Honey-finished bourbon is produced by adding real honey directly into bourbon barrels during the aging process, allowing the honey to integrate naturally with the whiskey over time rather than being artificially flavored. This process creates a sticky, sweet flavor profile where honey becomes the predominant taste, often described as 'sticky honey bourbon' with a long, sweet finish. The honey's flavor can vary based on seasonal harvest and plant sources, with spring harvest honey being lighter and more delicate while summer harvest honey tends to be more robust. This technique differs from honey-flavored whiskey, which typically uses artificial flavoring and results in overly sweet, low-proof products with minimal bourbon character.
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LIVE! Green River Honey, Too Turnt Tea + Blind SamplesAdded:
Yeah.
Been talking to you guys for the last four minutes.
Four minutes. I told you everything that went wrong when why I was 7 minutes late.
Then I noticed that I wasn't live. So 4 minutes of me talking. I was I was seven minutes late.
Then I ran the whole intro thing. the whole the second intro thing I came on screen I said hello to lots of people and Christian Moia was here my mom's here Kobe's here Travis Robson's here sweet Cindy's here I don't like I'm just just I already said hello to a lot of people bourbon lovers here saw that bourbon I'm just I I just was saying hello to everybody and reading through what everyone has been saying Kobe's giving me a bunch of crap for being late I was reading that he's g more crap hey let's chant Matt saying chant his Porter, poor, all that stuff, read it all. Got to the bottom and it was still more talk about me being late. Look up in the corner and it says go live. So, that is that. Um, damn.
I mean, honestly, it wasn't a great introduction anyway. It's just a bunch of apologies and blabbing, telling you about how my computer was frozen. Then actually went on a pretty good maybe a minute of that was a pretty good spiel about how the um Adobe Premiere Pro wouldn't close even though I told it that I wanted it to close and not wait for it to respond cuz the program wasn't responding and then I told it to to close anyway and then it wouldn't close.
So, like then I made a funny joke about it being like the door close button on an elevator and how you push it and it doesn't do anything. That was kind of like the close the program anyway button for Adobe Premiere Pro.
That's probably like the third or fourth time or fifth time I've done that.
That's always a [ __ ] because I got so excited to start live streaming because when you press go live and stream, you click it and then You got to click it again. There's a second click. The first click just is more like a the first answer on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Then you got to give them your final answer.
And tonight I forgot to do the final answer thing.
That is That's great. That's great.
Oh man. Governor M bestick Kobe. I was apologizing about Nomad Madness schedule yet, saying that you've been sending me music, which you have, and I've loved it.
Brad's here. What's up, Brad? Hope you recorded it. No, it's not recorded. My um Streamyard library is full. It only records so much, and it's probably a bunch of stuff I don't need realistically, man. Man. Oh man.
Um Allan drinking some Stag 26A. Nice. I retasted that the other night. And Mississippi Buckeye. I said hello to you earlier. I did. I definitely did.
Boy. Oh boy.
I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off looking for a portfolio for my wife cuz she has a interview tomorrow for a job, a J O. and I had this leather portfolio that she was going to use to put stuff and then no idea where it's at. And I looked for it for so long.
Got some stuff to do tonight for the live stream. Oh yeah, someone said that they were drinking um Voltron and then they're g they're going to follow it up with 12 Summers and then I asked chat if anyone has gotten their um Aphrodite yet cuz I want to hear some feedback on that. But tonight, some blind samples in here. We're going to do a couple of those. We'll start with one.
Got the Green River honey thing in here.
Got Where the hell is it even at?
Is it buried?
That ain't it?
Is it buried behind all these ice cold diet cokes?
It might be.
Oh, yeah. Here it is.
Got some two turn tea. [laughter] Going to try going to try this and then maybe try it with some Green River honey bourbon. I don't know. Maybe we'll do that. Maybe that's what's in the cards for tonight. But thank you all for joining me on this Tuesday. Sorry that it's late and that it's Tuesday. But uh the kiddo's softball schedule is winding down. She has two more games then. Well, I guess we're going on a road trip at the end of June, so things are going to be still a little bit bobbled around for a little while, but I promise you it's going to all turn out good in the end. It's what I tell myself every day.
Keegan says, "Good. Nice." Like that.
Getting stuck looking for things.
You've lost a movie. I have no idea where it's at, but I feel like I've seen it. I feel like I've seen it somewhere around here recently.
But everywhere I look, it's not there.
What's this? Infinity BK batch. Uh, I don't remember what's in that. That's That's um I've tried it and it was really good, but I don't know. I can't remember what the story was on that. There's so many projects going on there that I don't remember the details of all of them, but I did try it and it was really damn good.
This is Buck. I almost finished my Voltron pour 12 summers on deck. My Aphrodite Daidos is still waiting to ship. Been picked up, but no date yet.
Well, when you get it, I need to know. I need to know. Mine's gone. I told Bunch he needed to send me more cuz she gone.
All right, let's get into first blind pour. Kicking things off right in focus and eyes shut. Opening the hand. No spoilers in chat.
I grabbed these out of the 1 oz Wednesday box. I threw a couple of them in this coffee mug behind me. We're going to get the party started with this blind poor blind score America.
Got it. Found it.
Got the Green River yesterday. Nice.
Started with the final flight. Haven't had it since I got it. Really opened up nice. Oh, the about the turkey. Oh, man.
Hopefully we can get another uh turkey pick soon. Maybe hopefully this fall.
That'd be amazing.
I'll have to beg Alves.
[snorts] [clears throat] I Christian says, "I lost a camera tripod that was on my desk yesterday and I lost an hour and a half looking for it. I blame the kids."
