizard Academy or Vault should get those gibbets or Medieval torture iron cages, and then put the Cheap Canadian series and/or Peter Golden's bottom shelf series in them, hanging them outside one of the building, put the MB title on the cages to honor their generosity and the fun they bring us...
I've been watching you guys for many years and love this channel. However, in this episode you're acting like Whiskey Snobs and need to understand what you can do to facilitate the challenge of tasting cheap Canadian Whiskey. I'm from the Detroit area and KNOW cheap Canadian Whiskey. So what did we do with it? We made high-ball (like 7&7's and Vernors & C.C.) AND we mixed Manhattans. I still really enjoy a well-made Manhattan from time (even over a good Bourbon). So please consider picking up all the plastic bottles you Daniel threw on the ground and do an episode about how to properly make cheap Canadian Whiskey into something you can enjoy.
It's so kinda ironic that when I describe Jack Daniels the way Daniel describes Canadian anything-in-a-plastic-bottle, I sound like a snob first class but when they do it it's great fun! They're absolutely right tho.
Does the vault have enough bottles to do a Trader Joe’s white label episode? They have one surprisingly good single malt and many surprisingly bad ones.
I have to say, I started with Canadian whiskey (Black Velvet, if you please). It was pretty fair at getting my palate used to higher proof coming off being a beer guy. Little Sweet. Little malty. Then I moved into Irish, Speysides, Bourbon and so forth. But I have gone back a time or two with a few Canadian ones and they can be nice. Like Ellington Reserve at Total Wine. Only $15 out here as an 8 yr age statement. It wasn't bad. Very close to a brandy as a matter of fact.
If you don't hate ryes and you can get your hands on Lot 40, there's a quality Canadian 100% rye that's accessible and affordable at least in Canada. The warm rye spice lingers, good for pouring into coffee or hot chocolate after coming in from the cold as well as being his for neat/on ice pours.
As a Canadian, I have never seen ANY of these bottles. I don't even think I've ever seen you guys do Wisers, and that's the basic bar staple. To be fair, my fave Canadian whiskeys are all from smaller local distillers and you're not likely to find them in the states, especially not the southern states. We have Lentil and Quinoa whiskey in my province!
IDEA!! All of that Canadian plastic bottled crap, down to the bar... have the master mixologist come up with a cocktail that uses that shite effectively as possible and name it "The William Shappert Shite Show" cocktail!
That was great! William, I’m going to send you a whole bunch of crap. Daniel, oh we’re doing this. F U William. Rex trying to hold the whole thing together. Just step back Rex.
After watching Daniel waterfall whiskey from plastic bottles into his mouth I almost started pouring my beer into my mouth instead of drinking it from the glass; would have been a horrendous mess if I did pour it. Lucky I caught myself in time XD. Anyways, hilarious episode and cheers to you MBs watching it.
Somebody suggested "F---ing Bastard." I have to say Peter Golden and Mr. Schappert have reached that legendary status. Either that or Brown Paper Bag of Whiskey, with a Hobo graphic.
Oh God Canadian hunter. I'm unfortunately familiar with this one. A buddy brought a bottle over the day he turned 21. We drank it all ourselves over multiple games of Texas hold em, and I woke up at 3 in the morning on my back porch, in my underwear, with my guitar in my lap.
Along with Olde Whittington Rye and Cornbread Williams Bourbon, blend all of the cheap canadian whiskies and release it as “Crowded Canadian.” With that said, am I the only one here that likes Canadian whisky (that is over $25 for a bottle)?
the main reason for the huge budget scene is the price of alcohol (200% sin tax), and historically was a very alcohol driven country. the cheap stuff is just what sold well and sadly beat out a lot of great brands and blends. same with our beer scene.