509 - What's Over, Under or Properly Rated #2

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4.9 • 866 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This is one of my favorite types of episodes because this bourbon world is full of hype, flops, superstitions, and just weird stuff. We return to this beloved format of is something over, under, or properly rated. We ask if the iconic cocktail, the Old Fashioned, whiskey collections, MGP, cigar blends, speakeasies and more as we ask are these over, under, or properly rated? Show Notes: The Old Fashioned vs. Manhattan: cocktail preferences of whiskey enthusiasts Scotch: overrated or properly rated? Discussing MGP’s role in the market: reputation vs. reality The evolution of whiskey collections and wise collecting practices Cigar blends: a trend or a genuine innovation? Light whiskey: its place in the greater whiskey landscape The value of tasting flights and the allure of speakeasy bars Support this podcast on Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Instead of me actually doing the tasting, I kind of like the commentary.
0:02.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:03.3	And being like, Fred's really sweating.
0:06.2	What's we thinking here?
0:07.4	Yeah, and then, like I said, then you can pull the like, down go stack.
0:11.1	This is when fatigue sits in, folks.
0:13.0	Let's see.
0:13.4	Yeah. This is Bourbon Pursuit, the official podcast of Bourbon, bringing to you the best in news, reviews, and interviews with people making the bourbon whiskey industry happen, and I'm one of your host, Kenny Coleman.
0:37.2	So this kind of episode, it's one of my favorites, because this bourbon whiskey industry happen. And I'm one of your hosts, Kenny Coleman.
0:43.3	So this kind of episode, it's one of my favorites because this bourbon world, it's full of hype,
0:49.1	flops, superstitions, and just kind of weird stuff. And we returned to this beloved format of something that we called over, under, or properly rated. We did this on a past episode, and this time we bring new things to it.
0:56.8	We asked, like, what do you think of the iconic cocktail of the old-fashioned?
1:01.0	Is it under, over, or properly rated?
1:03.2	What about whiskey collections, MGP, cigar blends, speak-easies, and more,
1:08.0	and we go in to what we feel like they are rated?
1:10.8	With that, enjoy this week's episode, and now here's to what we feel like they are rated.
1:15.3	With that, enjoy this week's episode, and now here's Fred Minnick with Above the Char.
1:19.5	I'm Fred Minnick, and this is Above the Char.
1:28.6	This week's idea comes from Bruce Esposito, who writes me on fredminic.com.
1:34.6	Found North and Whistlepig, to name a few, have proven that Canada has amazing aged whiskey.
1:41.3	Why do so few Canadian distillers take advantage of this and release more of their whiskey as aged cast-strength,
1:45.2	non-chill-filtered, neutral color, or even single barrel.
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