Best Whiskies of 2024: New Year's Special!

[@JeffWhisky]

Hope to return to the madness soon! Slap on chaps 🥃

[@agrainofmalt]

Happy new year, legends! Cracking drams ✨️👏

[@majordomo3]

Thank you for having the courage to stand up to the price complainers. I know that inflation has pinched most of us but I'm also tired of the constant price complaints and comparisons to a decade or more ago. Great show as always

[@jimmyjazz4605]

Splendid episode, chaps! Loved the difference of opinions and ranking the favourite bottles of 2024! Excellent stuff indeed, cheers 🥃

[@sorinsrn5442]

Lets get some popcorn and chips and lets watch 2+ hours about whisky. Perfect sunday. Yessir, im on it!!

[@chrisalexander6244]

Another great watch boys ! just been to Glengoyne Distillery this week and I agree with Jake the Whisky is definitely worth every penny !!

[@colinmcquade29]

the episode i look forward to most every year from you guys , need to try and grab a cadenheads sounds delicious great to see entry level drams featuring in the top 3 same as last year with Campbeltown loch

[@IanBear1000]

Get on the auctions 👌

[@highlandhamish9330]

My Saturday night viewing is taken care of......

[@chazchilly9697]

C’Mon!!! Watching on the 65” oled tucking into some drams with the boys 😉 Some classic banter, amazing drams, and the wife fell asleep so I guess I’ll pour another 😜

[@cujoguai4899]

At Barley to Bottle in October: 11 Year First Fill Bourbon 6 Year Refill Sauternes 10 Year Refill Port 11 Year Refill Rum 11 Year Refill Sherry 12 Year First Fill Sherry The surprise of the bunch for me was the rum, which I don’t typically enjoy. My previous trip everything was a bit older… my final bottle was 13 or 14 years and I believe it was a combo of bourbon, refill sherry and first fill sherry.

[@joetrigg5378]

2025: More and more podcasts please, would love a repeat style Campbeltown podcast with the four of you like you did after eat sleep dram repeat as that’s a go to for me

[@IanBear1000]

You might get what you wish for at some point 😂

[@joetrigg5378]

😂🙏 we’re going to the Malts Festival, 3 of us, borrowing my Fater in laws Campervan for the week so stopping off at Arran on route and can’t bloody wait! We did the Bottle to Barley in 2023 so would be great to do your battle of the barley episode that you were discussing! Have a good birthday mate and enjoy Campbeltown 💪

[@hannes1180]

Gentlemen... what a great episode... I had a blast watching it... you really made me curious regarding the Glengoyne Teapot Dram Batch 10... best regards from Germany

[@davidowen2834]

An awesome episode Gents. Loved watching it. On the back of your Glengoyne episode I went out and bought the white oak and I’m glad I did,a lovely dram. Looking forward to your 2025 content. Slàinte to you all. Happy new year.

[@IanBear1000]

Nice 👌 enjoy it

[@richardkilley6838]

Happy new year team

[@nottudyug]

Excellent episode Gents 👍🥃🫵

[@kyletaylor13]

Cheers for the Saturday nite drop - tucking into a christmas bottle, wife stocked the stocking with a big peat christmas cherry edition.

[@YurySimplyaboutwhisky]

Great whisky line up gents. Although I haven't tried all of the releases from this episode my whisky of the year in Springbank 21, and it's a really shame that because of some losers we have to pay for it ~ £380,- instead of £270,-. Really good episode and nice conversation. Gents - call any of your guests once again or bring new ones it's all the same to me, I'm personally enjoying every episode that I'm watching and thank you for that. Happy new year!

[@erwinweening709]

great way to spend a sunday afternoon. Great selection of whisky's. en nice to see you guys having fun. en posh and maccallan 🤣🤣 glengoyne and star trek 🤣 i like the sv 100 proof range. affordable en most are good quality. still waiting for a signatory episode 😉

[@IanBear1000]

Teapot Dram: First Contact 😂

[@ps3inquisition441]

Love these videos. The enthusiasm for quality whisky really comes through.

