I’ve been challenged to a FIGHT over BOURBON

[@WhiskeyTribe]

i need to lay down and take a nap after this satirical slap fight. 😂 Visit helixsleep.com/whiskey to get up to $200 off your Helix mattress, plus two free pillows.

[@meesternibbles]

My mattress should show up tomorrow! Excited and hopeful it helps improve my sleep and back pain.

[@robzilla69]

Watching you grovel before the world's greatest whiskey taster is awesome! 😂

[@JulieLike_]

As a fan of both channels, but to be transparent, Matt Porter’s # 1 fan, I have to say, this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen and cheers to you Rex for starting 2022 off with the best comedic comeback ever! Perfection!!!!

[@IndpndntJoe]

😂🥃

[@NorthWestBourbon]

👏👏😆

[@pbjtime0]

Julie Like. What a legend.

[@IC86]

Julie Like to referee the fight!

[@trZachJones]

I’m Dan Likes #1 fan

[@Daniel-zq3wq]

"Matt is a mouthpiece for big wood" Sooo close to actually spitting out my coffee

[@olethanatos8173]

I think it is interesting about the historical perspective of how Rex says the new oak requirement came about. I write "Rex says" as sometimes I am not 100% sure I know when he is trying to slide in real facts to his long-standing making fun of something. If this is true it is truly just one more way people with money and influence have impacted our way of life. (I wrote a paper on hemp versus lumber in college and why lumber companies lobbied congress against hemp.) Begrungliy I will have to side with Rex if he actually taught me something. ugh... Congrats on approaching a wonderful topic in a humorous way. My thoughts, I believe as long as you as the producer are 100% honest on your labeling things are good, and if in the future we have a new category to enjoy that is good too. Rules are a double edge sword and should purposely take several cycles to create, debate, agree upon, and then later reviewed for their actual impact. Cheers.

[@IndustrialFaith]

Better than "A mouth for big wood."

[@bkirkham]

Only new American big wood

[@dmitrydygin2239]

@@olethanatos8173 I've heard an urban legend that one of the main driving forces behind outlawing marijuana in the US was the wood industry. Paper can be made from hemp as well, and with reportedly greater yields due to faster growth rates. So the wood industry heavily invested in marijuana-denouncement campaigns that influenced the image of hemp as well. Because they look the same and people can't distinguish whether it does contain THC or not by looks alone.

[@olethanatos8173]

@@dmitrydygin2239 Yup... you basically summed up my thesis, cheers.

[@johnstinson7018]

You boys need to get together and hash this out. By hash this out is you and Matt do everything in your power to make Daniel as uncomfortable as possible.

[@cenobitetoastcrunch8803]

This is the way! This is as nature intended!

[@cyrus987987]

Bring us Daniel! He must suffer for this outrage!

[@HooverM75]

As a Whisk(e)y Knight, I feel the Gauntlet has been thrown! So our only response...should be Crowded Barrel makes a bourbon mash, age it in new oak, then old oak, the name it "This should be a Bourbon Whisk(e)y"

[@cdrhoad]

Haha... I love this idea. I'll buy some and send Matt a bottle

[@adityasane]

And possibly age it for all of ~5 minutes in the new oak barrel

[@tommccafferty5591]

Or, We Can't Call This Bourbon.

[@dobber43]

@@adityasane splash it on the new oak and then on the old oak and be like this was technically bourbon

[@OpalholicsAnonymous]

@@adityasane what if you poured it out of the new oak.. dried it re char it. Then pour it back into the same barrel that now a "used" barrel. Making it drive home the silliness even more.

[@taylor315]

@8:10 “The sky is blue, grass is green, and Daniel is a seat sniffer” 🤣 you guys always have me dying 😅

[@McMullenDistillery]

This was so well articulated by Rex. I think he's 100% correct. I'd like to see the heights Bourbon can soar to in a new category that doesn't limit it to only charred new oak. Scotch has all the freedom in the world while Bourbon is fighting with a hand tied behind its back. Let's see what it can do.

[@meesternibbles]

Excellent video blending comedy and nerdiness. I gotta agree with rex's suggested guidelines, especially creating a new category of finished bourbons.

[@DANEgerus]

Genius... "a new category of finished bourbons"

[@DANEgerus]

Everybody wins! Bourbon & Finished Bourbon & Bottled in Bond & ???

[@enricojaun2880]

Minnick talkes about this too. I would agree, i think finished bourbon should be a separate category. But on the whole, quality, transparent labels are really key.