Did you look under your camera?
[snorts and laughter] That's a good place for it. It's where it would be a lot of the time. I've lost my phone that I've been holding in my hand before. It's a real thing.
Excited to hear your thoughts on the Honey.
I'm excited, too. I mean, they're super cheap. Did score the new GT10 and 12?
Having fun with Oh, heck yeah. That's awesome. The 14 years is really good.
The 10 and 12 are awesome. You're going to love those. If you haven't had them yet, you're going to freaking love them.
today. Got Weller 107 ECB 525. Good hunting in Florida. Yeah, I mean it's great great hunting here in Colorado, too. Shot a video last night for the Weller single barrel that I'm gonna edit later. Should post it tomorrow. Should be out tomorrow. Although, tomorrow's going to be a really busy day. So, better have it finished tonight.
Although, tonight's going to be a very busy night. Got so many things I need to do. Editing it, putting it out is on the agenda. It's on the list. Um, we have company coming in this weekend for they're driving from Michigan. So, trying to prepare the house for that. I have to go on a fishing field trip with my fourth grader tomorrow. And by have to, I mean I get to. I'm actually kind of pumped for it. As long as she keeps the hooks out of her body, I'm super pumped for it. Tomorrow night, another softball game an hour away. So much stuff going on. So much stuff.
But let's live in the moment, shall we?
Just me and you. Me and all of you.
That smells bourbony.
Well, not I would say like um a dusty but slightly sweet almost a like a nut heavy trail mix.
>> Yeah.
>> The more I nose it, the nuttier it's getting. just over again.
[snorts] Yeah. Like a wind tunnel of nut.
Big time.
Little caramelly. Oh, like a payday.
Like a payday candy bar. Yep. That's what that smells like.
What do you think about whiskey channels closing this week? Two of the channels I watch are taking a step back. Um I listen there's there's going to that's going to happen.
People come and people go. People have lives. People have to do things. I mean the economy is tough. So people got to stop buying whiskey and start working more if they can or I mean it's just there was a big influx of people when whiskey was really good and I'm never going to leave. So uh it sucks like the more the better. The community is the best when it's fully powered with enthusiasts and people who can enjoy the stuff. But hopefully just because they're out of the whiskey tube game for now doesn't mean that they're out forever and they'll make their way back and the friends they've made they continue to be friends with.
What channels if uh if you don't mind saying inflatable raft? Put them both on the curb. Both of them on the curb. Done with them. So sick of them. Never buying anything inflatable that I got to get into in water ever again.
ever again.
Ever again.
Just leaks out of nowhere. Just Oh, guess what? I'm a piece of [ __ ] so I'm going to leak air. Oh, what's that?
No hissing sounds. Let me fix that. Blow a freaking Let me patch that. Oh, you patched me here.
Oh, from the freaking backside or the underb butt of it. two of them. My wife got one and I got one. Both of them Intex excursion. They weren't even cheap. They were expensive and they sucked. I couldn't I was too Even when I was at my skinnest with them. Fishing out of it was a batch.
They call it a fishing kayak. more like a [ __ ] and kayak because that's all I ever did in it was just [ __ ] and paddle and get [ __ ] tangled.
Thanks for bringing up a sore subject.
Done that.
[snorts] That is Don't love that. Whatever that is.
I'm not sure if it was the inflatable.
It's getting worse and worse.
This might also have some of that sample bottle paint to it, but it was bad before that.
You can kind of taste the plastickiness to it, which I'm sure now that I've tasted so many of these, not all of them have that, but when they do, they do. This one's double bad because it's very nutty and like sawdusty, but then it gets into that plasticky thing.
Second step [snorts] >> [clears throat] >> Oh, it tastes like Whoa.
Maybe I'm just being a sensitive little boy.
Tastes a lot like Evan Williams Bottle of Bond, but maybe higher proof. Maybe you're a higher proof version of it.
Huh.
Drying, too. Interesting. I don't love that.
I don't love that at all.
Let me see here. Let me look at my scoreboard so I can give it a fair score.
Oh man.
There it is.
I would say that it is a 5.5. It is not my jam.
It is not my jam.
It is a nutty bugger, which could be other people's jams. I'm not going to say it's necessarily bad, but that's definitely not my jam. And if it is my jam, it's not my jam tonight. What is it?
Barrel Vantage 2022 [snorts] 114.44 proof. What the hell is in that was a Bill Cavlon sample. It's been in there for a while, which might explain some of the sample paint.
Oh man, I can't even use my keyboard because I got a light on it. Hold on.
Hold on.
Trying light on my balls. Um, barrel.
Whoops. There's one E, not two. Barrel Vantage 2022.
There's got to be Kentucky and maybe some Is there dick in that, too? I don't know. Oh, finishing Mizanara.
That'll do it.
Oh, pallet magazine, huh? No, it's paste mag. Wow, I can't even read today.
Vantage is a blend.
Hold on.
My internet's been really not great lately. It took I edited a YouTube video from my kids yesterday and it was a 20 minute video and it took over two hours to upload and I'm paying for like the fastest internet that Xfinity got. But Xfinity, not Xfinity.
They're trying to turn into my Xinity if you know what I mean. Blend of stray bourbons finished in three distinct expressions of virgin oak. Misanara, French, and toasted American oak casks.
If it's toasted, is it virgin? I don't think I don't I wouldn't consider that to be a virgin barrel if it's toasted.
Just saying. The result is a warm, elegant bourbon that highly highlights the many dimensions of oak. Um, if those dimensions are all really really sawdusty green grapes, no. No, not unless your green grapes came from a peanut gel.