[@hoodwiser7652]

I don’t think the complaints are personally aimed at Glengoyne or the Teapot Dram, but more a general fatigue and disappointment at the whisky industry. Prices continue to rise, people are being asked to pay more (and have been continually since Covid), and there is a perception that a lot of distillery’s are pulling people’s pants down with regards to their pricing and the quality they are providing. The Teapot Dram might be great, but for a lot of consumers it’s the antithesis of an increasingly greedy industry - NAS, continual price rises, perceived drop in quality (batch 10 may have been great, but 9 wasn’t - is 140quid a fair price to take that chance?), and Glengoyne have been criticized by whisky drinkers for a reduction in quality (18 & 21), and a big increase in pricing (25 & 30 especially). The whole industry is at it, and I think consumers are getting a little weary of the industry’s shit to be honest. Like how many bottles can the average drinker buy and be expected to keep buying? How much outlay is acceptable for people increasingly feeling the squeeze? At some point people look elsewhere - you guys have even hinted at it yourselves when discussing ‘malternatives’ and how reasonably priced they are, despite age, compared to the egregious, exponential price increases associated with age statements in whisky. And I say this as someone who can comfortably afford the Teapot Dram - to me it’s a minor outlay, but to some I know it isn’t. For me I can understand why people have been critical of it, because I don’t like the lack of age statement either. It seems disingenuous, especially at that price. Just give the information about the bottle so people can have all the information before deciding, making it a NAS and then charging 140quid is just opening yourself up for criticism whether or not the quality justifies it. I would also say that the average whisky drinkers budget is significantly less than Ian’s and Jake’s, so proclaiming anybody aggrieved at the 140quid price tag as “cheap” comes across as a bit tone deaf. I like the passion, but I don’t think painting genuine criticisms as bitterness or cheapness is helpful. Looking at how the industry continues to gouge prices, I think honest discussion about how the industry is operating and how it is pricing its product is important. Final note: I paid significantly more than 140quid for the teapot dram batch 8, because I live in a country that basically doesn’t get it thus, when you find it, chunky mark up. Really good bottle, really enjoyed it, no issues with the quality of that batch, but no age statement (or any information about it at all) is asking for a leap of faith that, at that price, few will be willing to make. I think that is the big issue, more than the quality itself. Interesting episode, slainte Bottle of the year: Ballechin 19yr Manzanilla Cask

[@IanBear1000]

Great point well made, and that Ballechin is a banger 🎉

[@sorinsrn5442]

Spot on buddy!!

[@kirbycalgary2844]

I am commenting as I watch the video not after I’m done but that McAllen signatory 13 year-old I bought two of the first one I drank and and I really enjoyed I really enjoyed the sulphur note As I said I’m commenting as I watch it turns out the bottles that I bought are not the same as those but still I love them mine were 48%

[@kirbycalgary2844]

Great video guys speaking of Highland Park I just open theG &M 1995 Highland Park 27-year-old 59 percent for my birthday batch 22 f…in best whiskey I’ve tried I shared it with my daughter and her boyfriend and the owner of the restaurant we had dinner at he let me open it there have 3/4 of the bottle left going to savour it but have a back up and I know where there’s one more on the shelf maybe I’ll buy it cheers hope you have a great year . Paid $430 Canadian which is £240 what a fu -ing steal

[@bobsander4589]

Another banger of an episode guys. Nice to hear your thoughts on bottles that I've got open too! The White Oak is a lovely revelation and cheap to repurchase once gone. The stocking Filler is such as nice easy sipper and was lovely to have all over Christmas. The Signatory secret M was something special too. Got a springbank 21 from 2015 yet to open too. Bought and sank a bottle of the Glenallachie 9 oloroso so might need to try the fino now as well. You should try the Whisky Exchange old fashioned Christmas whisky for 2024 - a 15 year old speyside at 54.8%. Happy New Year!!

[@raeraeraeth]

Happy new year! Re high-priced bottles: I think we whisky geeks lose sight of the fact that for most people, a bottle of whisky is something you buy once a year, probably as a gift. Put it that way, £150 for an 18 year old whisky perhaps isn't so outrageous, and perhaps we can't expect everything to be presented at £50-or-less-shipping-included just because we have to have every release on our personal shelving unit. Perhaps some whisky was meant to be bought between friends, or something you go out and try at a bar.

[@WhiskySlayer-kw3hu]

Well with the enthusiasm shown for the Glengoyne white oak ,one order .Looking forward to trying it .😉

[@IanBear1000]

Well worth it ❤

[@ytbenny1964]

Hell ya….. giddy up, Glenallachie 10 batch strength run down. My takeaway from this podcast was don’t gripe about the prices, vote with your purchases and be comfortable staying within your means. Fantastic lineup gents and great commentary. All the best to everyone in 2025 and thanks for sharing in your passion.

[@IanBear1000]

Well said there 👌

[@TheWhiskyBloke]

There are different kinds of whisky, for different kinds of people, this different kinds of budgets.

[@joetrigg5378]

I’ve been waiting 4 days for this 😂🙏

[@timpowles7514]

Happy new year boys. The collective MacAllan cock ring bottling is just outstanding Stevie. Laughs out loud as always.. Cheers..

