Should You Drink Whisky Neat or With Ice? Let’s Settle This!

[@MeetPatel-cp9ri]

Great videos. You have a very good style of explaining

[@AsTheWholeWorldDies]

Please do whisky reviews! And while I'm doing requests I'd like to see a thorough video on bourbon as well!

[@stevewood4685]

Yes mate, reviews would be Good. It’s been a year or so since you ran through your shelf. Would be Good to see how the selection has morfed.

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Great to hear! Will have to do another

[@jameskennedy4222]

I was eyeing up the Glenlivet illicit still myself recently.

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

It’s a great one, especially compared to other Glenlivets I’ve had

[@MichaelC-qy4my]

Thanks Phil, always a nice and concise way of presenting your subjects. I really enjoy your work. Cheers from Montreal

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Thanks Michael!

[@Weialdlie]

Great video as always Phil, keep em coming. Currently enjoying some of the Glenlivet Caribbean Reserve over here. Cheers!

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Got the same bottle. Very easy to drink that one

[@rameslayer]

Dang, that blender's 1920 glass is next level for whiskey appreciation!

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Yeah the nose on it is incredible!

[@WhiskyLoversSociety]

Nice review and information. Well presented. Cheers

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Thanks!

[@royharley8401]

Epic content really enjoy it :) would love more reviews.

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Thanks Roy! Lots in the works now

[@dmitrii.zyrianov]

Hi! Just wanted to say that I really liked your new short version of intro

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Thanks!

[@pedropete52]

I would love to watch some whisky reviews on your channel. Work on your nosing and tasting vocabulary/terminology and you are golden!

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Thanks Peter! I have a few, but I need to do more. Grateful to have you watching!

[@TomTubbs]

Lovely intro video. Interesting to hear about the 1920's blender's glass - Glencairn seems the most used regularly in videos - but it sounds like you can get even more from the blender's glass (presumably to help blender's if they were using more diluted whisky to taste and smell?)

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Yeah I imagine that’s why they use it. It’s great for diving into the subtleties of a whisky. Can be impractical though.

[@joshbarr6390]

I noticed that I liked an old fashioned with say Johnny walker (red or black label) versus when I made it with a bourbon (Woodford reserve). I couldn't figure why it was so different. Thanks. But I use a premix mixer for old fashioned called barsmith. Might have to try it the old fashioned way ;)

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Thanks Josh! Yeah I was drinking it with bourbon for a while too, wasn’t until I tried it with a dryer scotch that I enjoyed it more.

[@raffaeletroiano1871]

Not being a mother tongue English speaker, although having a decent understanding of the language, I'm shocked that I didn't get the NZ accent...but now I can't unhear it

[@davidowen2834]

Enjoyable and interesting video Phil, don’t like cocktails, but yeah, from time to time I like a malt over an ice ball. Slàinte Phil.

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Thanks David! 🥃👍

[@holidayknife]

Good content as always, keep it up 👍

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Cheers! Appreciate that 🥃👍

[@boilerbonz]

Nice video. I like that you recognize drinking good blends, and some single malts, on the rocks is not a scotch sin, although it seems very awkward to drink from a tumbler with those huge ice cubes? Regardless, what about scotch & soda? It seems to me that's a unique 4th way to drink scotch since the only source of flavor is the scotch (and maybe a lemon twist), so it's very different from drinking a cocktail like the Old Fashion. And the flavors in some blended scotchs seem to react very well to soda. E.g., I wouldn't drink Dewars White Label neat but with equal parts soda and a little ice, the roughness goes away and the taste is that of a pleasant, albeit less complex, scotch that is very refreshing. But I would not put soda in a really good malt blend and I'd never drink a good single malt on the rocks for the reasons you explain.

[@heinerbenecke]

Hey Phil, are you coming down to Chch for DramFest?

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

All booked! You?

[@brunoxxmartins]

Nice review. I do like a nice old fashioned now and then. I usually use sugar syrup, but also use 2 whiskies, the founders reserve Glenlivet or Monkey shoulder (40ml) + Ardbeg 10 (20ml) to give it a smoke side. besides that the exactly same recipe, 3 dashes of Angostura bitter and a squeezed orange peel. Cheers. Keep doing these nice reviews.

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Oh I’m so trying that splash of Ardbeg in it this weekend. Great idea! Cheers 🥃

[@langesterguy]

@@FirstPhilWhisky I want to try a Smokey Islay, and I never had one before. Would you suggest the Ardbeg over the Laphroige?

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

How much whisky have you had? If not much, get the Laphroaig 10 (40%). If you are already used to the alcohol burn of whisky - go Ardbeg 10 (46%) I reckon.

[@langesterguy]

@@FirstPhilWhisky I didn’t even know Ardbeg was higher proof. That will greatly help my decision 🥃

[@maelpgt5327]

Hello sorry to disturb you. I'm searching answer about the tasting temperature of whisky and if it change from a whisky to another or for brandy i don't know.. And what about the decanting of a whisky, like did it need an aeration (micro-oxygenation) same as Wine or not ? If you have some responses to give I thank you in advance. Great job for the content by the way. See ya

[@whiskyvillage]

Please make a video of Irish whiskey and it's history.

[@eighty9]

Hey man, can make a video on rice whisky? Many people are talking about rice whisky these days. Really want to learn more about rice whisky.

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Yeah true. I actually had a bottle of Baiju which is the rice Chinese spirit. It’s interesting stuff and actually sells more than scotch!

[@peterfinucane8122]

Where did you get your 1920 Blenders Glass from?

[@heinerbenecke]

Try Whisky Galore in Chch. That‘s where I got mine a couple of years back.

[@sinelocum]

Reviews would be good

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Will do! Cheers Mark!

[@bertko1710]

Please do whisky reviews, thank you

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Thanks Albert! Will do

[@mendoboyana1915]

Its Whisky on the rocks dashed with tonic water for me.

[@OTEM47]

Please do reviews, mate!

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Will do. Thanks mate!

[@pacman1412]

That intro goes f**king hard 😄

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

😄

[@VinceW187]

Hold your horses!!! Add marmite to a wiskhey?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!

[@gavsdrams]

You pay the money you drink it how you like However in my home and i pour you a dram straight or a little water

[@owencoventry2435]

Whiskey in milk is actually very good

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Ha will have to try it!

[@keithwhitelock8127]

Great video. I'm catching up in all First Phil videos after recently discovering the channel. Question... where did you get that awesome Peat Smoke shirt?

[@mourbonaventure7475]

If you are pouring neat you need to put a drop of water in. You unlock the flavors that way. Kinda wasting the glass m8.

[@FirstPhilWhisky]

Agree! Water can open it up. It depends on the whisky though