That is not my jam.
All right, come on. Get back up there.
Let's catch up and chat. And then I'm You know, I'm gonna do the second Let's do the second blind one. Hopefully the second blind one's a little bit better.
Got another one in here.
Focus and open. All right. No spoilers in chat for the second one here.
America.
All right. Okie dokie.
F those Intex inflatables. Like sitting in a Ziploc bag trying to fish, right?
And you're It's not. And then my legs are all stir super straight and on top and it's like when even when I was thin it was a batch. But being when I was over like big time overweight and trying it was the most frustrating thing.
Your picture is fuzzy right now, Matt.
Oh, I wonder if that's my internet being an idiot. Like, I just That's crazy.
Let's see if it's any Is it any better now?
on the barrel whiskey and barrel hunters too.
[snorts] He won't see our comments for another 15 minutes. It was five minutes, Nick. It was five minutes.
You were blurry on the phone and on the TV. We can see clearly now.
Is it bad still?
[snorts] All right, let me know if it's still bad.
Unbelievable.
Let me give me one second. I want to make sure something. Hold on. I know it might be better to write this second, but give me one moment because I want to double check something. Hold on.
I'm back.
Mojo only water for you today. Sometimes water is a good a good choice.
Porterfam hoging the bandwidth. That shouldn't even be any sort of an issue at all. It shouldn't be any issue.
But this isn't the first time that I've had problems with upload speeds.
Good now. All right. If it gets bad again, tell me. I'll throw a [ __ ] cat.
We'll call exfinity together. We'll do the color on that's pretty. That's a pretty color. Look at that. It's nice.
Thanks, Mom.
Ooh.
Ooh, this smells much different.
Is this really old or is it I like this game. But is it old or in a secondary barrel game?
The more I nose it, the more I'm thinking this is going to be old.
But there are hints of maybe a double barrel.
It's very It's [clears throat] very plummyy, very dark fruit, very like sticky. Like real sticky icky icky.
By the way, uh my children are now I'm going to record it one of these days on the way back from school, but they know every word to the song Grills by Nelly and Paul Ball and it's the best thing ever. They're both girls. They're nine and 10 and it's really fun. My favorite thing maybe ever is when they both go, "What it do, baby?
It's the Iceman." Pow! Wow! [laughter] So good. I don't know. I don't even Oh, cuz Never mind. Get my [ __ ] together.
Oh, [snorts] yeah. That is really old.
What the hell's that?
Okay. Okay. Okay. That is like 12 plus years proof.
Oh, maybe around 100 or a little more.
Sweet oak. Really sweet oak. But the oak is sweet, but none of the other flavors in it are sweet. I don't It's not a Buffalo Trace product.
It's not.
Let me think here. That mean that this kind of reminds me of like a brown form thing like a Mers or something like that.
Victors.
Second sip is really good. The oak I mean the oak the proof the proof seemingly is lower than I thought. We'll go 100ish 100ish proof. old.
[snorts] The finish is really long and really good. This is my jam.
I love this whiskey. I love oki bourbon.
I freaking love oki bourbon.
I used to like Paul Wall. Is is he the one who was singing Bllandens tonight?
Is it that bad? Hold on. Let me [snorts] singing a song about a $60 $70 whiskey is terrible.
Has to be a bandwidth internet issue.
It's great. Now, um what is like the best speed test thing? Because I think that every time I try to do a speed test thing, it goes through Xfinity speed has now do speedtest.exfinity.com.
That sounds like maybe somebody's going to flood the numbers.
Testmyspeed.com.
Sounds legit.
Internet speed test. Let's do it.
Go.
Your speeds are loading.
What service do I pay for? Pretty sure it's like the gigabit service where I should, I think, get a 100 up, I think. Oh. Oh. Oh no. Oh no.
Upload speed. Wow. You are amazing.
[snorts] Download 305.
Upload literally 8.3.
What is happening?
It's definitely not a camera wire problem cuz I can see on my screen I look fantastic.
Sometimes when Matt reads comments I wonder if my screen froze.
Oh, another a a second Travis Smartass in chat. Great. Any more Travis smartasses around here? Ukla speed test is the best.
[snorts] That is absolutely terrible.
Um, how can they be so bad?
Hold [snorts] on. I'm going to look. I'm going to take a gander [gasps] what it looks like over here on my end.
If I look at myself on my phone, I want to see what you guys see. I'll see how bad it is.
Oh, wow. That's That's fantastic.
No way.
Oh my god.
Um, let me think. I'm not sure. Let me exit out and come back in. Maybe that. I mean, no, it's my it's my freaking upload speeds. I know.
Hold on. I'll be right back.
All right, let's see if this is any better.
Reboot modem is the only thing you can do. Rebooting the modem is going to take a bit.
Does that look any better? Looks better on my end after I exited and came back.
But nope, now it's back to blurry as [ __ ] You know what?
I'm not going to sit here with extra fuzzy mad.
I need to give you at least a qual. I'm going to go I'm going to reset the modem. It should be back online in what?
Two minutes.
Resetting modem BRB.
You prefer the blurry. You're rude.
Just tuned in. Your video is very low quality. I Yeah, I'm going to go reset the modem. Hold on.
Be right back.
All right, [snorts] let's see if this is any better.
[sighs and panting] How was that? currently looks a little better. Who knows if it's going to stay that way or if it's going to fall apart like everything else around here.
All right, where were we? Oh, yeah. This blind poor.
[snorts] I moved the light when I moved when I got out and then now it's all messed up.
Everything's me. I'm sorry. This is a disaster.
Cheers. Ding. This smells really good though.