[@nickmarshall8436]

On the pricing I agree about voting with your wallet and letting the market decide. Yes prices are going up but the space is super competitive and people will just not buy it if they don't deem it worthy. Good example of a brand that went out too expensive: Arbike. Lovely liquid in my eyes but launched over £100. Now down to £75.

[@Dramdiary]

The audacity of Jayac to say he split it with “someone”. I have feelings you know bro.

[@Venetianization]

This is by far my favorite episode of the year! 😁 Does anyone in the comments have any experience with the Glengoyne cask strenght? Im curious about it.

[@IanBear1000]

It’s a good dram but if you can stretch to the teapot it’s a big step up 🎉

[@bobsander4589]

The 35 year old is £1200.on The Spirits Embassy!! I might go for the 17 though.

[@TheWhiskyBloke]

Glenallachie 35 is £1,200 on The Spirit Embassy

[@stevelandwonder4760]

Allegedly Signatory sold a lot of old Macallan back to them and these 13yo (and 17/18yo single cask) releases are the quid pro quo.

[@cookieMonsterSincho]

can we have a list of all this bottles here ?

[@uncutandunfilteredpodcast]

The Drams: Glengoyne White Oak Cotswolds Harvest Series Amber Meadow Cadenheads Wine Cask 28 Highland Park 1989 Port Finish Royal Mile Whiskies Highland Park 25 1993 Signatory Vintage Speyside (M) 13 Batch 25 Glenallachie 9 Year Old Fino Springbank 21 Glengoyne Teapot Dram Batch 10 Glenallachie Single Cask 2011 Oloroso 57.1% Springbank 25 Port Society Release Port Charlotte SYC:02 2009

[@cookieMonsterSincho]

@@uncutandunfilteredpodcast thanks alot !

[@gms201]

Bloody great episode. Not finished it yet but needed to comment. 😂. I love when Posh goes off on one about Macallan. The cock ring. So funny. There absolutely has to be a Springbank blend your own faceoff epsisode. The craic would be amazing and I agree with Stevie, all 8 bottles 2 each. Would be so good. Make it happen!! Regards to Springbank and the auction flippers, I think it’s the reasons that people feel aggrieved towards the distillery. I’ve never been lucky enough to get a bottle from a shop or website. Everything I’ve had has been a sample from someone or an auction. And you see when there’s been a release the auctions are flooded with it. So much Longrow red on there. It spoils it for so many people that want to drink it and creates a false impression of the distillery who actually sell it at an extremely fair price. Rant over.

[@gms201]

Just a quick add on. Current SWA auction. 30 Springbank 10yr and 57 cask strength 12yr. Piss take.

[@IanBear1000]

They can’t help that the flippers exist sadly - but a fair point! Let’s try and make the episode happen 🎉

[@gms201]

@ Oh it was absolutely not a dig at Springbank or the auction sites. Was aimed at the flippers. It is what it is unfortunately. Absolutely that challenge needs to happen!!! Will be epic!! 😬 You’ll have to come up with a prize for the winner although bragging rights may be enough. 🤣

[@mincey808]

Fair play to Jake - he stands by his opinions doesn't he 🤣. £140 for a NAS is expensive but it's delicious and I don't feel like I've overpaid (unlike batch 9!). So where do the complaints lie? Maybe because we equate price with age statements and we're conditioned to directly link value to age. Just like we're conditioned to turn our nose up at chill filtering. Or in some way we think we're being cheated or the distillery is being disingenuous. But at the end of the day a product is only worth what people are willing to pay for it. And the time it took for batch 10 to sell out suggests people are being more considerate with how they spend now and maybe are still burnt by batch 9 (and who could blame them).

[@sandymacdonald8485]

When the plebs whinge they are cheap, but when Posh complains its justified! 🤣

[@IanBear1000]

😂😂😂

[@hicksy771]

Just curious has Jake climbed down off his high horse yet?

[@TheWhiskyBloke]

Jake is 100% correct. There are far too many Jealous people & haters who complain about pricing because their budget doesn't allow them to buy a £140.00 bottle.

[@paintspot1509]

That's a little harsh. I would say the problem is that there is very strong competition at the £140 price point.

[@hoodwiser7652]

@TheWhiskyBloke nobody is jealous over a 140quid bottle mate, like I get it’s out of some peoples budget, but nobody’s looking at a Teapot Dram and being like “curse these opulent bastards who can afford such whisky splendor”, 140quid really isn’t such a lavish amount of money in this day and age.

[@TheWhiskyBloke]

@@hoodwiser7652 Some folk do.