[@gblowe62]

Yes a new category to savor and collect.... I agree on Rex's proposal.

[@joshuasteele5108]

@@DANEgerus Single barrel cask strength bottled in bond Kentucky straight finished bourbon whiskey. Hell of a label lol

[@marcusmanchester1995]

It was fun watching Rex be the NERD for once! Also, I would love to see the rules around Bourbon tightened up so that we don't have such a strange gray area around things like Angel's Envy or things that are "Technically Bourbon" like the new make that you've joked about bringing out.

[@jessetheunending9357]

When the mooch makes sense, taking about rules (how they came to be, the current flaws, and how they could be improved), you know you done f***ed up! Cheers to both Rex, and Matt, for their love of whiskey.

[@benhouse5515]

I can't help but constantly be reminded of The Big Lebowski at the bowling alley, where in the middle of the match Walter pulls his 1911 and says "This isn't 'Nam! This is bowling! There are rules!!" Also find funny that we're saying this on a spirit whose standard is only from the 1930s where the barrel requirement was largely set by lumber lobbying. Bourbon needs to have rules, but this isn't Germany with its beer purity rules that date back to the 1500s...

[@thecrow5450]

“Nobody fucks with the Jesus.”

[@inhoopster8761]

Comparing Bourbon standards to German beer purity rules is ludicrous. Bourbon is a new spirit compared to beer. How many centuries (and countries) was beer produced before the Germans decided there should be rules? By comparison, Bourbon set its rules pretty early on in its existence. Just because people want to get creative with spirit making doesn't mean that purists have to sacrifice their product on the altar of change. Go off and make your flavored Frankenstein creations. Nobody cares if you make them. Just don't try to call them Bourbon. People who want that label are the same kind of people who liked New Coke. LOL

[@SavidgeKitchen]

The Walter reference! 😂🤣

[@RikWlz]

Lost it at a "mouthpiece for big wood". I don't LOL easily... bravo.

[@lauraisayetti]

My favorite part of this whole video is that I now know that I’m not the only one who watches Matt’s videos sped up a little because of how slow he talks 😂😂😂.

[@justinlewis1609]

god i fucking love this. some might see this and think its childish but not I. When someone calls you out for some bs that doesn't make sense you COULD take the high road and just politely correct them and state your side but.......... painstakingly making a well-rounded 25-minute video filled with logic haymakers and jokes makes me so happy. I want him to watch this and blush with embarrassment. It feels like this is the most work you have ever put into a video and i sure hope that's true because i fucking love it lol I aspire to be in this position one day and be able to knock it out of the park like this.

[@brianclausen2344]

For nigh on 2 years, I have followed the exploits of Diminuitive Daniel and his sidekick Rex! In akin to Pinky and the Brain, I learned, giggled and relished in Daniel's knowledge and Rex's slapstick comedic exploits.. I felt these two were solidly entrenched in their roles. BUT NO LONGER! Thanks to Rex and of course Matt, I learned more regarding Boubon and the hard lines drawn to define this spirit of American ingenuity! I am humbled by your knowledge ad wisdom within the breadth of Bourbon lore! Thanks Rex. You no longer are just the buffoon jester of the Whiskey Tribe! I lay my misbegotten imressions before your feet and ask your humble forgiveness! I really did learn something and thank you for doing it in such a fun and intelligent manner! Always knew you were more than a pretty face, Rex! lol

[@walkered]

I love both of these channels! I haven't laughed this much yet this year!

[@joefair4139]

I wondered how long it was going to take before you addressed Matt's challenge. Well done Rex. I also love both yours and Matt's channels. Cheers!

[@NorthWestBourbon]

The 1st half of this video that was a "reaction video" was absolutely hilarious!! Great response. The rules and guidelines you proposed about making another category for finished burdens makes complete sense to me, especially since so many companies are getting real deep into that. Cheers

[@kevincameron8437]

Your recommendations on expanding the term of Bourbon does make sense. Nothing wrong with starting in bourbon and expanding it as long as it’s on the bottle. Great video once again!

[@rustyshacklfort9508]

I agree

[@jakemiller270]

I think specialty names are needed. Kind of like double oaked, or the "fill in style of finishing" bourbon. Transparency and exact detail helps customers. It is hitting a point I ignore most sourced products cause I don't know every detail from barrel to bottle. If every fine detail is not shared how can you replicate the product? You can't and it makes me untrusting of alot of whiskeys.