>> [snorts] >> All right, that it's got to be older than 12.
15.
It kind of tastes like um like a Calat 15 or a Sam Houston 15, but there's no cherry on it really. It would be around the same proof. I don't know. So that's really good. That second blind pour really damn good. 8 58 8.58 which is a ridiculously high score especially for something that is completely blind.
Harden's Creek 211.
That was the last little drip of the Hardens Creek.
Let's see if I've scored Harden Creek before.
ADHDcoreboard.com.
Search for Hardens.
I never scored that, huh? I guess not.
Well, we just did. I'm pretty sure I scored it at some point.
Maybe not.
Oh, wait. There it is. Jacob's 211 8.8.
What did I just give it? What did I just say? 8 [laughter] 64. Is that what I said? My My real review of it was 8.8. 109 proof, 17 years.
H.
Oh, back to [ __ ] Back to garbage man.
Oh my gosh.
I'm going to lose my ever loving freaking mind.
You need to swap up modes with Xfinity.
[gasps] Yeah, it's been Why run a speed test? I did. I did and it was real bad. It was real bad. The speed test came out real bad. And then I reset the modem and still [ __ ] >> [sighs and gasps] >> H [clears throat] I wonder if I do this.
Where is I got an idea. I got an idea. I got a little idea. You know what? I got a great idea. All I need is 10 seconds.
And by 10 seconds, I mean 20. I'll be right back. And we're going to freaking do this, right? Give me one second. I've got an idea. I got a good idea.
I'm muted. I'm muted. I was talking and I was muted. Wow, [snorts] that's great.
Yeah, picture was good when I was gone and then but then I uh Yeah, we'll we'll see if if it gets shady [snorts] again, then I'll switch to my if it gets shitty again, I'll just switch to hotspot on my phone, which is phenomenal considering pay for highspeed internet.
Got this box from Green River. It is here. And now I can't stop looking at my phone to see if the quality is crap.
This thing, this is like what is it? A $30 bottle of honey bourbon they sent in this freaking sweet B box. Look at that B box. It's nice.
And it opens from one of these sides.
It's like It's like a freaking bourbon fighting cage of Yeah. Says Green River buzz Buzz. That's what it says. I'm opening it.
Look at that. That's nice. They went the extra mile for a cheap ass bottle of whiskey. That's for sure.
It says real honey. I got that.
They gave me a swizzle stick or a frag.
This is a cam-sized drumstick.
Tap tap tappy tap tap tabby. And then this bottle of Green River honey. Honey, get out of there. It's in there really good, too. Just in there really [clears throat] good. You really got to get in there. Maybe from the bottom. You just got to Oh my Everything's not right.
Yeah, [ __ ] Get.
All right, I'm going to pour it. Then I'm going to read about it. But first, let's get this thing open. Got a profile protective thing off of there. Oh yeah. Super shitty quality. I'm changing to hotspot.
Hotspot on.
Going over here.
How's that look? Any better?
Is that any better?
Oh no. I look like [ __ ] still.
Come on.
[snorts] Maybe quality may be improving slightly.
Fuzzy verse blurry. Yeah. Well, oh yeah.
[snorts] Where was I? Yeah, the profile decks.
We got to hurry up and get through this before Oh my freaking America glass.
Got one.
Green River honey.
[snorts] All right. According to the box. Let's see what it says here.
Clear again. That's good.
Is the SLB music in the background? Oh, it's not. It's not. I should put that on.
Thanks for thanks for that.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I can smell the honey from here.
That's crazy.
Real honey, real bourbon, real good.
A lot of bourbon drinkers won't touch honey flavored whiskey.
And honestly, we get it. When people hear honey flavored whiskey, I can smell the honey and my glasses around my my my man my man sack.
When people hear honey flavored whiskey, they think overly sweet, low proof, and barely any bourbon character. If there's any bourbon in the mix at all, so we did things differently.
Introducing Green River Honey, which starts with only four-year-old Kentucky straight bourbon. Then we add 100% real locally sourced honey directly into the barrel, letting thyme and oak do the rest. Instead of honey flavored, we go honey finished. Instead of substitutes, we use real bourbon and real honey.
Instead of shortcuts, we give it time and a bottle at 92 proof. This is what real tastes like.
Uh, hold on. I got to reread that.
Starts with only four-year-old Kentucky straight bourbon. Then we add 100% real locally sourced honey directly into the barrel.
letting thyme and oak do the rest.
Instead of honey flavored, we go honey finished.
If they're adding honey right to the barrel, that would be honey flavored, right? Nothing against cre doesn't make any sense to me. Unless the way my brain interprets what they're saying is wrong.
That's telling me that they literally flavored it with honey.
A honey finish would be like if they put the whiskey into a barrel that once held honey.
Putting honey.
We add 100% real locally sourced honey directly into the barrel, letting time and oak do the rest.
That sounds like they're putting it directly into the barrel of bourbon, like adding honey into the bourbon, which in my mind is flavored.
Not finished.
I don't know how is every is anybody else interpret that differently. Am I crazy here?
It wouldn't be a big deal if they didn't like literally say instead of honey flavored, we go honey finished cuz they make a big point of it. But it makes in my brain it sounds like they're [music] adding honey to the bourbon.
I don't know. I don't have the bandwidth for this. [laughter] Get it? [snorts] cuz I don't cuz my internet's bad.
[cough and clears throat] Does a bottle actually have bourbon on it? Great question.
Yep. Add honey to the aging barrel.
Yeah, they're finishing it because they put honey in the barrel with the whiskey, then let it age longer with the honey in there.
