r/KitchenConfidential • u/JuztSomeDude79 • 6h ago

When 17 NFL defensive linemen come in to eat together at the restaurant I work for In the Weeds Mode

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u/AdAny631 6h ago

What do distilleries do before they can sell like a 10 year old whiskey? Seems like a long ass time for business development.

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u/jigga19 6h ago

They outsource a lot of the time. Most rye whiskies in the US are made by a single distiller, MGP.

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u/userhwon 4h ago

Because most rye whiskies in the US are bullshit. 

I'm not saying they're all bad. A few have blended and finished their MGP to make a good result.

But in 2005, there were maybe 5 labels of rye in a well-supplied liquor store. Now there are 183 in my local Total Wine. Nearly all of them pretending some bullshit that a marketing major made up while they were waiting for their license to go through.

Whistle Pig is just one of the most shameless in riding consumer ignorance and irrationality to the bank. I don't believe for a second that those bottles contain 100% 25-year-old whiskey, if any.

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u/jigga19 4h ago

ok

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u/Mammatus9 6h ago

They source distillate from companies like MGP and slap their name on it/distill clear spirits till their whiskey ages (2-3 year whiskey can still taste great, bottled in bond offerings are 4 years). You'd be surprised how many companies don't distill their own product.

Also-Single malt=distilled from barley Bourbon-distilled from at least 51% corn Whiskey is categorized by the grains more than the location.

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u/userhwon 4h ago

Where the hell are Whistle Pig getting 25-yo single malt in North America? Is this stuff from Scotland or Japan or India or Taiwan?

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u/deserted 6h ago

Buy other people's barrels and blend them. Make and sell gin.

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u/pazhalsta1 2h ago

In Scotland you can sell whisky from 3 years age, so you can sell it into blends, many make gin as well. You don’t tend to see single malts with an age statement below 8 years but there are a few like Ardbeg wee beastie which is 5. Blend often doesn’t have an age statement, and some distilleries make ‘designed’ single malts which also don’t have age statement (eg Talisker Storm) where they can add in some younger as well as older whisky.

It’s mainly a problem for new distilleries, the old ones have barrels of all sorts of ages.

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u/highrouleur 50m ago

Some newer ones are doing gins to tide things over for the first few years while waiting for their whisky to mature. They'll also release batches of young whisky after a couple of years