[@themanwest8218]

For me, finished Bourbon.

[@bartschulp7692]

Happy New Year you Magnificent Bastards!

[@matthewpitts1232]

I love this Rex, you should do more videos without a responsible adult. See, nothing bad happened, just the 2 biggest bourbon youtubers making.....Pure. Gold. Content.

[@IndpndntJoe]

Great Video to "Kick off" "Punch" or "Slap on top of Daniel's Head" the 2022 New Year! Cheers All and Happy New Year! And in the immortal words of Rodney Dangerfield; "Can't we all just get along" or something to that effect 🙃🤓😂🥃🎉

[@remander3873]

The World's Top Whiskey Taster vs The Master Mooch! What an epic battle!

[@allenhorne5830]

Hope you guys know that Matt loves you guys and is always pulling off jokes like this.

[@kevinblock2307]

This was the best way to start 2022..I couldn’t stop laughing

[@adityasane]

Happy New Year MBs!!! 2022 is definitely the time to create a new "Finished Burboun" category that is distinct from "Special Sauce" The US whiskey market is one of the most regulated in the world for consumer interest... clarifying finished whiskeys is a step in the right direction!

[@joeblo5516]

Great videos from both of you. I appreciate the history and bourbon knowledge. I’m good with a “finished whiskey” category.

[@demoner1]

I hope a follow up video comes of this. Plus this definitely shined light on the need for additional guidance and need for more bourbon classification. End of the day more clarity for the consumer is best.

[@shredward666]

"Matt's ancestral lumber oligarchy" 😆 🤣 😂

[@stillcrazy4023]

This is why we love Briana ❤

[@blind7000]

I would love for "Finished" to be an add on labeling law the same way that "Straight" is. You still have your base requirements and then you add additional requirements on how long you can finish something and how you display the information. This way you can apply "Finished" to any category and require that the base spirit meet the original rules. Finished Corn Whiskey, Finished Rye, Finished Bourbon, Finished Rum...all if it. Otherwise you have to come up with a new category for every possible combination of Finished and the TTB book doubles in size.

[@johnnyshipman2194]

I love Matt and Rex both. This is WhiskeyTube gold. MORE OF THIS PLEASE

[@scooterv1951]

A great, hysterical start to Whiskey 2022!

[@eddie7062]

Amazing, Rex with a hay maker to start lmao 🤣, so happy you answered back, great information about bourbon too

[@artsohc]

I watched this video 5 times, the first 3 times was to make sure I heard it right and the next 2 times to make sure it was serious, and then 10 more times to verify that Rex is back-pedaling hard on his snippet comment in order to last 13 seconds…a problem that I, too, also have.

[@NorthWestBourbon]

👏😆

[@rerawho]

I’ve been waiting for this reaction. Thank you for my first 2022 laugh. I hope the rest of the year is as good.

[@Keith_KC8TCQ]

Rex, I think you need to challenge him to a mooch off.

[@Thrashzer]

@WHISKEY Tribe - Rex, you just need one of Matt's patented hug's! They're the best! He'll give you the physical contact that's lacking between you and Daniel!!! 😂👍

[@JulieLike_]

Chris those hugs do fix everything right?!😊❤️

[@gblowe62]

So we discovered that there is more to the Mooch than just drinking... In all seriousness, the true talent of Rex shines in this video. I usually don't understand the foolhardy endings, but this ending was magnificent. I am grateful to be a member of team Rex.... Unfortunately, I don't have any friends to mooch from and am unwilling to share my meager 12 bottles of my 11 week journey... Dam, I identify more as a Daniel....

[@ryans7184]

If you compare the descriptions of the woodinville Bourbon finished in Port barrels and the Double (or Triple) Barrel Blended Whiskey I think it shows they are doing more than finishing to disqualify the label. They seem to imply with Double Barrel that the ex-bourbon barrel "completes maturation" where the port barrel is used after maturation is complete.

[@chrisc9427]

I do wish American distillers would use more used oak. I absolutely love Michter's American and wish there were more whiskeys with that flavor profile, especially with a higher proof.

[@big_goat]

Then drink scotch! They get all used oak!

[@Whiskeyman6276]

Both channels are really great. I'd like to see Matt on your channel and vise versa.