If they add honey, that's flavoring.
That's adding the honey.
It is 30 bucks. I mean, that's what if they add honey to the barrel, then dump it, then pour whiskey in the barrel. That would be um a [music] distilled spirit specialty, which is like the fantasy collection from Barrel King.
So it says like on the barrel king fantasy collection it says uh American whiskey finished in conditioned X bourbon and wine barrels. So [music] a that would be like a conditioned barrel if they put b if they put honey into the barrel itself.
Like let's say that it was a honeyed bar like a honey barrel that they've conditioned.
Then that's that's why this is a distilled spirit specialty and not a bourbon or like a straight bourbon or straight. It's just um not all of these use conditioned barrels, but some of them they do. But we make [music] it a point to say that if a barrel's conditioned, it's conditioned for the fantasy collection stuff.
But [music] I don't know. What does it say in here?
Straight bourbon whiskey with natural flavors.
Finished bourbon whiskey. Real bourbon, real honey. This is so confusing to me.
I mean, I It's not. I get it.
Real bourbon, real honey, real good.
To create green river honey, we took It's hard to read. White on yellow is hard to read.
We took real bourbon and poured real honey straight into the barrel. [music] Then let time do what it does best.
That's it.
No shortcuts, no artificial flavors and coloring. No fancy story. [music] Just 4-year-old Kentucky bourbon and locally sourced honey coming together the right way. Real bourbon. Real honey. Real good. Yeah. I mean, at least they tell you what they did. I think that maybe the term finishing is I don't know Fred Mick talked about this a long time ago how by not having by not like upholding laws about calling something a straight B because it says straight bourbon on the label that things can get fuzzy. So if you don't I mean it's just I love Green River. [music] I really do.
That's just a That's just a little They explain the process, so that's good. But they added honey directly to the whiskey.
That's weird.
I poured it and I smelled honey immediately. I could smell the honey.
Now I put my nose in it and it's not there anymore.
Wait a minute. Wait one thread in the neck.
The honey is very I thought this was going to be super honey forward based off of me smelling it from way down here, but now that I put my nose in it again, subtle honey, but it is there. By the way, has anyone smelled any smelled something honey and you didn't know it was honey? Or like you taste something that's honey and you don't know it's honey. It's the most disgusting thing ever until you know it's honey. If you know it's honey, it's good. But if you don't know it's honey, it's really bad.
All right, first sip.
Oh, that is lovely.
That is lovely.
It's sticky.
It's honey. It's bourbon.
It is sticky honey bourbon.
I like that.
It is very sticky. It is very Oh, now that the like the alcohol is kind of tamed like winding down, now the honey is starting to make an appearance on the back end.
That's a sticky whiskey. [music] That is sticky sticky.
Not [snorts] bad though. That's pretty good.
I'm [snorts] on the fence about honey, though. Some days I love honey and other days it makes me want to throw up.
And I don't understand why. It's one of those weird things.
Sometimes I love it. Sometimes I'm like, "Oh, get it away."
But that is a real honeyde.
A real honeyde bugger.
Interesting. I like it. Um, I don't know what else to say about it.
Like tasting notes wise. It is doesn't taste youthful at all. It just tastes It tastes like a moderately aged bourbon with a ton of honey in it. [music] It has, by a ton of honey, I mean that's the overwhelming flavor.
And it really sticks around.
Little bit of spice, maybe like some cinnamon or something in there too, but predominantly honey.
That's really nice. I did it. They say natural flavors on the bottle. Yeah. [snorts] I forgot you were streaming tonight.
Well, I'm glad you found me. It's been a It's been a [ __ ] show. It's been so shitty this stream. I'm sorry.
You can't have straight bourbon whiskey with natural flavors, right? I mean, no. But if the TTB allows it, then you can have a straight like it shouldn't say straight B. In my opinion, [music] it shouldn't say straight bourbon whiskey on the label if the end product isn't straight bourbon whiskey. So it says straight bourbon whiskey on the label, but then it says but then it kind of like modifies it. kind of like the old age statement stuff like they the laws have been getting a bit um grayer I guess you could say age statements used to be like hey you got to the only age that can be on the bottle the only like even sometimes they were really strict and were like the only number [music] that can really be on the bottle is the minimum age of the like the the youngest distlate that's in the bottle is the age like that's what's on the bottle. So people got in trouble for putting like um like like George Dickle 8 was one of them because it it wasn't 8 years old it was recipe number eight and I think there was some like an uproar about that. At some point when they changed it from 8 years just to like recipe 8, it's like people didn't love that because it's no longer the age and it just says eight on the label even though it's not 8 years old.
The straight bourbon thing is kind of done gone about the same way where they're just less picky about it. Age statements are the same way. Um things will say like they'll have multiple ages on the label like an age um profile like 6 to 8 years or wild turkey is whisies aged for up to 6 to 8 years which makes no sense.
I don't know things are a bit fuzzy.
It's 2026. Nothing means anything anymore. Everything's all freaking messed up.
I have so much honey in my mouth for $25 is very good. Oh, for sure. I mean, this they did this so right because for the price point, just buy it and you'll have it. And if you want something that's a sweet dessert whiskey or if you want to get family or friends into whiskey and you're like, "Oh, they like honey." Then try this honey.
for the price point. Good grief, it's good. So good. Like it's not artificial.
It tastes real. It tastes like a real a real life um product that you would think would t would probably cost more, but it doesn't even it actually tastes higher than 92 proof.
Maybe not.
It's strange because at first it sort of tastes like not nothing but nothing really happens to the palette and then it just like builds the stickiness of honey all the way back like the bear on the box of cereal.
Maybe you don't like this like a season the honey comes from. What does that mean?
Honey tastes different depending on what season it comes from.
Is that a real thing? Sticky like sugary? Yeah, definitely sticky like sugary.
What is a shortcut version of adding honey to a barrel? That is That's the shortest cut version there is. So I mean like when Belme did it, Belme like the Belme honey would be a bourbon barrel that aged bourbon for so long and then they sent it to [ __ ] I can't remember the the honey place that was nearby in Tennessee there but they sent it to crap uh this honey place and then they they aged honey inside the bourbon barrel and then they dumped the honey out of the bourbon barrel after it was aged for so long. Then they sent the barrels back to Belme and Belme reaged their cask strength bourbon inside those reused bourbon honey barrels which turned out ridiculously good. Like ridiculously good. Those bottles were so soughta lions out the you know big time expensive secondary bottles for the time. Um, but yeah, if you can pull this off and do it for 35 bucks a bottle, hell yeah.
Great. Is it blurry again?
Old charter eight. Yeah.
Ancient age 10 star. Yep.
All good. Benchmark 8. Yeah. All good.
Um, yeah. I mean, if if why is something called benchmark 8 if it wasn't to deceive, you know?
Picked up the worsted foolproof from Greener today. Oh, we did. Wow. Pound a few. I was like, you picked up the worst foolproof, but it's a great sub. That doesn't make any sense.
It will mess with my diabetes. Imagine the sugar kind of Oh, great point. Hold on. I'll be right back again. This is definitely worth it. Hold on. Hold on.
Be right back. This is going to be This is good. I've never been able to do this before. This is solid good stuff. Hold on. I This will be worth it. 20 seconds.
I've had arguments in the past with people um say like when I get when I get a drink at a restaurant and then I'm like, "Hey, they gave me a regular Coke and I asked for a Diet Coke." And then people around the table taste it and they're like, "No, it's diet." And I'm like, "Bitch, I taste things for a living. It's I'm like literally I've won awards. I'm I've been hired by a company for my tasting abilities."
Okay. I'm a chief tasting officer.
I'm not going to say something. I'm not even going to bring it up if I'm not sure. So, I got these guys. They're called diet detector and I've never brought them to a restaurant before, but that's why I bought them to prove a point when [ __ ] be just giving me [ __ ] But in 60 seconds, I'll know if this bourbon is sugary or not.
You said, imagine the sugar content.
Let's find out. I suppose the only America the only way that this would be off is if the alcohol content in the product itself makes the test not work.
But we go.
It's blue and then [music] it should turn a shade of brown if it detects sugar again.
Says wait 60 seconds.
Be back in a couple days probably.
22 bucks. Holy balls. That's super cheap.
Honey is all different. Depends on bees collection. Honey is different in each state, which plants you take pollen from. No kidding.
Because I mean, some of them are super funky and earthy and kind of like yicky, right?
Sharp makes the best honey finishes.
I haven't had any of that stuff yet.
Spring harvest, late May through June, lighter delicate honey from fruit trees and early wild flowers. Summer harvest, peak season for clover, bass. I wonder if I like the spring harvest honey more.
Golden rod. That was my nickname back at the club.
It's going good, 49er fan. It's actually been going pretty shitty.
That is the funniest and pettiest thing I love. That just prove point. Oh, for sure. People tell me that I'm wrong about no one's stuff.
I'm wrong about a lot of stuff.
But I know when I taste sugar in a diet drink. All right, let's get into this.
This is two turn tea.
5% alcohol by volume iced tea with hint of lemon. [music] It is from two turnt a ridiculous influencer on the internet.
Um, he's probably been cancelled a thousand times. I'm not sure. But I saw this and I was like, "Hey, I do enjoy in the summertime a good iced tea." And I haven't had a good alcoholic iced tea since Mike's hard iced tea, but they discontinued that years and years and years ago. And Twisted Tea sucks balls.
So, I got this. And then I thought, what if I put this in [music] with this Green River honey and made like a honey iced tea combo?
Cuz I think that's actually a drink that you can make. I don't know. Let's give this a shot at first again.
Where is it from?
Manufactured New Hampshire. New Hampshire.
100 calories per can. Blah blah blah.
Ingredients: filtered water, alcohol from cold brewed sugar, cane sugar, citric acid, natural flavors, [music] disassium phosphate, and black tea.
Okay, hold on.
Oh [ __ ] The detector is [music] giving me signs of moderate risk to Yeah, I've tried this on other things like the proper 12 apple and [music] it didn't change at all. This is giving me.
[music] Yeah, it has changed.
Focus. Oh, come on. I know it's a [ __ ] You're so [music] little. You're so little. Oh, what if I do this?
Um, actually, even better. a piece of paper, an Ulta Beauty receipt.
So yeah, I would say it says that there is a moderate risk for sugar being present in this and it's [music] getting darker by the second. So the alcohol probably doesn't help these test strips at all, but it is showing that it's picking up on something in there for show. So yeah, if you're a diabetic, I probably avoid it at all costs. Probably. I'm not a doctor or scienceminded at all. All right. Two turnt.
I like that.
That's something I could drink on a pontoon boat all day. All day. And have the worst heartburn at night.
Very delicate. Not super sweet. Pretty tealike.
I dig it.
No trash sweeteners. Gluten-free. It's got electrolytes in it. Oh, that's very good.
I get my elect I get my electrolytes from Two Turn Tea. Can do a commercial for this stuff.
Plus, I like the colors. I like the retro colors. Mix the two-turn tea and the green. That was the point, Nick.