[@justinbanks2380]

This is way more entertaining than it has any right to be. And Rex was way more eloquently spoken and thoughtful than one would ever expect. (Someone else doing the writing or has the goofball mooch we've all come to know and love been a masterful ruse? 🤔) This video was both entertaining and insightful. With tons of good natured ball busting. Long live the Whiskey Tribe! These are me PweeBles!

[@jamiehall6679]

Best video to watch on the first day of the New Year love you both !!

[@MarshallWebbJr]

*The* best Whiskey Tribe video so far. Pure gold.

[@tsubakichan]

Glad this video put a highlight on Matt. He is absolutely hilarious, so I hope he gets a new audience! (Love this channel too, obviously)

[@youaresomeone3413]

😆 🤣 I can't stop laughing dude this is so ridiculous and I love ridiculousness

[@rough_spirits]

Lol great job Rex. This was a good laugh this morning.

[@DDM-Nerd]

A reminder of the good old days when you could go pick a fight, and win or lose you'd be drinking afterward with them and sharing a conversation.

[@salllmanjohn20]

This was a great video. Definitely made sense and great laughs. Matt is a great guy and have been waiting for a response with glee. Hope this bit continues 😅

[@kuhwks]

I love Matt Porter and his content, and, by the way, he IS "big wood". However, I can appreciate what Rex says after babbling and blowing hot air for 20 minutes. Bourbon doesn't stop being bourbon by finishing it, and there needs to be some simple clarification between "basic bourbon" and "finished/specialty bourbon". That might actually push the Bourbon craze to an even higher level of interest than we see now because it would be much easier for everyone to understand "The Rules".

[@aarondagres1322]

Honestly this is the best thing ever from two of my favorite whiskey personalities.

[@stevetraxler3858]

Rex…thank you for some great laughs to start 2022. Happy New Year

[@FastHatTrick]

Could not have been handled any better. So many layers. Great op to cover the topic. Great video for tongue and cheek, and just enough serious wink to make the point.

[@tobin_nathan]

There is so much gold in this. I’m dead 😂

[@Remman1]

This makes me so happy to see the retort. Matt has the funniest channel in whiskey.

[@antonazarov7971]

Apart from the clearest ever statement of purpose from Rex, this was the funniest 'wiping the floor with' reply I saw in years. Cheers, Rex!

[@breakingbelmont]

I love the idea of a separate “finished bourbon” category. Also, after some thought, I fully agree with all of your proposed finished bourbon rules. However, I would love to see a whiskey category where it’s secondary or tertiary aging is longer than the primary aging, i.e. a bourbon aged in new charred oak barrel for 4 years, then a sherry cask for 6 years. I wouldn’t feel comfortable calling it “finished” when it has spent more time in the sherry cask, but I feel like there could be a lot of potential and great whiskey that came from a longer “finishing” process. Maybe double aged? Triple aged? What do you think?

[@jamosensei]

I was wondering when there was going to be a response to this…very articulate and potent enough, hopefully, to pierce through the veil of Matt’s “Whiskey Rage”. Happy New Year Rex, Daniel, & company…may your bar stock always be full!

[@timshulepov]

Super cool! So glad this conversation finally happened!

[@King_David005]

This is why we love Rex

[@DanaBlanco.]

A mouthpiece for big wood! Them fighting words if I ever heard them ADHD!

[@williamrizzo4296]

This is probably my favorite video. Two of my favorite whiskey channels showing love and ball busting. Man if only I can share a dram with them!

[@wortheffort]

The SCREAM…..

[@singlemaltwhiskyenthusiast9248]

I Love this Grill

[@libertyfarmsiowa]

That was awesome. I was laughing so hard I damn near peed unfinished bourbon.

[@mr_weenie_ak]

I agree with Matt and Rex. There needs to be rules and there needs to be a new class for finished bourbon. The rules should be as Rex stated. Great video.

[@bugeyes5396]

I would say a finished bourbon category world be amazing for bourbon and the consumer, great video guys 👍👍

[@ulkesh78]

"A mouthpiece for big wood"......

[@Abby_Normal_1969]

Woodinville Whiskey Company is near and dear to my heart...and to my home, maybe just over a mile. Their Triple Barrel is the most challenging whiskey I have had. It is an Islay drinker's bourbon (mash bill), full of ash and brine. Would do it again, but it is not currently available. Hope to see it again.

[@jamieweigold5234]

Entertaining and informative. What else does one need!