That's what I was going to do. That's a positive test, [laughter] Mark.
Oh my gosh.
It's not a urine test strip. Mark, get here on time.
That's not a THC beverage, although it would be funny.
hot spot should not Oh, yeah. And I certainly agree. But for tonight, we got to do we got to work with what we got to work with. So, I'm going to mix these two together. I got Oh, [ __ ] That melted real bad.
I've been trying to get my barrel to absorb water again so it's not as flimsy because it's been super flimsy and falling apart. So, I just put water on it. Oh, every once in a while. And look at look at a little bit of water and this [ __ ] is sucked it up and it's like super sturdy again. Super sturdy again.
America.
This might be the smartest thing I've ever done.
This might be the smartest thing that's ever happened on this channel.
[laughter] Oh yeah. [clears throat] Where's the stick?
Where's the stick? [clears throat] Oh yeah, two turn tea and green river honey.
I could use some lemon.
I could use some lemon.
[snorts] It's not tastes like melted ice. It's a bad idea.
Maybe with a a big cube. Yeah, it needs some lemon.
Definitely could use a little lemon.
Little bit of citrus in there.
But it is so honey forward. That tea really brought out the whole freaking honey.
I could rock that.
A little If I put a little lemon wedge in there, I could pontoon boat that.
Hells yeah. That's Listen, maybe not the smartest thing I've ever done on the channel, which I was anticipating could be the byproduct of that, but definitely not the dumbest thing I've done on the channel, cuz I've done some dumb stuff.
Green River Honey, good two-turn tea, pretty damn good together, not as good as I hoped.
>> [snorts] >> Matter of fact, it's kind of really ruining my time right now. Oh.
Oh, brother.
Oh, man.
Uh-uh.
We can do this.
Proper 12 in honey.
Irish apple.
Maybe that's [snorts] how I'll start shorts content [music] is just putting different things together to see if they're any good. Oh man.
No. Oh man, I regret that. That was a really regretful thing I just did. That is stickier than And wow.
Mixing a scoop of pre gel. That's a great idea.
high proof mix. Not just like Yeah.
Stream quality not great. Thrasher's here. Oh, hell yeah.
That's freaking music to my ears. I love it when Thrasher comes in.
>> It's Thrasher.
Don't touch your penis.
>> All right, man. Oh, man.
>> The pallet's very good.
Thrasher right now. Yeah, it's not good.
I I'm going to finish tonight with a little taste little taste of something.
What can we do? We have this stuff from Kings Family Distillery.
Which one haven't I opened yet?
Tennessee Standard Blended Bourbon Myron Nixon Barbecue Co. Kings Family Distillery American Blended Whiskey. By the way, I thought that Myron Nixon was something that [music] had to do with Jack. No, Myron Nixon's a barbecue guy.
I was so dumb. That's why I got them confused because I did the barbecue thing with Jack Daniels. Kings Family Distillery bourbon. Straight bourbon.
>> [music] >> King's family just doing rye. Ate your rye. Let's do this. Oh [ __ ] Yeah.
Let's finish the night with this. And then I really can't take whatever is in here.
What it tastes like seriously at all because my mouth tastes like honey and sugar and stickiness. But this should be eight years. 110 proof. Is it?
I don't know if I know a second that can America. That was not a great cork pull.
All right. Each day, get on there. Each day, our goal is to make sure everyone leaves happy and excited to share a bottle of our spirits at home with family and friends.
Meticulously prepared for perfect flavor, our spirits starting with carefully chosen ingredients from the best sources and are distilled with uncompromising standards. Do you taste that special something? That is the passion in our hearts from being from families that have been making spirits for generations, even when distilling was not exactly legal. Smooth spirits come from a secret knowledge of only found within our family history. Spirits distilled with high integrity and almost impossible standards can only come from a familyun shop. The Kings are always here for you and always have been. Well, [snorts] good to have a little royalty in your life. Kings Family Distillery at your right. Oh, yeah. I was going to see does this say distill? So, Indiana.
So, it's what I imagine is 8year MGP probably.
>> [snorts] >> Spicy.
Hold on. The nose needs to develop.
Needs to develop a bit.
Go. Stick it in the microwave and have lemon. I don't have any lemon. I got no lemon.
They do honey dry. 51454. I was going to say that that it was either the 955 or the uh 51%.
Mike a deuce, what's up, Mike?
How you doing? Friaking Mike a freaking deuce.
Yeah, this doesn't have the aggressiveness of the the 955 has. There have been some of the 51% MGP rides that I have not loved. Smoke wagon being some of them.
But this smells nice.
It is What is that?
Like a It's almost like a peppered steak, which is very strange. It might just smell like that because I'm so honeyed up at the moment. So sweetened up that anything not super sweet smells like freaking meat.
Yeah, but it smells like um like steak.
seasoned like a seasoned steak, peppercorns and such.
Yeah, that's hilarious.
Hold on a second.
I've never had such a clear thing happen in my mouth. That shouldn't shouldn't say stuff like that. That just happened.
Oh yeah, this is going to be great. It's going to be great.
Dang.
If you've been watching the channel for any period of time, you know that one of my favorite movies is Independence Day. [music] And I need to share the screen. Share it.
This is exactly what that what [music] I pictured in my head when I tasted that.
Night one switching to side winders moving in.
>> They that literally couldn't. There was a force field around my tongue of honey.
Like that [ __ ] just I felt it literally bounce off.
It was like like I it couldn't get through. It literally couldn't get through. There is a layer. It's a freaking force field of honey.
I love Independence Day.
Welcome to Earth.
I'm back. Such a good movie.
Yeah, this is good. I think I can't I took a second sip and I feel like it's starting to penetrate through the honey layer, but the honey layer is [music] been developed and it's working with non-earth origin like fuels or something. Um, alien technology on my tongue.
can't figure it out. And nobody will ever admit we have the technology, but [music] it's real.
It cannot be penetrated.
Nope. Oh, wait. That's a little more. It keeps washing it away little by little.
All right. Now, I'm happy. That is good.
Very warming. A lot of baking spices.
Wow, it broke through finally.
Three Three solid sips and it finally broke through the honey layer. That is nice. I like that a lot. The Kings Family Distillery stuff. Super pumped about it. They do some good good stuff over there. The 10ear bourbon [laughter] America. I go back and forth on.
Let's see if I can even taste it. This is one little taste and we'll call it a night.
I've got so much to do tonight. I have to edit the video for tomorrow, the weather single barrel video. Um, got to change our guinea pig cage with clean laundry, [music] clean up the house, dishes, [music] clean the kitchen.
I got to pull the couch out since [music] our children are savages and they just throw Pop-Tarts wherever they want and the ants found them. So, I'm at war with the ants around here.
Tonight's going to be a busy night.
[music] So, need to call it a night so that I can move on with my night and just pump it out.
Nothing tastes like it should taste like right now. Holy honey. Wow.
That's hilariously not what that tastes like.
That's right. We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We're going to live on.
We're going to survive.
This is Independence [clears throat] Day.
I I quote that movie a lot. Um like when you're driving down the road and a bunch of traffic is headed the opposite way and it's like David, we're the only schmucks trying to get in.
[snorts] Good grief. That thing went wild on my palette. That honey stuff tea.
Man, there's a reason. Do people still drink that? At what age do people stop drinking this?
Because I haven't had stuff like this in years and years and years.
And and it's obvious why. Heartburn, disgusting, sugary yiness.
>> [snorts] >> It is good on a pontoon boat, though. It just is.
All right, I'm going to get off this hot spot. I need to call Xfinity tomorrow and tell them how unhappy I am. I'm not good at that, by the way.
I go from zero to pissed-off softball coach real quick.
Where's he at? We didn't even play that yet. Here we go.
>> You guys need to quit crying.
>> Yeah.
>> You guys need to quit crying.
>> Independent Joe.
>> Okay.
You're dragging this game out.
>> I mean, you're crying about every single thing.
[laughter] >> That'll never get old. It will never get old. Yeah. Exfinity dropped the ball.
Um, [snorts] love this live. It's bad. It's so bad.
It's so bad. All right, I'm out of here.
Love you all so much. Let me think.
Let me look at the calendar real quick.
Um, next Friday. Next Tuesday. Let me see. This Friday will not be live. It's why we're doing it this Tuesday.
Next Tuesday is a possibility.
So, either next week, next [music] Tuesday or Friday, one of the two.
And oh, by the way, I did say this.
And and I have to actually tell you, I had a challenge with Kobe, Jason Kobe, and I told him the last week I was going to do five videos in 5 days, but I've had power supply issues with like the the plug that plugs into my computer. I've done this before, if you guys remember. And it's like kind of got to wiggle it to make sure that it's plugged in. And then issues.
It finally literally quit working. And then Kobe texted me last week. He's like, "Hey, how are the five videos in 5 days thing? How's that going, Porter?"
Like freaking I had already ordered the replacement power supply and I was hoping that it was the freaking plug [music] part and not the receptacle part that was a problem. Hoping it was this and not this because this is easily replaceable.
This, I don't think, is a great thing.
thing. I think that if it's this the part, that part is going to be like super expensive or not even worth replacing whatsoever. Then I was going to be effed. But it was seemingly this part because this part is not plugged into that part. The new this part and the new this part works really well kind of cuz the the top plastic piece of this part broke off. So now it plugs in, but then it kind of like goes like this. So I've got electrical tape now.
I couldn't edit videos last week, Kobe.
Which is why I bring that up is because I was going to say something about Oh, by the next time I live stream, I promise you, and by you, I mean all 84 of [music] you, that there will be a Matt Madness lineup. I will put it together by next time I live stream. Will that prevent me from live streaming? It might.
That just might. But by the next time I go live, I will have a Matt Madness lineup. Maybe not the bracket completed, but a date that it's going to start. I need to do it. It's going to happen. And that's me telling you. And the best way to make things happen is to tell 83 people that it's going to happen.
Also, I'm going to lose 10 pounds by the next time I talk to you. That's not going to happen.
Let's do 10 videos this week. How about that? Freaking Kobe.
[snorts] Oh, so I get two in five, but Kobe gets five for five. What the 15 months of counting? Matty P. Travis.
Yeah, I know. I'm not a great guy in my own mind.
I'll make it up to you guys. [music] I got to do it. I got to do it. And I'm not going anywhere. Bourbon channels might be disappearing left and right.
They might be taking a step back. They may be saying, "Sanara, see you later, baby." But guess what I'm doing?
Not that.
Will I ever have to drive a bus again?
Will I ever be forced to get a Colorado frigin commercial driver's license with air brake endorsements and passenger endorsements and have to drive a bus again? Might that happen?
Maybe. That would suck big balls. But this [ __ ] ain't going nowhere.
Hear that? I will be here. Never taken a step back, only taking steps forward.
And those steps might be itty bitty tiny little teeny weeny steps, but they're steps forward. And I'll be here till I'm old gray fatten smelling like dirty snacky cheese.
Like the armpit of Sean Paisley's knees.
Love you all. See you next week. I'm out of here. Good night. Good evening. Good day, sir.
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