[@paladonis]

So much gold in this video but the Helix video profile. Geez. 'I want a CA King mattress for 1 sleeper. My name is Hands and I am12 years old and 4 foot 6 inches and weigh 72lbs" 🤣🤣🤣 Happy New Year. Slainte Mhath

[@aaronth2796]

Edutainment at its finest!

[@STiROCKET06]

Dude this video was hilarious. Both of them are so damn funny.

[@stiehl8455]

Best video in a long time!

[@kriswilson9902]

I think that bare minimum, a staring contest is in order.

[@SavidgeKitchen]

I’m a little disappointed that the top hat came off… but the eagle onesie made up for it. Also agree about the idea for a standard for finished bourbons. Would love to see that evolve!

[@zanderwow]

I so needed this! ❤🤣 Matt, sounds like it's time for a road trip brother! Can't wait to see you guys nerd out on some finished "bourbons"! 😅

[@j_rosenberg]

The sound the head slap made 🤣🤣🤣

[@Natural_Encounters]

This was awesome! Huge fan of both channels!

[@KGiustOD]

I agree with everything you proposed except the aging time. If it’s aged in charred new oak for four years but then finished in a used cask for 8 years (because the imparted flavors would be too subtle with less time) that should still be a “Finished Bourbon.” IMO.

[@ryankretz2072]

Rex, I actually agree with you on those guidelines and think they make absolute sense unlike most of the laws and rules written. You and Matt and all the other whiskey elites of tribe people and advocates need to band together to get in law through what we can call Rex N' FX. All the puns intended and another way for you to use Dad rap. You're welcome. No but seriously, get other major distillers involved to get that stuff fixed because it's BS that delicious whiskey that should be called Bourbon One Way or another does not get that technicality and crap can throw bourbon on their bottle to use what the deliciousness of bourbon is in likeness to just sell product. Cheers and thank you.

[@YoPaulieMusic]

"Matt's ancestral lumber oligarchy..." LOL

[@xxThabaxx]

One change. Finished bourbon should be a category, but rather than limiting the finishing to time in new oak greater than time in the finishing barrels, you should just have to put the age statement for each stage on the bottle (with a minimum font size) for anything called bourbon. This will be especially important with multiple finishing stages. This also mostly solves the no age requirement at least from a consumer protection perspective.

[@LikeTimewhiskey]

This was some funny stuff. Great video. Best I’ve seen in a long time from anyone honestly. Cheers !!!

[@ericellis2729]

I thoroughly enjoy all of the channels involved in this one. I wanna see a playground style dust-up SO bad 😆

[@PaulDillinger]

Amazing video. Well done everyone!

[@meesternibbles]

Happy New Year tribe!

[@bjornarnols5905]

I've never seen two men fighting via pre recorded video but it's better than I expected

[@JeremyAKnight]

Lol. I actually learned a lot about bourbon in this video 🤣

[@NothingPicksLocks]

I absolutely agree with you Rex. I have always thought that those rules needed to be slightly adjusted.

[@mwn1218]

Satirical slap fight aside, the info in this is great! I would love to see a video with Matt discussing the whiskey nerdiness

[@SergeantSphynx]

Rex, I agree 100% with the additions you laid out for bourbon as a category and the new Finished Bourbon category.

[@jwm1222]

Great video and explanation of the confusion these "rules" have caused. Angel's Envy = Fireball 😳 "... Big wood..." Bwahahaha 🤣😂🤣

[@benakins5532]

ADHD Whiskey is a national treasure

[@tracyperry6231]

Hilarious video. But I am in full agreement with Rex. There does need to be a minimum time of barrel aging to qualify as a bourbon. Also I fully agree with the government expanding the definition to include as a "finished bourbon" any bourbon base that is then placed (after adequate new oak barrel aging) into a barrel to finish it and add additional complexities to it. It still remains a bourbon as it meets the minimum requirements, it's been aged as required...they've simply taken it one additional step by aging for more time in other barrels. Personally I don't county that as providing any "additives".

[@ladykay6823]

Thank god you cleared this up - for a minute there, I thought maybe Daniel wasn’t a seat sniffer. 😉

[@58lukum]

Ohhhhhhh I’ve been waiting for this

[@Boltman47]

Good on you guys for having some fun. Rex is too funny. I dont enjoy whiskey all that much, but love this channel. Keep having fun guy, we love ya!

[@andrews4321]

I would 100% love to see a video with Rex and Matt drinking together and discussing the more vague parts of whiskey

[@vitola_and_proof]

This is so on point! I love it.